West Perth driving test 1 pm. The assessor is checking stop lights and indicators if they work.
A lot of times, they check tires as well. This time he didn't do the tires because he knows our
cars, and you know we always bring the cars that are roadworthy. When the assessor sits in the car,
they usually have a brief chat with the candidate explaining what's going to take place and how
they're going to give instructions and shortly, they're going to be leaving. Always deviate
around that white solid line, the stop painted white line. Otherwise, you'd lose points for
your path and losing points as soon as you start your driving test it's definitely not something
that we recommend. Please be advised that this is not a fixed driving test route. They can
take you anywhere they like, and this video is not a substitute for practising. So come
down here and practice as much as you possibly can, preferably with your driving instructors.
Your private supervisors will not be able to prepare you as well as a driving instructor
who specializes in the area. Turning left here. So now we're going to reenact what happened. So
this isn't the real test, you know, what you're looking at now. I recreated where she went,
and she passed with flying colours. Beginning stages of driving assessments are very important,
and that's where people lose a significant amount of points because they're still nervous,
and apart from speeding, flow can be critical because people are over-cautious, thinking that,
you know, slower they drive and, you know, slower they blend into the traffic, the more points they
will score. But it's quite contrary, they lose the most amount of points on flow if they are over
cautious, you know, if they check everything twice three times for no reason. And that way, they
will inconvenience people that are behind them. So you've got to think of other road users. Make sure
you don't go about 50 kilometres an hour here, and don't step on a wide solid line. You can only
cross the wide solid line in case of an emergency. Check for pedestrians if someone's stepping into
the Pedestrian Crossing, just make sure you give way to them. At the next traffic lights,
they turned right towards Wellington Street. Some would say this is pretty unusual driving
test route in West Perth because not many people have experienced it, and this is why I decided to
shoot this video. If you get stuck at traffic lights, it's a good thing because the longer
you stay there, the less opportunities to make potential mistakes there are. At the moment,
it looks like we're too far from a car, but it's super wide angle, so it's just seemingly too far,
but it's actually not. So now we're turning right here. If they ask you here to turn right at the
next set of lights just end up in the right lane rather than going over to the left lane and then
changing in which case, they would mark you for performing two maneuvers instead of one. When
you turn right it's best to end up in the right lane because a lot of times there's a green arrow
in the left lane specifically for people turning left, which is the situation at the moment. So see,
everyone's lining up in the right lane and there's a green arrow up there so you wouldn't want to
block the traffic. So just make sure if you've got a red light for straight, and if there's a green
arrow just stay in the right lane. Wellington Street is 60 kilometres an hour speed limit, so keep an
eye on your speed. Now, if you get a warning, if you get a speed warning it doesn't mean that you
automatically fail your driving assessment. If you accidentally go five kilometres above they're not
going to fail you on the spot, you're going to receive a speed warning but don't freak out. There
are always parked cars in the left lane so it's probably the best idea to stick to the right hand
side lane because there's no point switching lanes every, sort of, couple hundred meters or. So from
here they went straight ahead through the first set of lights, I believe it's Collin Street.
He asked her to turn right at the next set of lights. So when they ask you to turn right
you need to switch lanes without them saying specifically that you need to change lanes
especially when the right lane is the only turning lane. They'll always give you plenty of notice but
you've got to make sure that you change at least a couple of hundred meters before. It's very likely
that you're going to get stuck here as well so just relax, think about things that you're doing
right here and right now, rather than thinking about car park because you haven't even got there.
We can go straight over to the left-hand side lane because there was only one single turning
lane to the right so you can pick any of the two lanes. If you're lined up in the right and then
changed separately, they would potentially mark you down for performing two maneuvers instead of one.
Thomas Street is one of the busiest streets in Perth, so if you take this driving test route you
can expect that you can get stuck at least a few times at traffic lights. But don't stress about it.
