I am doing a course for a driver's licence, and will have my test on Friday
I'm not really ready yet.
They are quite a difficult affair here in Europe, too. I've heard in the States, you can in some jurisdictions just get a driver's licence without even a test.
Today, my instructor did the first 15 minutes as a "test", with no talking or correcting me, and I passed it
right afterwards, I started making some mistakes
she corrected me, and I started making even larger mistakes
partly in situations I have never been alone in before. For example, I was leaving a roundabout.
THere was a large bus entering, so I was afraid he will pass before me, and reached to stop the car.
She was furious, telling me I should under no circumstances ever stop in such a situation, because it is almost a sure hit from behind
so 1) the physical danger for me is worse than a side hit, and 2) I would be the one at fault (while, if the entering bus had hit me, it would have been his fault).
So now I am slowly trying to entangle why I am so stressed - maybe I am starting being more afraid of passing the exam than of failing it!
I made more mistakes today, all of them things I should have known, and that even before the stress of the roundabout
for example, on a right turn, I shifted to second gear instead of fourth
noticed the car is too quick, reached to correct (while still turning) and got fourth again.
The engine died while still not out of the turn, with other cars behind me.