driving test checklist

✅ Core Rule Examiners Look For: “Do you check what you need, at the right time, and act safely?” If they can’t see you check it… it didn’t happen.

🚗 The Universal Mini-Sequence (Use Constantly) ⭐️

Mirrors (Insert blind spot check when moving sideways) → Signal → Manoeuvre

SEQUENCE: Moving Off (Most Important One) ⭐️

• 1. Interior mirror

• 2. Side mirror

• 3. Blind spot (SHOULDER CHECK)

• 4. Move off smoothly

Turning Left / Right ⭐️

• 1. Interior mirror

• 2. Relevant side mirror

• 3. Signal (in good time)

• 4. Blind spot check (especially left for cyclists)

• 5. Turn

Changing Lanes / Position ⭐

• 1. Mirrors (interior + side)

• 2. Signal

• 3. Blind spot check

• 4. Move

At Junctions ⭐️

• Mirrors before slowing

• Look: Right → Left → Right

• Decide: Go / Stop / Crawl

• Keep checking while emerging

Reversing Manoeuvres

• All-around observation (constant)

• Look over shoulders (not just mirrors)

• Slow control

• Stop if unsure

Blind Spot Rule: You MUST do a blind spot check when: ⭐️

• Moving off

• Changing lanes

• Pulling out / pulling in

• Turning across cyclists

Is not checking mirrors before slowing an instant fail risk?

yes it is.

Is no blind spot check when required an instant fail risk?

yes it is.

Is hesitating dangerously (when it causes other drivers to slow unnecessarily) an instant fail risk?

yes it is.

⚠ Instant Fail Risks (Serious Faults)

• No blind spot when required

• Pulling out causing someone to brake

• ⚠ Not checking mirrors before slowing

• Missing obvious hazards (pedestrian, cyclist)

• Hesitating dangerously OR going when unsafe

Simple version: before slowing ⭐️

1. mirror

2. break

Simple version: before any manoeuvre

Mirrors → Signal → Speed → Blind spot → Go

🎯 What Gets You Marked Positively? ⭐️

• Clear, visible head movements

• Checks done early, not last-second

• Smooth, confident decisions

• Not over-checking (don’t look robotic)