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Hi there smart drivers, Rick with Smart Drive Test.
Ooooooohhh, its test day. You can feel the
jitters, you can feel the anxiety.
Yes indeed! I had a comment from
Saber-toothed, he wanted me to do a mock
road test to show him and others what
they needed to do on road test day. On a road
test, remember the first principle:
breathe - in through the nose, out through
the mouth, and breathe all the way to
your navel. [DEMONSTRATING THE BREATHING TECHNIQUE]
This will help you to relax. It will help
you to relieve some of the tension and
some of the anxiety that you're going to
feel on test day. If you can relax you're
going to do better on your test. And I
know all about the jitters and all about
the anxiety because I've done no less
than a dozen road tests: different higher
class licenses, my car license when I was
16, and I had to do two or three tests
when I got my instructors license. Every
time I was anxious. Now keep in mind that
for the purposes of your road test, your
job is to take away the examiners right
to fail you.
That's all you have to do - nothing more,
nothing less.
And if you practice, practice, practice,
up until road test day, you're going to
do what you practice, and that's not
going to be a hard job. So stick around,
we're going to do a mock road test. We'll be
right back with that information.
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Hi there smart driver welcome back. Rick with smart
drive test talking to you today about
how to do a mock road test. The first
thing you need to do, is you need to show
up at least 45 minutes to 30 minutes
early for your appointment because you
have to go into the driving licensing
center and you have to check in. Now when
you come to the licensing center, make
sure that you bring identification -
you're going to need at least two pieces
of identification, and what I tell
students is to bring three pieces of
identification in case for whatever
reason one piece isn't accepted. So bring
three pieces of identification and don't
forget your money.
Yes, it's not free! You have to pay a fee,
whether you're at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), the MTO (Ministry of Transportation of Ontario) in
Ontario, or ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) here in British Columbia.
So make sure you bring money. As well,
before you leave in the morning, whether
you're with the school or you're taking
your own vehicle, make sure you do a
pre-trip inspection on your vehicle
before you show up for road test day.
Make sure all the lights are working, the
horn is working, the seatbelts are
working, the seats are secure.
Make sure all the rubbish is out of the
car, because you are not going to get an
examiner in your vehicle if you have--you know--
fast food containers up to the knees
in in the footwells of your vehicle.
So make sure you clean it out and keep
it clean.
It's going to leave a better impression
with the examiner. As well, leave Ruffy at
home - don't bring your pets, don't bring
the cat, don't have anybody else in the
vehicle. It is just you and the examiner. So when
you show up to the road test, you go in
and check in. Just one other note about
pre-trip inspection - if you're going with
the driving school, ensure that you ask
the driving instructor if in fact he or
she did do a pre-trip inspection on the
vehicle in the morning, because
oftentimes if you've got a signal our, for
example, or brake light they will not let
you go on a road test. But if you detect
that during the pre-trip inspection
before you show up for your road test
it's easily fixed and you can go for
your road test and it's not going to
create more angst on the day of your
road test. So you go in, check in, wait--often in the vehicle--the examiners
going to come out and find the vehicle - he
or she is going to go through a pre-trip
inspection with you. They're going to get
you to check the signals, the lights, the
windshield wipers and the horn. They're
going to get to do that little mini
pre-trip inspection. Oftentimes, what
they'll do is, they'll tell you to roll
down your window and they'll indicate
what they want you to do: left signal,
right signal, brake lights, those types of
things. If the vehicle doesn't pass a
pre-trip inspection they are not going
to take you out on a road test. And
unfortunately, I've seen that time and
time again waiting at test centers for
students to come back on licenses. And
one of the most awful ones I've seen is
somebody that show up with an Alberta vehicle--
and they're not required to have a plate
on the front in Alberta--they borrow their Uncle's
car or whatever. They show up and because
they don't have aplate on the front, in British
Columbia they can't go for the road test
because it doesn't pass standards that are
set out in policy by that licensing
center. So make sure you do a pre-trip
inspection. I can't stress that enough on
test day when you show up the licensing
center. Oftentimes there's going to be
designated parking - here in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada we
don't have designated parking, it's
street parking. And a lot of the smaller
licensing centers, it's going to be
street parking. They're not gonna have a
parking lot with their own designated
parking.But if they do have designated
parking for licensing exams,
make sure you back into the space
because you're just too nervous at the
beginning of the test. So back into the
space, and if you go with the driving
school they're going to make you
back in any way. That way it gives you a
bit of practice of where you have to
back in -hat way you can drive out at the outset of your test. At
the end of the road test, when you come
back, the driving examiner will make you back into the
space. here in Vernon, BC, Canada, I'm not going to
do that because it's street parking
and they don't have designated parking.
But know that at some of the center's
you're going to have designated parking
so make sure you park there for the
purpose of the road test
so the examiner can find you and take
you out on your road test. One important
note for road test day - if you make a
mistake
keep going. Don't dwell on the mistake
because if you dwell on the mistake
you're going to make more mistakes. So
just let it go - quickly carry on with the
road test. You do not stop until the
examiner--he or she--tells you to stop.
Otherwise just keep going. When you get
back to the examination office they will
indicate whether they saw it or not.
Because sometimes they may not even see
the mistake that you have made. They may
be looking out the window or thinking
about something else.
Oftentimes, there's a chance that
they didn't even see it, so just keep
going.
Again, as I said, we do what we have
practice, so if you practice, practice,
practice, up to road-test, you're going
to be great. As well, what they're going
to do - they're going to get in the
vehicle, the examiner is going to give you the
little spiel - they're going to tell you
that they will give you plenty of advanced