This was, by far, the worst experience I have ever had and I would not recommend this place to anyone. After I checked in for my road test three days ago, I waited in the car for about thirty minutes. The examiner was about fifteen minutes late from my scheduled appointment. As soon as he arrived, he started talking and this is when I knew everything was bound to go terribly wrong.
To begin, when he started talking, he had a very, very heavy accent and it made it near impossible for me to understand anything that came out of his mouth. He looked at me and I rolled up my window because I thought he was going to enter the car and we were going to begin (this was after he checked my brake lights, left signal and right signal -- he just pointed which way I should signal so that wasn't so bad). After I rolled up the window, he gave me a vicious glare and that terrified me to death. I promptly rolled down the window afterward, questioning to myself as to why he hadn't gotten in the car yet, and it turns out that he actually wanted me to roll down the window. There was a zero percent chance of me ever being able to understand that through his thick accent. He then retorts angrily, "How do you expect me to talk to you if you roll up your window?" Obviously because he's the examiner, I apologized right away. After I rolled down the window, he asked me a few questions and then entered the car. We both buckled up and began the test.
As soon as he gave me that evil glare and unprofessionally yells at me, I knew that nothing was going to go well. Before even getting to the Test Centre, I was feeling confident (but not over-confident) that it was going to go well. Being yelled at destroyed every ounce of confidence that I had in me and it turned the entire experience into one giant disaster. I was very scared when he told me to turn right and exit the parking lot. After we left the parking lot, he told me to take a right at the stop sign. At first, I wasn't sure what told me; to go straight or to take a right, so I said, "I'm sorry?" He repeats, "Sir, take a right at the stop sign" in a very indignant tone. I then say, "OK, sorry about that" and he just ignored that comment. We continue, and I was gradually speeding up and he said, "Sir, you're going way too slow." Again, I didn't want to argue, but since I was nervous I gradually sped up rather than very quickly, and then he boorishly asks, "Do you know what the speed limit is here?" I didn't say anything at first because I thought he was just venting, but he continued to give me a stern stare when I didn't reply and I subconsciously said "Forty" by accident; realizing seconds after that it was a road and it was actually fifty. By now, I knew I was practically finished and that the rest of the test doesn't matter. He then lectured me while I was trying to concentrate on driving, but most of what he said, I had disregarded since I couldn't understand most of the things he was saying. I took a right turn after a stop sign, and then another right turn in an intersection and proceed to do a road-side stop. I was questioning why he made me do a road-side stop because the vehicle was way too close to an intersection and while in driving school, my driving instructor said to never park your car or stop too close to an intersection. Anyway, after the road-side stop which was OK, I was told to do a three-point turn ten metres ahead beside another tree. This also went well. After the three-point turn, I was told to do a parallel parking behind a black jeep, and this also went very smoothly. Finally, I was told to drive back to the Test Centre and was tested on a few lane changes, but the last thing I was told to do was park. Once again, I didn't hear him so I asked if he could repeat what he said, and he gave me a malicious eye and repeated what he said in an infuriated tone. He gave me the option to park whichever way I wanted, so I decided to do a head-in parking and it went OK.
That concluded the test. He then added up my score and said a bunch of things -- which, once again, I didn't understand -- so I didn't even bother asking what he was saying because at that point I stopped caring. I couldn't even tell if I passed or failed, so when he gave me the yellow sheet I just glanced at it really quickly and was able to figure out I failed. No surprise there; I anticipated this from the start of the test and almost knew this was certainly going to happen.
There's already enough pressure to pass your G2 test, but the main issue for me are the examiners themselves. They could really be more polite and mannered to the people giving their test. Also, a person giving their test should NOT be expected to fully understand someone through a heavy accent. I wasn't expecting to be talked to in such an adverse way and I definitely didn't expect to be tested by someone who could barely communicate to me and it made everything very difficult.
Worst experience ever; I wouldn't recommend. read more
