Reverse around a corner

[dydey90]

My missus has just failed her driving test for the second time on a reverse around a corner. Her test sheets show one minor over two tests.
In my opinion this is a pointless manoeuvre and whoever thought of it ought to be shot at dawn. Why is it part of the test?
Also, is there an appeals procedure? She's had the same examiner both times fail her for the same thing and apparently he's well known in the area (Harehills test centre).

I'm hoping somebody will help me to make his life difficult in a very official and legal manner. (I'm looking at you, Rogerborg )
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[J.M.]

Most simple solution - teach her how to reverse around a corner!
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[P.addy]

Its one of the few practical parts they assess you on. I passed doing it, fuck knows how... I hate reversing.

[map]

Curious how she actually reverses around a corner now.

Driving instructor I used to know put tape lines on the rear window. This allowed her to tell her pupils to use them to judge going round the corner or parallel park and how far off kerb.
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[dydey90]

I see you've all jumped to the conclusion of "She can't reverse"

She can, I've seen her do it. She's more than good enough to pass the test, hence the lack of minors. The examiner is just being a dick and failing her for being more than 1.5 knats cocks away from the curb. Should it even be a major fault? I thought the requirement for that was that it had the potential to cause danger to other road users.
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[N cee thirty]

possibly doesn't wait for pedestrians to go past or shes not doing checks, I've got this maneuver for mah next lesson and i bet the guy over complicates it no end, had no issues on tractor test doing it.
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[yen_powell]

Just angle the left hand mirror down and in so you can see the rear wheel and the kerb at the same time. I'm sure there is nothing to stop you doing that before you start the reverse, remember to put it back before carrying on with the next instruction.
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[N cee thirty]

My instructor loves to hug the curb , be it parking or driving, and then you wonder why young people get bullied on the roads.
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[anthony_r6]

My instructor just said "Look here, use this point, turn this and reverse like this" - Tried and got better until I was able to do it on my own.

I don't know why women fail so hard at reversing, but they should definitely be able to do it before passing their test. It's quite a big part of being able to drive.
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[dydey90]

So in answer to my questions:

-Why is it a part of the test? Nobody knows

-Is there an appeals procedure? It turns out there is, but if you win the appeal all you get is a free retest. The only way you win is if the test hasn't been carried out to regulation, which it had as the manoeuvre was requested. There's no grounds for "I failed you because I'm a miserable bastard and I don't like you"
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[daemonoid]

[dydey90]

Nobody reverses around a corner, I never have and out of the dozens of people I've asked over the last six years since I started driving, none of them had.

I have told her to use a different test centre though, she's actually much closer to Wakefield, with Harehills being right on the other side of Leeds (Harehills is north-east, she lives south of the city). Wakefield has a higher pass rate and a car park, go one of your manoeuvres is certainly a reverse park. Then it's just a 1/3 chance of getting reverse around a corner on the road.
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[N cee thirty]

I don't think its more that you need to know how to reverse round a corner, and more of know how to make the car go backwards safely, in which alot of people especially woman can't seem to do when they have 30 foot of tractor coming towards them down a tight lane.
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[mistergixer]

[daemonoid]

[Ste]

Go to a different test centre if the examiner is part of a conspiracy against those who can't reverse around corners.

Or, she could just learn to drive to test standard.

[dydey90]

[metalangel]

I used to do a similar maneuver almost every day... on a narrow street, back into an alley and then drive back out and go the other way along the road.

Adjust her side mirrors so she can see the very edge of the car... and so, the curb.
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[chris-red]

I haven't since driving but I nailed it on the test.

It isn't done because it is a common manoeuvre, it done to show you have control of the car.

It's the same as the bike test no one needs to turn their bike round in the road without putting a foot down. It is to show competency.
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