I failed my driver’s license test. What do I do now? When you’ve failed your driver’s license test, all is not lost. You have the chance to retake the driver’s license test three times before starting the licensing process again.

So you failed your driver’s license test. The world is over as you know it. Really, you should just go to your room and learn how to take over the world from your computer. After all, if you fail your driver’s test, you’re a complete loser and you’re certainly not going to amount to anything in your life, right?

Get over it. A lot of people fail their driver’s license tests. A lot of people forget to do the double stop or to look both ways. They might speed because they’re nervous or they might completely miss a yield sign as they were looking at something else. It happens. All you can do is pick yourself back up and try again.

Failing Your Driver’s Test is Not the End of the World

Most DMV agencies will let you retake the driver’s license test three times before you have to apply again for your permit and retake the driver’s education course. You have a lot of chances to get things right. If you didn’t pass the written test, ask to see the questions you got wrong and make sure to study those in addition to the rest of the driver’s education manual. Have your friends and family quiz you on it – oh, they will, even if they laugh at you the whole time. That’s support they’re showing you. Sort of.

And if you’ve failed the driving test, you need to get back out there and practice some more. A lot of people fail the parallel parking part since many teens don’t have to parallel park EVER – and their parents aren’t good examples at all. Practice this again and again until you can do it with your eyes closed – not that you should, of course. But how cool would you feel if you could?

As for the driving course, have someone take you out on the course that you failed on. Drive it again and again until you are so comfortable with it that the people who live on that street think you must live there too. If you can, check with the tester you drove with to see what you did wrong. That way, you can memorize those broken rules, heck write them on your arm, and you’ll never break them again.

Know that you’re not alone in failing your driver’s test – no matter what your mean friends say. Actually, you might want to use this to your advantages, gas is expensive after all. Make someone else drive you around the city until you pass.