I Failed All 3 Of My School Tests
I'm so discouraged after failing the school road, pre-trip, and maneuvers test.
I would've passed the road trip except I hit a curb, which is an automatic fail. Only other thing I was docked on was missing traffic checks at a handful of intersections.
I completely botched the pre-trip. I was assigned Section C (the trailer) along with coupling and in-cab. C is the Section I'm least familiar with and I just had blanked out and panicked. Also was given some bad info about pre-trip and in-cab since an instructor only comes out to teach about it once a week.
Maneuvers consisted of the Straight Back, Crossover/Offset, and the 90. 13+ points is failing and enchrocements are 2 points. Got 2 points from the straight back and 0 points from the crossover. I was already struggling with the 90 anyway but I used a GOAL (you only get 2 w/o penalty) and got out of the tr uck facing forward instead of the tr uck .Since it's considered unsafe I automatically failed maneuvers.
After that I spoke to the assistant director of the school to request more personalized instruction. I have a learning disability that makes certain teaching methods difficult, so I figured it was worth a shot. I'm supposed to talk to the training director tomorrow. I feel so far behind from my classmates and I guess today confirmed those fears.
On the bright side all of my classmates and most of the instructors seem really supportive. It seems like I'm the only one beating myself up.