With the test coming soon, your anxiety will grow, dreading the day when you will be behind the wheel and the examiner at your right watching every move you make and chasing every minor mistake. Some points are given to you, and by the end of the driving test, you will have to gain the number of points that will result in being issued a driver’s license or not. So, you must keep yourself calm, since anxiety won’t do anything good for you.
To help you feel more at ease with yourself, we have written the following lines to ensure that you overcome this anxiety and perform better in traffic. Check out the following tips:
* One good suggestion is to get familiar with the car and the driving practice. Therefore, climb in your car and together with a responsible person at your right, practice as much as you can daily. You should learn how to signal, how to park correctly, how and when to make the turns in the right way, how to change lanes, and so on.
The person who accompanies you should always make the corrections whenever you do something wrong, allowing you to repeat the maneuvers until you get them right. The purpose of this practice is to gain more confidence in yourself, because loss of confidence may be one of the reasons that you may feel anxious and terrified. Another reason is not knowing about and being unfamiliar with the car’s controls and traffic signs. So keep practicing a lot.
* Another suggestion would be to approach one of the relaxation techniques: sit up and breathe in for four seconds, hold it there for another four seconds, and exhale for another four. Repeat this process for a few minutes every time you feel anxious. You will see that you will feel way better afterwards.
During the driving test, make sure that you congratulate yourself whenever you do the right thing and always ask the examiner in case you haven’t understood what they are telling you to do.