Not ready for practical driving test?
Hello, I have been at driving school for almost a year now and have taken a lot of driving lessons.
I've already done all my compulsory driving lessons, but my driving instructor still doesn't want to let me take the test because he thinks that the way I'm driving I'll fail the test. The fact that he keeps telling me that I'm not ready for the test is really eating away at my self-esteem. Because every time he tells me that I'm not ready for the test I imagine that I'm awful at driving… but I would say that I'm not awful at driving, I'm just insecure because he keeps telling me that I'm not that good at driving yet. And then there's the problem that I'm always in a kind of hypnosis when I'm driving (it's called dissociation) and that means I can't concentrate properly, which of course doesn't make driving any easier. I'm also currently afraid to take more driving lessons because I've already spent €3,000 on them, and it just won't stop. I can't keep paying you for this. Where am I going to get all the money from each time? I spend €100 on each lesson, and I'm afraid to take more lessons for fear that he'll say I'm not ready again, and then I'll have to spend money again…
What should I do? I just don't understand. I'm so desperate.
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Maybe the dog is buried here. Concentration in road traffic is one of the most important things you need. You need to quickly and comprehensively evaluate unexpected situations and react accordingly. If your instructor thinks that you don't get it (for whatever reason) his decision is correct.
Hmm, there are many options.
If you think that your driving instructor is talking to you rather badly, you should take a ride with another driving instructor and ask him for his opinion. If he thinks you're ready to check, it might help against the insecurity. I think that's what you should do first.
If you also see serious problems (the dissociation state), you will not be able to take as many training hours as possible, to overcome these problems as possible and then to go to examination. Because if the 12 months of the theoretical examination have expired, it inevitably starts from the front, then there was a lot of money for the cat. The only chance to avoid this scenario is to pass the test until then. And if that only goes by spending a lot of money on training hours until then, that's the way.
If you can't afford more training hours, you'll have to go to the exam as you are. It works or it doesn't work. Then the previous driving training was for free or not. Right, such a forced situation does not contribute to stress reduction. You'll have to swallow that. After all, stress means adrenaline, adrenaline sharpens the senses.
I hope you've carefully thought after the first 2-3 training hours, whether you'll get over this within an acceptable amount of training hours, or if you're shoving money into a black hole. Safe driving now requires concentration.
Unfortunately, I've changed the driving instructor on the one hand I didn't get clear with his kind and he always talked to me badly, he was pretty hard with his speech and then wanted to give me another driving instructor an opinion, but my current driving instructor says that I'm not ready yet…
You're not alone! My driving instructor is also totally scary and insecure. I'm a very nervous person anyway and insecure, and I really need to admit. I often drive well, but I have a lot of ears and then I make a mistake, it means I'm driving shit even if everything was good before. When this teacher got a week before examination, I was done so that I had chilled and failed. The next thing I had was a mistake, but you didn't let me through because I made a nervous impression! Have a next exam, but teacher finished me again so that I don't even know how to drive! My mother also says that the teacher completely insecures me. I've already used up all the savings, almost 5,000,– because I don't have anyone to drive privately. If you don't want to drive, you just have panic, don't sleep anymore, you just have a training with a lot of exams behind me, start working now and the theory is already falling. I don't know how the others get all this! Did you get the exam?