[UK] What age did you pass your driving test?


Driving Test Pass Age  

29 members have voted

  1. 1. What age did you pass your driving test?

    • 17
      14
    • 18
      8
    • 19
      4
    • 20
      0
    • 21
      1
    • 22
      0
    • 23
      1
    • 24
      0
    • 25
      1


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What age did you pass your driving test?

This is for 17-25 year old UK people please :)

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I didn't read the "UK" part until after I voted.

So subtract 1 from "23". I got it on my first attempt but was obviously not in much of a hurry to get it.

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It's just that I've always been in full-time education (so couldn't get a full-time job) and didn't even think about driving until I was 19 and by then, I already felt I was starting late as I knew a lot of friends, ex, family members etc. my age who had been driving for a year or two already (since they were 17).

I am now nearly 21 ( in less than two weeks) and I am about to begin my final year of university. After that, I can work full-time and get earn to be able to learn, by the car, insure it, tax it etc. but I still consistently hear of mates, exs, family members etc. (all younger than me) passing and it's doing my head in.

By the time I have a car on the road (with a full license), I'll be 22 and I'll know so many mates, exs, family members etc. who have been driving for 4/5 years already and there is nothing worse than feeling non-independent (something I strive to achieve) :/

No idea why it gets to me really...

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Third attempt when I was 19. I took a year's break though for uni. My boyfriend passed his first time, 11 weeks after his 17th birthday the git, but the tests were easier back then of course.

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I didn't start learning until I was 20. I only had a provisional license as prof of age. I passed my test just after my 21st.

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Sorry to hijack the thread but just wanted to be clear on something. I'm 15 now, so when I am 16 and a couple of months from my 17th birthday, I can start lessons then once I pass and turn 17, legally allowed to drive?

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You need to be have your provisional license which they wont send till just before your 17, so you have to wait till then before you start. Passed when I was 17 myself... couldn't afford to keep a car on the road though.

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