i was driving for more than five years in
my home country before i came to the uk but it took me five attempts of the driving
test to finally pass in this video i'm gonna be sharing things i wish that i knew and
some tips that i learned along the way hi guys my name is Cissy and i'm a Ugandan
medical doctor in the uk and i took the driving test five times before passing that's
the uk practical driving test and guys it felt like it was even harder than
like club or all these other exams i just i don't know why but anyways so i'm going
to have 10 tips that i found really really helpful that finally helped me to pass the first step is
to keep calm you want to keep as calm as you can because i feel like something that really helped
me backwards suddenly i started getting anxiety when it was time for the exam like i've been doing
my practice and it was fine but then i would go for the driving test and i'd be so nervous i had
so much pressure on myself must pass can't fail but in the end i would end up failing because i
would be so nervous i end up making silly mistakes some level of that is good because it keeps you a
lot unaware and looking for danger which is fine but when it's too much then it's going to be like
a desired rating so find ways to keep as calm as you can personally i tried out everything that
i could i tried i basically did cbt on myself to be as calm as possible controlling my thoughts
i used grounding techniques i use a steering wheel or something to ground me and keep me
in the present moment and stop overthinking my next tip is to focus on one road at a time so
when you're doing a driving test try not to think and figure out where you're going when you know
that area like i did you start thinking that oh now we're on this round about where we're going
are we going here going there going this way and then you stop focusing on what you're doing which
is there and then so try and make sure that as you're doing a driving test try to make sure that
you can find a way to get yourself from the end of the road to the next just look at one road at
a time look at the next junction when you get there the next one hour when you get there try
not to be thinking too far in advance because at the end of the day i feel like this kind of helped
me back my next tip should have been my first one actually and that is get a good driving instructor
so i had a driving instructor who i felt like we didn't really get along so i didn't like his
tail so i felt like there was a bit of tension i was constantly on edge i wasn't comfortable
you know that kind of instructor that takes a driving wheel away from you that kind of person
that just raised my anxiety levels so i felt like that instructor was not a right fit for me so if
you go with an instructor and you feel like you're not getting along my advice is to just change
because when i change and i got a new driving structure honestly guys i sat a big difference
i was suddenly calm i was more confident like i knew what i was doing because i had been driving
remember but then this other instructor would bring out like a lot of anxiety in me and the
new instructor really really did a good job so my advice is to get a good instructor and also
follow what they tell you guys if the instructor thinks you're not ready you're probably not so
a few times with one of my instructors they were like i don't think you're ready and i insisted and
went and got a driving test and still i failed so probably follow what your instructor is saying if
you do trust them and you have a good relationship with them then follow the instructor's
advice my next tip is to do one hour lessons so i don't know about you but for me i had two
different structures and so for one time i tried doing two hour lessons and with another one of
these listeners and in a one hour lesson i felt like it was more helpful like in the one hour
we're able to drive around i'll do everything and in the two hours by the end of that one and a
half hours i'm exhausted and that you have to keep driving and then i'll start making silly mistakes
so really i found that the one hour lesson was the perfect time for me my next tip is to use youtube
videos there are loads of youtube channels i'll link a few below that i really liked one that
i really really enjoyed was conquer driving another one is called dgn driving and also crawley
driving so try and find driving instructors that have videos especially if they have a new
area because some areas do have so in the area where i live we do have youtube channels that
show exactly the big round about the tricky ones and so that way by the time you go in the lesson
to practice you don't have so much time wasted on the side of the road because you know there's
a lot of theory that you need to know you need to know about the exits the lanes and all that
so if you can try and learn as much as you can before going for your driving test it's going
to save you a lot of money because first of all you're not going to have a one hour lessons and
in like 30 minutes of the lesson you practice i said i wrote without explaining things so try
and get a lot of information prior to your exam i also followed a lot of their advice because they
explained exactly things that maybe sometimes the instructor has only one person but in the world of
youtube you can find so many different instructors find the one who you like and then get lots of
information because it's hard for one person to know everything but you can get so much more
information from very many instructors online my next tip is to try and unlock some old
hobbies so if you've been driving for a long time in another country like i was you're
going to have so many things that i need in you and you don't even realize that until you go
and the instructor is like what are you doing for instance i was constantly ever taken from
the left doing all kinds of things that were really normal back home but here you can really
get into an accident it's really unsafe so you're going to do a lot of practice because you're
going to start and online all those old habits and then learn new ones as well my next tip is
to use driving test cancellation app if you want or just keep refreshing frequently so personally
i used driving tests for all i used testy and i also used another one called driving test
cancellations and for each time i used each of them they did get me an earlier test the only
problem is make sure you do not have them all activated at the same time because then if you
do they might be antagonizing each other so use one at a time and just be patient and one other
time i just was so impatient and i just started to refresh on my own because there's a time where
you're waiting and you're not getting any tests and yet if you start you're able to get one on
your own using a driving test cancellation app is good but also refreshing on your own is also good
so i used to refresh all day every time i have a minute i would be refreshing i lived on the garb
the 2k website guys trying to look for a test date because it can be really hard to get it especially
if you have responsibilities you want to start driving as soon as you can so do try considering
either using the cancellation apps or refreshing on your own my next tip is to don't assume that
you have failed there's times where you see oh my god i think we're going back to the
test printer because you remember with the driving test now because of kovid once you make
a major error that is it you just you test ends you start going back to the test center so in
my final test which is the one that i passed i actually had failed because i saw the guy taking
me the roundabout that was taking me back and my heart was pumping but i was like let me just keep
calm and just continue and we passed the center and went to the other direction so you never know
so it's best not to assume that you have failed even if you think you fail just keep going because
you might not have you never know what's going on so if you think you're failed and then you act
like you have then you probably end up failing so just keep on driving stay calm and hope for
the best and my last tip guys also is don't assume that you have passed because in two of my tests
i failed at the last minute because i felt like yes i have passed this test i've done it you have
driven for the entire period and now we're going back to the test center at the end of the test
and i was just starting to celebrate in my head and i started paying attention and then i made
a mistake i think i i missed like a red light like some major era and that was it for me and
that was really painful because that particular driving test was like my best i had like no other
minors and just one major so guys do not assume that you have passed equally so just keep driving
and only know the test is over on your back to the test center and you've switched off the engine i
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