The Drive Test is designed to assess your ability to drive safely. You will be penalised if you do something during the test that creates an unsafe situation, or if you do something that could create an unsafe situation.
The most serious penalty – where the test is stopped and you fail immediately – is used if you do something that puts you or other road users at immediate risk of a crash or injury.Immediate termination will be applied if you:
- Have a collision with another vehicle or mount the kerb while driving
- Exceed the speed limit by 5km/h or more at any time
- Exceed the speed limit by any amount for five seconds or more
- Exceed the speed limit by any amount in a school zone when the school zone is in operation
- Fail to give way, signal, or check for other road users so that someone else has to take action to avoid a collision
- Stop the car in a dangerous position
- Drive through a Stop sign or red traffic light
- Disobey a direction given by your testing officer or a member of the Victoria Police
- Do anything that requires your instructor or testing officer to provide verbal or physical assistance during the Drive Test
- Do anything else that creates an unsafe situation.
A penalty called a Critical Error applies if you do something that could create an unsafe situation but is not an immediate danger during the test.
A critical error will be recorded if you:
- Drive too slowly for the conditions or fail to move off when safe to do so from traffic lights or a Stop or Give Way sign
- Fail to look for other road users when necessary for safety (but no evasive action is required from other road users)
- Fail to signal when required (but no evasive action is required from other road users)
- Block a pedestrian crossing but no pedestrians are affected
- Allow one wheel of your car to mount the kerb when parking or leaving a parking space
- Stall your car(manual)
- Slow and pause but do not stop your car completely at a Stop sign (but other road users or pedestrians are not endangered)
- Do something else that is potentially unsafe but does not result in an immediate risk of collision or injury.
If you have too many Critical Errors you will fail.
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