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I did the fasting diet- only eating rice and potato and two boiled eggs the day before- and fasted for 12 hours beforehand, but apparently the test is inconclusive because my hydrogen started too high? It is conclusive for methane though. Also can anyone tell me how severe the methane is lol

It’s my first time so I was thinking I had a 50/50 chance of passing, but I literally never expected to fail this hard. I drove a whole test route with no notes from my dad just a few days ago and have no idea what happened between then and now. Six major faults!!!!!! In Sidcup

I had a really awful drive to to centre, my instructor was pretty harsh on me and I cut through a bus lane very slightly, then got stuck in traffic for half an hour and stalled twice while trying to go at 1mph in the traffic, and messed up the reverse gear by not pushing in the gear stick enough.

Immediately in the test there’s a hill-start onto a roundabout, and I was so distracted by the roundabout that I stalled and rolled backwards the tiniest amount. I stalled again and had to turn the engine on and immediately thought I had failed because of the tiny roll back and started crying literally 2 minutes into my test. I hadn’t failed!! It was just a minor!

Despite still crying (silently) and feeling completely shit, I carried on driving like normal, drove the massive roundabout and did a pretty good reverse bay park manoeuvre in an empty car park. I remember looking around as I reversed but mainly focused on the rear camera. Major fault for observation.

Driving out of the car park, I went right into a yellow box as a light changed infront of me. I literally saw the box and thought I was going to go straight past it, but the cars infront of me stopped immediately giving me no space. This yellow box was right at the exit of the car park btw, felt absolute shit because I KNEW it was a major immediately.

This might be my instructors fault but I didn’t know that they were going to pull me over 3+ times, I was confused and thought I was doing something wrong for him to ask me four times in two minutes. The first two times he said ‘don’t worry about blocking someone’s driveway’ but the third time he didn’t say it, and I blocked someone’s driveway. I asked him ‘is this okay?’ And he said no, you’re blocking someone’s driveway. The fourth time I pulled over it was so quick and I was so confused by the amount of times I had done it (on an empty road) that I forgot to check my blind spot. I did a lazy six point check that was more like 4 1/2.

He told me that there was a roundabout coming up, and I immediately saw someone to my right and stopped. No one was behind me. He said ‘what are you doing?? Why are you stopped??’ And I stayed stopped because I was still waiting for the car RIGHT on my right to go. Eventually I left and said ‘what was that? Was that a roundabout?’ And he said that it was a REVERSE PRIORITY roundabout. I had literally never heard of it. I was completely thrown off by him snapping at me and completely down about my driving.

Thirty seconds later, I turned and accidentally went into fourth instead of second and stalled on a steep hill. This felt the absolute worst. Someone was behind me by this point (maybe the same car from the roundabout) and I had to do another hill start on this incredibly steep hill that luckily went okay.

And then at some point during all of this I didn’t check a mirror properly at a turn.

I don’t think any of these were really ‘unfair’, obviously the examiner knew exactly what I was doing, but I still can’t believe I encountered a reverse priority roundabout for the first time on my test 😭😭

The fourth slide scares me the most