Written test for CA driving license - my experience

This one is completely different from the usual posts that i publish which exhibit my culinary skills or the hobby of painting. All i am gonna write here is about the "written test" which i took today for obtaining the permit for driving in California.

I am a post graduate and its a shame to tell that i failed.... Just by a couple of questions. And i was sure that i will fail, when i was waiting in the queue to get my paper assessed! What a shameless creature i am - You must be wondering. But i dont feel ashamed at all :))

I do feel sad, for just one thing - my hubby took a 3 hour permission from his work, just to take this silly gurl to the DMV office and get her permit done. I am sure to hit the 2nd time right. You hear me hubby? I WILL DO IT. :)

I am writing this post to help other people like me, who want to take up the written test. This is how i prepared myself. I collected "CA driver's license" handbook from library, 5 sets of question papers from my friends; read the hand book till page # 36 and could not go further because of my laziness, solved all of the papers 3 times; In addition i also took up the online tests that are available in the website. There were around 5 tests. I though I am well prepared for the exam. But alas, i was wrong.

All I want to tell people is that solving papers alone would not matter. They come just handy, to know how the questions are framed. In fact, you WILL have to go through the handbook. Read it thoroughly at least once. The written test papers have questions in different forms for the same answer and this is where most of them go wrong. In my point of view, i failed to mark the best of the 3 answers, cos, to most queries, all 3 choices held good! How sad is that. Now, anyone would get confused to choose. In this case, the evaluation is done based on the best answer.

Now, in spite of being a little disheartened about the fact that i could not pass a simple written test for driving (I dunno how I managed to read those massive books to pass my post graduation, that too at 1 shot!!!), I want to take this failure as a step towards success. I shall write my next post - may it be cooking/painting/anything, only after i pass my written exam.

Wishing myself good luck,
Tc,
N:astro