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Driving test - Churchtown

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  • 01-08-2006 3:16pm
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    MikeHunt
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    My sister's doing her test in the Chruchtown test centre next week, after booking herself in there thinking it was the same place as Rathgar!...
    Looking for some info on the possible routes etc. so figured some of you worldly people may have some experience.

    Obviously a pre-test or two from a local driving school would also help :rolleyes:


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    smash
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    I made that mistake too, I got churchtown and thought it was rathgar, I found out the night before..... I did a pretest that morning and then in the test he brought me up the back of Nutgrove, I passed though.


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    dubstub
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    Not sure of the route, I did the test in Rathgar and it was some time ago. However ISM in Ranelagh should know the route and their instructors are very helpful.


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    smash
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    I found the ISM in Ranelagh pretty rubbish actually. I'd reccomend RAC in rathgar.


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    manor15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭manor15


    Hi all,

    For sample driving test routes click on the link below

    http://www.irishmotoring.ie/shop/index_new.php?cPath=26

    Cheers


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    Torq
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭Torq


    Hi Guys,
    You probably won't like what I'm about to say but here go's anyway.

    I think people learning test routes is another contributing factor to our national bad driving skills. If you learn a route then you are not being fully tested on your ability as a driver. You have learned a route, not how to drive.

    Test routes should be completely random and possibly at a different, but near, test center than the one you apply to.

    I would say that being able to drive is the ability to adapt and react to driving in unknown situations, not the artificial spin around town that it is.

    I wonder how many people would pass their test if it involved navigating a multi storey carpark, doing several hill starts in said carpark and getting into and out of a parking space? Would the pass rate would be lower?

    Keep well,
    Torq


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    kikel
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    Torq wrote:
    Hi Guys,

    I think people learning test routes is another contributing factor to our national bad driving skills. If you learn a route then you are not being fully tested on your ability as a driver. You have learned a route, not how to drive.

    Ya got a point alright. When i did it in portlaoise 10 years a go my instructor showed me potential routes and place to the the turnabout and reverse around a corner. I got the easy "revevrse around a corner, if the other one i'd being practiceng came up i may not have passed


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