Poll: Did you pass your driver test the first time?

[Drew Dowdell]

Answer honestly.

[RjION]

Yes................ a simple 100% on both.

[Delta Force79]

Passed on my first try without ever taking driver's ed. I learned how to drive around age 5, and have been driving ever since then.

[G. David Felt]

Yes, I learned at age 12 to help my dad move cars around his garage that he worked on for customers. Still took drivers ed as it is required in Washington state even back in the late 70's to be able to get a drivers license. Passed the written 100%, missed 1 item of all the items they test you on when actually driving. Your allowed to miss two and I was pissed when the tester failed me for parallel parking as he said I was not the required 6" from the curb. I was madder than hell as I was straight and close and he felt it was not good enough and yet how many people can really parallel park. I am crazy about the details. Was so pissed with him.

But I got my license and took off out of there and went for a nice long ride in my 76 Series 5 LUV truck! Bad Ass Truck it was.

[z28luvr01]

Passed the written with 100% the first time. Passed the road test on the third try.

Go ahead, laugh.

[ocnblu]

Yes I did, I'd been driving for several years before turning 16. Farm life. Middle school bus driver was also deputy sheriff and he wagged his finger at me one day because I was late and drove my uncle's pickup about a quarter mile on public road to catch the bus with my cousins.

[cletus8269]

missed three questions on the permit test and had points deducted on the driving test for engaging the turn signal once i came to a stop at the stop sign. in fairness i was distracted because the road ended and you either had to turn rt or lt and in the yard ahead was a candy apple read 57 2dr chevy hardtop.

[Robert Hall]

I had learner's permits when I was 14 and 15, passed my driver's test and got my license at 16. Spent time in the summers practice driving w/ my Dad in '79 Dodge Power Wagon 4x4, '84 Ford Escort diesel, and '84 Lincoln Town Car. Took my road test in the Escort as it was the easiest to parallel park.. Never been a fan of parallel parking, I do it so rarely. With my Jeep I'm either 6-8 inches from the curb or up on the curb....

[NeonLX]

Yeah. Drove all kinds of stuff on the farm starting around age 8 or 9. First vehicle I remember driving was my brother's 1948 Willys CJ2A. Got my first car at age 12; drove it home from a relative's house in town on the backroads. Didn't licensed it because we never saw a sheriff's car within miles of our place. Simple times, they were...

Another true story...the kid from the neighboring farm and I were the last ones to get dropped off by the school bus. The dude who drove it had only been out of high school a few years. One afternoon, he asked if we wanted to drive the bus. Well, of course we did. Had a great time hustling down the old gravel roads in that bus. It was a Chevy C/60 conventional, IIRC...had a 4-speed trans with 2-speed rear axle. Split shifts, baby!

Edited November 13, 2012 by NeonLX

[G. David Felt]

I had learner's permits when I was 14 and 15, passed my driver's test and got my license at 16. Spent time in the summers practice driving w/ my Dad in '79 Dodge Power Wagon 4x4, '84 Ford Escort diesel, and '84 Lincoln Town Car. Took my road test in the Escort as it was the easiest to parallel park.. Never been a fan of parallel parking, I do it so rarely. With my Jeep I'm either 6-8 inches from the curb or up on the curb....

Greatest thing about SUV's is the ability to drive up on the curb with the front tire and pop down and be nice and close without a bunch of hassle with the back and forth of traditional parallel parking.

Yeah. Drove all kinds of stuff on the farm starting around age 8 or 9. First vehicle I remember driving was my brother's 1948 Willys CJ2A. Got my first car at age 12; drove it home from a relative's house in town on the backroads. Didn't licensed it because we never saw a sheriff's car within miles of our place. Simple times, they were...

Another true story...the kid from the neighboring farm and I were the last ones to get dropped off by the school bus. The dude who drove it had only been out of high school a few years. One afternoon, he asked if we wanted to drive the bus. Well, of course we did. Had a great time hustling down the old gravel roads in that bus. It was a Chevy C/60 conventional, IIRC...had a 4-speed trans with 2-speed rear axle. Split shifts, baby!

