To obtain a Provisional Driver’s License in Western Australia, students have to obtain the Phase 1 and Phase 2 Learner’s Permit. In applying for a Phase 1 Learner’s Permit, the new driver has to be 16 years old and must pass both the eye test and computerized test according to the rules of Western Australia. Once the new driver has obtained the Phase 1 Learner’s Permit, he can now drive under the supervision of someone who has held a full Australian driver’s license for a minimum of 4 years. After holding on to a learner’s permit for 6 months, you are now eligible to sit for the practical driving assessment.
What will you be assessed on?
During the driving test, the testing officer will give you simple yet clear instructions like “at the next street, turn left.” If you are unclear about the instruction, you can always ask the officer to repeat it for you.
The driving test will then be marked as follows:
• YES for every time you do something correctly,
• NO when you do not do it right, or
• N/A if traffic or road conditions prevent you from carrying out the instructions.
Your driving skills will then be assessed based on a performance checklist where you are required to obtain no less than 80% to pass the test and obtain your license.
The performance checklist:
1. Pre-drive check
Listed below are the controls you must know where to locate and how to use them:
• Indicators and brake lights
• Wiper wash control
• Horn
• Headlights – high/low beam
• Hazard lights
• Seatbelt
• Demister
• Handbrake
Take note that the test cannot proceed if any or some of these controls are not in proper working order.
2. Driving in traffic
During the drive, the testing officer will observe whether you do the following:
• Mirrors. Check the mirror immediately before signaling and before applying the brakes.
• Signals. Signal long enough to sufficiently warn other drivers and pedestrians before turning and at least 5 seconds before merging into traffic or changing lanes. Keep signaling whilst driving in the roundabouts. Immediately cancel the signal after turning or diverging.
• Changing lanes. Before you merge into traffic or change lanes, do a head check by turning your head and looking through the appropriate side window to ensure that no other road users are in your blind spot. Maintain a reasonable and safe gap in the traffic.
• Approaching. Applying the brake smoothly, and engaging the brakes and gears when slowing down or stopping completely.
• Stop position. Stopping the car within exactly 2 meters of the stop line at a stop sign with the front wheels on or in front of the line. If no stop line can be spotted, stop as close as practical to the right before the stop sign or an intersection.
• Judgment. When approaching intersections, slow down smoothly, look at the right direction and react properly to other vehicles and pedestrians.
• Turning. When turning, drive in the correct lane or road position and follow all road markings and traffic lane arrows.
• Progressing. Travel at an appropriate speed and not above the speed limit.
• Position on the road. Drive within the markings on the lane of the correct lane or in the correct lane of traffic.
• Car control. Control the vehicle properly by using the steering, gears and clutch, brakes, accelerator and handbrake.
• Safety margin. Keep a safe distance when following other vehicles on the road.
3. Low speed maneuvering
This part of the assessment will test your control of the car significantly at low speed and in reverse. While the car is stationary, do not turn the steering wheel. In addition, you will be asked to do one of the following low speed maneuvers during the driving test:
• Reverse parallel parking. You will be asked to pull up next to a parked vehicle and reverse into the space behind the vehicle.
• Three point turn. You will be asked to make a three point turn (turning your car around) on a road with less space as your turning circle will allow. You need to complete this maneuver in three movements.
Failure margins
• If you do something illegal or unsafe, you will be deemed failed immediately such as not stopping at a red light, stop sign or stop line, school crossing when flags and signs are displayed to signal pedestrian is crossing.
• When you stop at a location where you place another road user in danger, especially when you collide with another vehicle, a pedestrian or an object like a rubbish bin or a pole near the road.
• Lack of control of the vehicle where the testing officer decides it is unsafe to continue with the assessment.
• Over-speeding for more than 5 consecutive seconds from the time speeding is verified.
• Driving too slowly without any apparent reason for more than 10 km/h under the speed limit.
For more information on what you will be assessed during a Driving Test, City West Driving School in Perth can help you to have all the information so that you can pass your Australia driving test well.
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