Once again, it's a bonus, so we're turning left here now. We have a few roundabouts here so you've got
to know how to handle roundabouts you've got to know when to indicate when you exit roundabouts
and also when to start to anticipate the traffic, you know, when you're approaching roundabouts. That
is a very important aspect. You can check some of the videos on that topic on our Channel. This is
one of many roundabouts on Railway parade. Slow down significantly, it's slightly downhill and
also, it's pretty tight. Anticipate any traffic from the distance and make sure you give way. It's 50
zone here so, don't go above 50. just practice doing certain speed limits. It feels different
when you're doing 50 versus doing 60 or 70. Try it. As you can see the car in front of us is going
really fast and, you know, don't get carried away so this is a 50 zone okay. A lot of candidates get
anxious thinking that they may have misheard the instruction or didn't hear the instruction at all.
If the assessor is not asking you to turn so it means that you are continuing straight ahead. Don't
assume and ask them every two seconds, am I going straight, am I going straight so you're going to
just keep going straight until they say that you need a turn somewhere. Not much to do here other
than keep an eye on your speed. We've got another roundabout, slowing down significantly. Give it a
good deep look to the right hand side because opposite direction is within your peripheral
vision pretty much within sort of two or three hundred meters before you got to the roundabout.
Occasionally they might ask you to do a reverse parallel parking here if it's not too heavy
traffic, but if not here, they're probably going to do it just around the corner. Oftentimes they ask
you to turn right just before the traffic lights which is McCourt street, so this little
street is McCourt Street make sure you give away to everybody from the opposite direction. Never
underestimate the speed of the oncoming traffic because if you're doing zero and they coming at 60
or 50 kilometres an hour, it's a huge difference in speed. This is a street where they can do
exercise lift some behind or reverse parallel parking a lot of times. If they ask you to
reverse parallel park make sure you position your car quickly and, you know, start your maneuver as
quickly as possible without too much delay. We fast forwarded here a little bit, so we don't waste time
on explaining. We've got separate videos on how to reverse parallel park properly, so check those out.
Now, we're heading towards Cambridge Street and we are going to do the exercise stopping for shopping
at Wembley IGA. So we're turning left here, so what's important here that uh we have to make
sure that we can turn safely without interfering with any traffic. Now, if the left lane is empty we
should go to the left lane. See, there was a car in the right lane, which just passes, but you've got to
be very accurate with your path. You can't slightly overshoot and partially go to the right lane
because that would potentially cause an accident. As soon as you realize there are parked cars in
the left lane, if you happen to be in the left lane, you should change lanes as soon as possible. As I
mentioned previously do not expect the assessor to tell you the change lanes because that's something
that they are not going to instruct you to do. Cambridge Street can be extremely busy as
well, so if you get stuck at lights, you can have a chat with the assessor, just relax, you know, chill,
don't think about, you know, anything negative try to ruthlessly eradicate negative thoughts.
We're getting closer to Wembley IGA which is just on the corner of Jersey Street and
Cambridge Street. By the way, this is one of the most difficult intersections, there's no
green arrow here, so you would have to do this properly. Check out our video on how to turn
right at the major intersection without a green arrow. So now, we're turning right into a car park.
We have a separate video on this car park and what to do here. Be prepared to encounter some
sloppy drivers in this car park because that's what people report. Be courteous, be prepared to
give why even if you don't have to. A lot of times they ask people to reverse park on the
right-hand side. Most of the times, they will do it in this section of the car park which
is a lot quieter, and there's no exit on this side. So don't stress too much it's not too
difficult. Line up nicely, observe properly and do any adjustments if necessary as you reverse.
We fast-forwarded it here as well, so we don't waste too much time. This is just a driving test
route, one of the potential driving test routes, rather than explaining how to reverse park
properly. I'll put the entire playlist on how to reverse park in the description of this video.
We're turning right towards Cambridge Street again and we are going to turn left on Cambridge Street.