That reminds me of the Ford Pickup I had with 3 on the Tree. I used it for my drivers license test and I remember the guy who tested me, besides being a jerk was surprised to see a truck like that. Guess he did not get around many types of trucks.

3 on the Tree was awesome to drive. I do miss those trucks.

[A Horse With No Name]

I passed it on the first try, wife passed it on the first try, and son passed it on the first try with a 100 percent on the written and a perfect on the driving portion.

Actually thought of C SPEC when my son passed his...he used my Miata, and the female instructor was really imnpressed that my son was taking the test with a manual shift. Instructor gave him a very rare perfect on the driving portion...then it turns out that she was a car nut and a SAAB fanatic, so they spent the next 45 minutes after the test discussing vintage SAAB rally cars.

Too cool IMHO and too true!

[Z-06]

100% written and First Time Driving.

[balthazar]

I had driver's ed thru my HS, but never drove prior to that. I asked my father repeatedly, but he wasn't down for that sort of thing. :/

Somewhere I have the driver test card, IIRC I passed (first time) with a grade of 93, and I know I passed the written 1st time.

[NeonLX]

I loved three-on-the-trees...or threes on the tree...or however you pluralize it. My '55 had it and with just a little practice, I figured out how shift up and down without using the clutch (taking load off engine/tranny when going up, and revving engine up to match speed coming down). Never impressed any chicks with it, but had fun anyway...

[Intrepidation]

Passed first time on both. Driver's Ed no doubt helped. I'm quite good at parallel parking.

[Lamar]

I failed my permit test the first time. Stopping distances. Nailed it the second time.

My behind-the-wheel instructor actually didn't test me the first time 'cause he said I made too many mistakes to pass. Nailed it the second time.

[Camino LS6]

Yes on both tests.

I didn't care what the score was as long as I passed, so I don't remember how well I did for sure.

I think I may have missed one question on the written part, and I think the driving part was perfect.

But I couldn't swear to that.

[Lamar]

Meant to add:

I failed my permit test the first time by one question. Stopping distances. Nailed it the second time.

My behind-the-wheel instructor actually didn't test me the first time 'cause he said I made too many mistakes to pass. Nailed it the second time.

[daves87rs]

Passed them both the first time...

Scary part about the driving test was that it was in a mid 90s escort.....after never driving a 4 banger before. This after driving a 350, 305, then a 3.1 V6...

I thought something was wrong with the car...

[NeonLX]

I thought something was wrong with the car...

There was. Lots of things.

[G. David Felt]

I thought something was wrong with the car...

There was. Lots of things.

That is an understatement. The only good model was the 91 Escort GT built by mazda which was a great pocket rocket, but was attacked by the insurance industry.

[Justin Bimmer]

Passed C B and A class all on first try.

[Robert Hall]

I thought something was wrong with the car...

There was. Lots of things.

That is an understatement. The only good model was the 91 Escort GT built by mazda which was a great pocket rocket, but was attacked by the insurance industry.

That era of Escort had those awful motorized seat belts, though. The '84 Escort I learned to drive in and drove to school some was a 5dr diesel w/ a 5 speed, and 52 horsepower! It felt faster than the '86 Mustang LX 4cyl I had, which was a 4spd manual w/ only 96 hp...

[G. David Felt]

I thought something was wrong with the car...

There was. Lots of things.

That is an understatement. The only good model was the 91 Escort GT built by mazda which was a great pocket rocket, but was attacked by the insurance industry.

That era of Escort had those awful motorized seat belts, though. The '84 Escort I learned to drive in and drove to school some was a 5dr diesel w/ a 5 speed, and 52 horsepower! It felt faster than the '86 Mustang LX 4cyl I had, which was a 4spd manual w/ only 96 hp...

Yea it had the mazda motorized seatbelts but it did not bother me.

[caddycruiser]

Yes, no issue.

In Delaware, you do everything for driver's ed in high school as a semester class. Depending on your birthdate, you drive in staged sessions on more than one occasion. Passed perfectly doing this, including parallel parking. At the time we had a new 2000/2001 Mercury Sable LS new car, in addition to a Plymouth Breeze.

