{"id":6502,"date":"2011-07-25T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2011-07-25T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:49:46","slug":"when-booking-your-driving-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6502","title":{"rendered":"When Booking Your Driving Test&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few reminders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>only book via the Official DSA website<\/li>\n<li>use <a title=\"DSA - book Theory Test\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/en\/Diol1\/DoItOnline\/Doitonlinemotoring\/DG_197297\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">this link for Theory Tests<\/a><\/li>\n<li>use <a title=\"DSA - book Practical Test\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/en\/Diol1\/DoItOnline\/Doitonlinemotoring\/DG_197299\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">this link for Practical Tests<\/a><\/li>\n<li>do not use <strong>any <\/strong>other sites except for these &#8211; <strong>all <\/strong>others are either unofficial or complete scams<\/li>\n<li>you <strong>do not <\/strong>get sent a confirmation letter for your practical in the post<\/li>\n<li>you can rearrange your test <strong>a maximum of three times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>after that, you&#8217;ll have to cancel and rebook it<\/li>\n<li>you <strong>do not <\/strong>need your instructor&#8217;s ADI number (unless the&#8217;ve told you to use it) &#8211; leave that section blank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reason for limiting the number of changes to three is people keep moving&#160;tests back, then back a bit more, then back a bit more&#8230; when they were obviously never going to be ready to take it in the first place. Repeated changes mess up other people&#8217;s chances of&#160;getting bookings and create administrative issues at the DSA (there&#8217;s a tendency to forget that there is more than just one person taking their test on any given day).<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what you might otherwise be told, the &#8220;three moves&#8221; rule is more to stop people booking tests pointlessly when they are not going to be ready <em>no matter what driving school or driving instructor they are training with<\/em>. It&#8217;s bad enough with three moves being available (relocating just one test for a single pupil is a real headache)&#160;- that&#8217;s probably why it isn&#8217;t publicised openly &#8211; but with more than three&#160;it would be total mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>More test information can be found on the <a title=\"Information Page\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?page_id=2932\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Information page<\/a> of this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few reminders: only book via the Official DSA website use this link for Theory Tests use this link for Practical Tests do not use any other sites except for these &#8211; all others are either unofficial or complete scams you do not get sent a confirmation letter for your practical in the post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}