Failed Irish Full Driving Test

How did you get the grade 3 fail for turning right? Did you get stuck in a junction?

You seem to have a lot of issues with your general positioning of the car too and basically paying attention to the road markings and knowing where to be.

Looking at your scoresheet you really need a few pre test lessons. Bring the score sheet along with you so they can help you work on the items you need to focus on.

Oh yes of course! I missed the heading. Any time I see a grade 3 for turning right it's usually folks getting stuck in a junction or not proceeding into the right turning box.

4 faults for observation when moving off is something that you should easily be able to remedy. Now it's been a good few years since I did my test but my instructor always told me to exaggerate all my head movements when observing around me. Basically ensure they cannot miss every observation you make.

Your Grade 3 mark is an automatic fail, the two grade two's with 4 marks on each are both automatic fails too. The ten 1 mark grades are a fail too, so if you break it down like that it will be easier to improve on.

Yes, there is no B category testing in Ballincollig but there is everything else there, Wilton only does cars and nothing else.

Mallow and Skibbereen do everything apart from buses and trucks

Failure of the test arises when an applicant incurs any of the following: -

1 or more grade 3 faults.

4 of the same grade 2 faults for a single aspect.

6 or more grade 2 faults under the same heading.

9 or more grade 2 faults overall.

Based on the above pass/fail criteria it looks like you failed on multiple counts.

You should be sent an invitation to book a retest in the next six to eight weeks and there's typically a three to five week wait for a test appointment.

This gives you somewhere between nine and thirteen weeks to a retest. Use that time to get additional driving lessons, showing your driving instructor the fault sheet from your test to help identify the points you need to work on. Get enough lessons and practice for your instructor to be confident for your retest.

Official policy is for a different text examiner so it is unlikely your retest would be with the same examiner.

A few lessons will get you sorted and for you to know the away.

The instructor will have a good idea of the questions/etc asked.

You need to brush up on your positions and your mirrors.

Before my test when I was walking around in public I was pretending I driving checking my mirrors, indicating,etc( whilst trying not to draw attention to myself.)

Similar with signals.

Reactions to hazards can be anything really. An instructor could open your eyes to things in the area.

All your issues should be fine with a bit of support.

You might have the same tester again. They won't hold it against you.

They also tend to be very vague at the end of the test. They don't want to start a battle with somebody.

Hard luck.

Perfect

That’s not a failure, as long as you do what you are doing correctly and safely. The tester just has to guide you back on route

You should treat pedestrian crossings the same way as yellow boxes. That’s a tough one there though.

yes. All of them.

And they are all pretty important bar the first one.

Your book could be out of date for the first one but the other two have to be your book unless it’s from the 80s.

There are some great apps that do the signs well.

Like others have said just get going again with instructor and keep going until the next test. Ideally have a lesson the day of the test shortly beforehand so you can get all the nerves out of your system.

Best of luck with the next one!