Is there a quota on the amount of passes a driving examiner can have?

UK Dad

Everyone that fails say yes there is but examiners say no.
If you are good enough you pass.

"isitme"

Absolutely not, if you're good enough, you'll pass.

esmerelda v

No, if they get a load of good drivers they all pass.

thud.fan

Not in the US. When you look at the examiner, that person decides who gets to drive the road. Yet examiners are not consistent in their evaluations. Each has a different set of values and standards. Many examiners failed applicants because they could not parallel park. To me, parallel parking is not a pass/fail criteria. And who parks between cones anyway? The road test examiner gives the last look at how well an applicant can handle a vehicle. If all the applicants evaluated by a particular examiner pass, it could be the luck of the draw or the applicants were good enough to pass. There can be no preset number on how many pass or fail. If it was ever found out that there was a quota, the state would be wide open for a law suit.

All the best.

bungee

I doubt it<

krazybob613

NO.
While not all examiners are exactly equal in their interpretation of exactly at what point you have committed a "violation" during the road driving part of the test, each examiner is testing every candidate driver to the exact same state mandated procedure with the same number of possible faults or errors permissible in the basic handling portion and in the road driving portion of the test.

You may find this difficult to believe but examiners really do not care if you pass or fail ( they get paid either way ) but they care passionately about safe driving and hold all candidates to the same high standard to assure that all licensed drivers do know how to drive safely!

By the way, the basic handling portion of the test is inherently flawed - in real life no one cares if you go back and forth 3 times to get properly positioned in a parallel parking spot, and they do care if you jump the curb or hit another vehicle, in the parallel parking part of the test simply back into the area defined by the cones and stop and beep - do not even try to position properly ! You will get one point for being out of the lines - but you will get one point for each time you maneuver beyond one backing move, one stop and one forward move and one stop. NOT very realistic! Most people who fail the test during the basic control portion fail by racking up points trying to actually get properly positioned!

Many people who fail during the driving portion do so because they fail to come to a complete stop before any portion of the vehicle crosses: A) The painted Stop Line or Painted Crosswalk line. or
B) An imaginary line crossing the road perpendicular to the Stop Sign.
You must come to a complete and total stop within 10 feet before that point and look both directions before proceeding, if when stopped at the correct location you do not have a clear view in both directions of the intersecting road - and at MOST intersections this will be the case! - then after the complete stop, you may inch forward while continuing to scan in both directions until you CAN see clearly in both directions. If at any point you observe conflicting traffic on the crossing street you must stop again and wait for the traffic to clear, if when you reach the point where you can see clearly in both directions and there is no conflicting traffic you may then accelerate smoothly through the intersection or perform any specified turn as the instructor has previously directed.

Drive Safely!

WelshLad

No, this is myth, which people who have failed believe.

UCANTCME

Nope.........this is just an old wise tale.

fatrab

I don't think nowadays that sort of behaviour would be tolerated!

When I sat my test many moons ago, it was widely rumoured that they had to fail so many per day, and I heard of people failing for the silliest things while others were sure they'd failed but got a pass.

Makes you wonder . . . .

Tash

Probably so. You never know.

Catherine M

I'd imagine so. Just so they can keep test numbers high. If they pass too many people then they will loose money. Obviously though they can't fail someone if they don't incur any major errors. Lucky for me I passed first time! WOOHOO!

Tommy D

Actually, depending on where you live, there are fail/pass quotas for the drive test examiners. I have been a driving examiner in Canada for quite some time, and at many of the drive test centres I've worked, the general principle is that fails=more money. I know we still get paid regardless, however each time someone needs to retake their G2 Road Test, they pay $40. This piles up quick over the course of the day, and a general policy for us is to rack up enough fails to pay for a few days work based on minimum wage ($10.25/hr x 8 x 2= $168= approx. 7 fails). This usually happens on it's own, and it may not seem like much but if you average that amount by the amount of examiners we have, it's substantial.

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