I just failed my driving theory test. Also known as 'the easiest test in the world', it is impossible to fail unless you have something wrong with you. Eh? How did this happen? I have two degrees - two! - and an IQ of well over 190. Actually that's not true, I don't know what my IQ is, because only stupid people take IQ tests. But I know it is high enough for me to be able to pass the easiest test in the world.
Yeah, it's my own fault. I've spent the past three days sitting on Warren's sofa learning to play 'Walk the Line' instead of revising. I know, I know, but everyone kept reminding me that this theory stuff is 'mostly common sense'.
"Let me guess," says John. "There were no Johnny Cash questions in the test?"
No, no there weren't.
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So all the questions were about the Clash and Radiohead?
ReplyDeleteStupid driving test. Not even a question about One Piece At A Time.
I passed my first test in Michigan and failed the one I took in Florida a year later because I didn't know that it was law that you can't drive without shoes on here.
ReplyDeleteThey ask tarded questions so they can charge you to take it again. At least I'm telling myself that.
You mean you couldn't find somebody to pose as Annie and take the test for you? Didn't you offer them a big enough chocolate cake?
ReplyDeletehehe, I failed mine the first time, too. Agree with She Likes, they ask tarded questions :þ
ReplyDeleteThe lack of Johnny Cash questions is why Britain no longer rules the world.
ReplyDeleteI passed my theory and driving tests 100% (both are done on the same day in the States). Later that afternoon I totalled my dad's car.
They have to fail a percentage of people.... you just happened to fall into the unlucky category....
ReplyDeleteI think they pass 4 fail 1... if 3 other people are smiling ... your screwed.
Don't worry, its not the easiest test in the world and they do ask 'tarded questions that are designed to throw you off.
Elf.
Just come back to the low lands - you won't need to drive - you can cycle everywhere! Anyways I too failed my first theory test so you're in good company! Mind you the Dutch theory test is ridiculously hard and involved horrible puzzles like pictures of an intersection with a tram, a car, a cyclist, a horse drawn carriage, a tractor and a chicken all arriving at the same time and you had to answer in what order they had priority!
ReplyDeleteAs your friend I should say something nice and supportive about them always throwing in a 'curve ball' question, or like SLIL said, they want you to fail first time to pay for it again. But really Annie, I don't want to lie to you. Tut tut young lady!
ReplyDeleteI miraculously passed both my driving and written test in the state of Wisconsin at the tender age of 16 (1 day after the first big snowstorm of the year too thank you).
ReplyDeleteBut when I moved to California at age 25 I felt like a total tard taking the written test:
Did you know that children up to six years old weighing less than 60 pounds "must be secured in a federally-approved child passenger restraint system and ride in the back seat of a vehicle"? (Six year old in a car seat, really? Should I turn in my mom?)
You know why I didn't know that? I don't have kids and I don't let them in my car! Shouldn't that question be on a parenting test (administered to Britney Spears) instead of on my driver test?)
Depressingly, it's not even the 1st of April.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking it was Cash sang 'I drove all night', but actually it was Roy Orbison. So maybe an Orbison repertoire might work better for you.
ReplyDeleteQ: what do you do to prove to the traffic police that you're sober?
ReplyDeleteA: I walk the line!
That test is a money making scam if you ask me. The questions are designed to be ambiguous. Grr!
ReplyDeleteAdd me to the list of first time failures too. I moved to CA and the test was a lot more difficult! With my head hung low I went out to eat lunch, actually read the manual, returned and passed...
ReplyDeleteMy IQ actually is pretty high. This has helped me not one jot with anything.
ReplyDeleteI'm so old that there was no such thing as a theory test when I learned to drive. I was, and continue to be, a shit driver though, so take heart, Annie. It took me four goes to pass my test!!
ReplyDeleteMeh. Those tests are designed to be retaken.
ReplyDeleteAt least you were doing something productive, not just sitting round looking at the internet/interfering with yourself.
i passed first time, and then discovered that i didn't actually need to do it at all because my (stolen) provisional licence from a bazillion years ago made me exempt.
ReplyDeleteFAIL.
If its any consolation my degreeful sister failed hers too. And clocked her face on the door on the way out. WHAMMY!
ReplyDeleteLesson; not dropping out of college may result in immobility and black eyes
"At least you were doing something productive, not just sitting round looking at the internet/interfering with yourself."
ReplyDeleteHaha. You'd think.
Thanks for all your encouraging / empathising words. I don't have enough time to take another test in England unfortunately so I guess I'll be a loser for another 6 months or so. Cowabunga.
Did you ever go back and do the test again? I did it today and missed by one question.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if I will book again or take the easy option and fly back home to do the test there.
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ReplyDeleteI've failed my theory test twice and Im due to go back and do it again on the 27th of this mounth. Im not stupid and its not a simple test, some of the questions are just ridiculous. I gave my grandad a mock practice theory test and he failed with 35 out of 50. Hes an extremely clever man, who has been driving for over 60 years. Hes been a taxi driver a driving instructor in the army and he owned a funeral transport business. So if hes thats experienced why couldn't he pass a simple theory test? Because the questions are made up of absolute rubbish and its all about luck what you get at the test center, you could be given really horrible questions or real easy ones. They have thousands of questions how are you ment to revise them all? Its a money grabbing scam because they know if you learning to drive you've already got that far, and you have no choice but to go and do it again.
ReplyDelete"Umm, your IQ means squat all if you don't revise thoroughly as you suggested yourself. If you revise well then you can't fail. It's impossible. I just passed mine today first time round [I'm from London, England] and I'm well chuffed. I got 49/50 for the multiple choice section and 61/75 for the hazard perception part. Both tests were much easier than those on the two offical DSA CDs IMO. I still hold the feeling that the hazard perception test should be revised. I mean, you get penalised for having too quick a reaction, and there are hazards which the software doesn't recognise and this can obviouly be problematic if you happen to miss out the ones that have been programmed. I didn't like revising for the hazard perception test at all. Anyways, I'm glad I passed and I didn't waste any money! Being 20 years old this means that I'm one step closer to FREEDOM!"
ReplyDeleteBtw, I memorised everything in like 3 months. :)
Hi,
ReplyDeleteSo have tried it one more time.
yes theory test is bit easy if we prepared for it otherwise its become difficult to pass.
I hope you have passed it in second time and you have prepared for it