So be aware of any traffic coming on your right hand side, and also pay attention to any cars
that might be parked on the left-hand side in the left lane. It's very unlikely that the left lane is
clear at any time of the day. Now we're going to go straight over to the right lane because there's
clearly a car parked in the left lane. So why would we do two maneuvers instead of one? Which you would
surely get marked down for. So just ensure that you observe prior to, obviously, making your turn
and committing to turning, and then that way, you'll be able to make a better decision. So we'll turn
left here to do an exercise left something behind. So a lot of times, they take you to any of these
streets of Cambridge Street this is, I believe Essex Street. When they say I can't like you to
pull over on the side of the road wherever you feel is safe. It's got to be your choice. They're
not going to say exactly where, what and how. They will just give you a simple instruction, stop on
the side of the road or pull-over on the side of the road or park on the side of the road wherever you
feel is safe. Don't be indecisive, take the first available spot. Park on the side of the road and
wait for the next instruction. We're going to fast forward this one as well refer to our videos and
exercise lesson but I've got at least about eight videos on this particular topic now we're turning
left back on Cambridge Street and we're heading back down towards the licensing center we're
cruising at 60 kilometers an hour currently we're in the left lane because there's no parked cars
when stopping at the red light make sure you don't overshoot the wide solid line now we seem a little
bit further again because it's a super wide angle and it does look a little bit unrealistic we've
got a car parked we need to change lanes then I'm going to give you instructions to change lanes so
when you spot the car that's parked on the left hand side you've got to indicate and mirror and
check the blinds but again you know if you're changing back to the left lane do the same so
cruising at 60 kilometers an hour just watch out for any change and you know speed limits there's
emerging traffic on this street very shortly indicating mirror blind spot roughly where the
line runs out so maybe about one one and a half lengths of your car before the line runs out you
would check your blind spot a lot of times people check it like 50 meters before and they come back
from the test and they say I swear I checked it you need marking me down for not checking
but it depends when you know and where you check so if you did it 50 meters before it's not going
to count so you've got to do it roughly where the line expires if there's a line if there's
no line just see where the road starts to narrow down we're heading straight down towards Loftus
Street and shortly we're going to be going back to the Department of Transport some of the sections
we've fast forwarded tests usually goes for about 35 minutes roughly and if you come back sooner if
you come back like in 10 15 20 minutes it's never a good sign So currently we're in the left claim
but if the assessor asks you to turn right at the next set of lines it's best to change lanes
at least about a couple of hundred meters before you get to the traffic lights depending on the
traffic if it's really busy traffic you would even do it a little bit sooner now in this situation
we're going to stick to the left turning lane out of the two turning Lanes unless the assessor
R should have turned right shortly after in this situation we're going to be turning left at return
right here so there will be two two lanes where you can go from this Lane you can go to the far
left lane here because the left turning lane could have gone to the center lane and the far left line
and the right lane only could have gone to the far right now here we're turning a left back on Royal
Street and you shouldn't worry about cyclists in the cyclist Lane unless you overtook one we always
get questions what about circus should I check the blind spot as I'm transiting to the added Lane not
unless you slow down significantly surprisingly a lot of candidates Miss pedestrians watch out for
pedestrians you know any time when you're turning even if there's no pedestrian Crossing you way
to pedestrians when you're turning okay we've passed the first entry towards the Department
of Transport so this is the exact route that this particular assessor took this young lady for her
driving assessment at the next set of lines we're going to be turning left once again what you have
for pedestrians here especially during the PKR traffic so they turn left here and proceeded
towards the department of transports car park I want to mention that when you turn left here that
they may take you on the freeway as well so if they do it's not going to be a long drive they
usually ask you to exit at the next exit which is Vincent Street in West Perth so if you're lined
up in the center lane with a straight arrow that would take you to freeway during this assessment
they went on true Street and returned back to the DBS there are parked cars on the left-hand side A
lot of times it's best to stick to the right hand side lane if there are parked cars also there's a
merge and make sure that you don't indicate too soon because there's a street coming up on the
left so you might mislead somebody so now when you pass this street you would indicate left
and merge quickly but slow down significantly here because it's 90 degree corner and a lot of
times people fail literally in the last seconds of the driving assessment this is back to the
real driving test that's when they came back so the car park was pretty full at this stage and
you know it was it was about 20 to two so the test started about one you know maybe they left
about three minutes past one so she's reversing a lot of times they ask you to park forward there
but this time the assessor decided to ask this young lady to reverse bug she had to correct
it but still she scored every point there so she ended up a little bit on an angle but still as I
said sir did say per completion of her test that she's capable she you know sees things she didn't
let anything important slip her eye and she passed with almost clean sheet as always please feel free
to ask any questions in the comment section below thanks for watching, and I'll catch you next time.