The written test is also taken in school. Then once done after the test passed & driving checked off, you get a card from school, take that to the DMV and they give you your license.

Glad I got to do it in Delaware and not elsewhere. Easy process.

[Robert Hall]

Besides driving around in rural Ohio on my learner's permit w/ my Dad, I also took a driver's ed class in my high school in S. Florida. The school cars were a couple early 80s Chevys--a Celebrity and an Impala, IIRC. Both tan 4drs.

[Drew Dowdell]

I got a 95% on the written (missed a distance from firehouse street parking question) and aced the driving part. I took it in my mom's '94 Bonneville because though I owned my Toronado at that point, it wasn't registered yet. After getting my license, I went and registered the Toronado.

[NeonLX]

Probably shouldn't admit this, but I kinda sorta liked the early Escort wagons. We tried stuffing a 351C under the hood of one but the back wheels came up off the ground. Probably should have gone mid-engine with it, eh?

[SAmadei]

Passed both the written and driving test on the first shot.

Only thing that irks me to this day... I was confidant I aced the test... after all, I was in the top of the class, am VERY good at taking tests, the material was simple, and some of my stupidest friends aced it. I got my test back and found I had barely passed. Unfortunately, we only got a score back, not the entire test. Either I screwed up filling in the little ovals... or, as I am more convinced, since people knew I would have scored well, someone swapped my test... the test was administered by a bunch of phys ed teachers of questionable interest in seeing that things were done right... and it wouldn't surprise me to find that certain sports-orientated people might have access to the tests before they were submitted. In any case, since I passed, retaking the test was not an option. I have taken other unofficial driving tests over the years without prepping and aced them.

[MyerShift]

Yes, I did pass my first time!

Took my road test in my (great grandmother's then) 1988 Dodge Aries LE!

[NeonLX]

The driver's ed car in my very rural high school was a 1970 Phord LTD. It was actually the instructor's personal car that the school paid for the use thereof. First day out, a girl named Lois put the thing in a ditch. Yikes.

[oldshurst442]

Yes.  Passed my theory test and the actual driving test on both of my first tries.

In Quebec, there are three parts to the theory exam and... nobody gets 100% because as soon as you get to the minimum passing grade, off you go to the next part.   I forget what the percentage is per part, I think its 75%.  So if there are 20 questions per part, one needs to answer 15 questions right.  As soon as one answers 15 right, off to the next part.  If one gets 6 answers wrong. Bye Bye.  One could answer 15 correct answers in a row and one could get 6 answers wrong in a row.  

On my first two parts, I got no answers wrong. On the third part, I answered everything correct in a row and just needed 1 more, but then I got 4 or 5 wrong in a row and the sweats started going.  But I got the following answer right and the thoeory part done with. 

 My driving test was a breeze.  

 

I think my wife past on her 1st tries.   My daughter as well.   She got her driver's license just before the summer started and past both on her 1st tries.  My son just started doing his driver's ed.  Hopefully he too, will be like his sister and parents. 

[trinacriabob]

How did I not see this?

Perfect score on the driving portion.  Possibly 1 or 2 wrong on the multiple-choice written portion.

This was in California and the lady I did the driving test with reminded me of a Hispanic Diana Rigg lookalike.  I couldn't believe how nice she was for being a bureaucrat.  Some DMV employees can be surly.

I was ready.  I had had my permit for 6 months to a year.  Driving meant freedom!  I've driven myself across the U.S. and back in my 20s, so I put my license to good use rather fast.

[riviera74]

Passing the written test was easy.  The driving test was somewhat harder, but that was because the monitor insisted that 30mph really should be 25mph because he could not really see the odometer very well.  That took a few days, but I did pass that test.

[oldshurst442]

2 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

How did I not see this?

Because its a thread that is 10 years old.  

I brought it back from the dead a month ago...   

Sorry?

or maybe its... your welcome?  

[surreal1272]

Passed both the first time but the weird part of mine was the fact that the lady that rode with me during my driving test just happened to be my uncle's ex-wife (they divorced before I was born so I never knew she even existed lol). Didn't know who she was until my dad told me, after the driving test. Probably a smart move lol.