Failed driving test

Failed driving test... sian... lady luck not on my side yesterday. firstly, waited at wrong place for warm-up, thus about 5 mins late. My warm-up vehicle also came back late. Did warm up at circuit first, quite smooth except for vertical parking, i position the car too much to the right. still manage to get in w/o hitting points but a bit nearer to the left. not much time left after i have done the circuit. For road, i only go thru' 1 round before going back to centre. Went to the room for balloting. Was terribly nervous at that moment. When my name was called, i drew from the box and ballot the test route for other candidates. I didn't get into my mind which test route i was going. i wanted to ask the traffic police but afraid that i would get hammered by them for not paying attention. Anyway, i thot the test route number not that important cos i didnt really know all the test routes well and tester may also change the route depending on traffic condition.

It was a malay tester who took me. I don't have to start the engine cos the key was inside the car. Seeking the advice from the instructor on sun to do it slowly, i did well for circuit, except for reversing up the ramp, the left wheel didnt go up so have to reverse and do it.

After that, went out to do test route. need to turn right at gate but instruction was given so early that i turn right towards the petrol kiosk instead. oops, i apologised. Did a lot of turn right and turn left at traffic. Traffic seems ok initially. Till after turning right, i need to keep left. usu during my training, there are parked vehicles so i would keep to the right to avoid them. this time round, no parked vehicles but there are markings, i wanted to turn left but hesitated so i cnacel signal and continue on the right. Aft the markings, i tried to turn left. i was quick to do it so i also didnt check properly. there are motor bike on my left and bmw on my right. i was stuck in the middle. This mistake becomes my immediate failure. :(

aft tt, still committed some mistakes at junction... in total, incurred 28 demerit points plus one immediate failure.

not in mood to go back school to help up with the P5 ge/non-ge camp. skipped my first day lect at nie.

2 days counting down to driving test

When my previous ended on last sun, i was anxious cos my instructor said i m still not gd in several items and i also made quite a lot of mistakes. He left his contact no. and consulted him several times regarding whether i need extra lessons and whether instructor m is gd. actually, wanted to book an extra lesson on wed but it was the last session at 8+pm. don't like such timing and after much consideration and consultation with mum, decided not to take. even thot of learning from pte instructors for 1 or 2 lessons but to no avail. time running short and was told by colleague that the pte instructors would also charge me sch rate. ex and don know if they are gd. haiz, leave it to fate. Hence, that left me with 3 more lessons before test.

Today, sat, went to ubi early as the first instructor compensate me for the loss hrs on my very first lesson. thought wouldn't get back my compensation cos this was so long ago, about a yr plus ago. Met him at the overhead bridge and he told me to wait for him at the lobby later. was there early to look ard the circuit.

i started off with parallel parking. oops turn steering wheel to the wrong side without realising it. :p parking was bad today cos of the positioning of car initially. Going up slope also bad cos of my initial positioning. trained in circuit during the 45 mins of make up. went out to the road. warned my instructor ahead tt my road driving is equally bad. hmm, positioning of car wrong when waiting to make the turn. this instructor didnt comment on my filter lane unlike last week's instructor. going back to circuit again to do parking. this time round ok so time to drive back to kovan too. asked me to practise more in circuit and road wise hv to be careful. was under this instructor most of the time previously when i was learning during hols. was quite fearful of him cos his temper quite bad.

oops, time to end off my diary, find myself a pc addict lately. cant survive w/o pc and internet.

Observation

Observation is a daunting term to me, its a nightmare to me ever since my practicum. Practicum days seem not too much a history to me though in fact it was a yr ago. Had enough of that last year, 11 times of observations by supervisor, cooperating teachers and SCM. After CNY, saw familiar faces coming back. they were the ones who went through thick and thin with us last year. Comparing them with us, I shan't complain, at least my suffering is over. Not really actually as i still have observations twice a yr. initially, scheduled my obs in week 10 mon but they just finished their CA and thus need to go through paper. Postponed to wed but have games day on tt day so postpone to thu 8 mar. (Btw, my glasgow house students have done well in mini tennis, boys got second, while gals got first!)

Students didnt behave well 100%. told them in advance that someone will be coming in obs and some of them seem to forget. they wanted to watch the soccer by their juniors P4 girls. i refused of course! one or two boys misbehaved by shouting their answers out and made unnecessary comments. Even a girl got me into trouble by not paying attention. My mentor talked to her directly. think my classroom management would fail. I let them go for recess and its the end of my mentor's obs too. She commented gd and will talk to me again. Phew... not too bad, i supposed.

Fri was last day of term 1. My mentor came to look for me for post-conference. She said my lesson was very interesting and wanted me to share in the cluster. Mentors, together with 3 BTs, will be presenting that day. We will give feedback regarding the SMP as well.