Learner's license

marine1 said:
Is the legal age for learners for a car still 17?
Also for a bike what is the legal age?

Thanks
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For a learners,
Car: 17
Bike: 16 (Restrictions differ with regard to engine size depending on your age)
 
I just passed my driving test on friday, did the learners via the same driving school. I also aced the learners thanks to the driving school :-)

Even if you think that you can already drive like a god i would still go to a driving school since they teach you the way the traffic official wants you to drive... the way that matters just for that hour of the examination. Oh im 25 and only just got it, never really cared since i lived in europe. :-)
 
Hmm cant sleep...

I got my License on my 23rd birthday...i made sure he knew it was my b-day...

I knew the route we were going to drive, also helps i guess. But you have to go for atleast 1 driving lesson. funny how they want you to worry more about where uve been than where you are actually going. Mirror mirror mirror
 
I'm know I am jumping on a very old thread,
just thought I would drop my lines here,
rather than start a new thread.

So I have been studying my "Pass your Learner's Easily" and "The Learner's License Test" books for a couple days. Writing on the 17th.

Pretty much have it down to scratch.

I do have the 3 test papers though [A, B and C],
and I would like to run over them a couple times to make sure I don't fail.
I am already so behind at doing my Drivers that I just cannot afford to waste another 6-10 months.

Can someone tell me whether as of 2009 the Learner's License Test Papers were changed? or are they still the same as they have always been.

Time appreciated ;p
 
I heard a rumour that they had changed, but I highly doubt that.
I wrote last year, and I am almost sure that the tests today are the same as they were then
 
Tests are still the same, except if it's a computerized testing center.

I got my learners for my car and bike last week Monday. :p Took a bit long, but had a few things on my plate.
 
Doing mine in Durbanville,
from what I know, those aren't computerized.

Or am I wrong?
 
...and by Durbanville,
I meant Belville.

I can never tell the difference!
 
So I made a couple emails,
to which these are a few of the responses,

"No the test has not change."

"Books A, B and C has been faced out and we are using a new range of books and these books are used country wide."

"We received new learner’s books in October 2008, basically the same questions are asked as in old books, just different sequence."

"The questions is still the same but they have introduced end of last year a D,E & F book also with the same questions just shuffled more than the A,B & C books."

"Morning the books are all the same nothing has changed."

Seems to be some confusion concerning this,
even at the traffic departments.
 
I am so disappointed. I've failed the test again yesterday, for the 3rd time - and by only 1 point. So now I have to pay again for the test and I really can't afford to get it wrong again.

I saw that there were other people there that had what looked like the test papers. How do they get these papers?
 
You have to know people :D
Actually, since my Namibian licence is expiring and I can't get back to Nam for the renewal, I went to try get it converted to South African. Appears Namibian licences are not exchangable, unless you are 16 years old (which means you wouldn't have a driver's anyway... or did I miss something there??). WTF??

So long story short, now I need to redo my entire licence - SA version though. And with the incompetence that plauges the licence bookings, looks like the diving school is going to be the best option. Wish me luck...
 
FREE SA Learners Tests

The old written tests are soon going to be a thing of the past and already in Joburg you write your test on a PC. If you want to test yourself before writing the real thing, there is only one free site out there. salearnerstests.co.za
 
Can anybody send me a email aswell on A, b, c please i'm writing soon i wanna pass one shot an get it out of my hair...Thanks guys will be waiting
 
well... i've done the learners when i was16, then when i was 25, then when i was 30 and now i'm going to bloody well do it again at 32. ffs... the learners are so damned easy and in more than a decade its the same old stuff, so this part doesn't scare me. It's the q'ing and the spending of time and money i don't have, just to blow it on the first friggen parking test at watloo, not once, but twice!!

looking back i reckon i was too freaked out by the thought of the coming road test and that i HAD to do it cos the learners was expiring. so i blew it and got it over with asap.

now, i'm going to drive the bf's automatic and to hell with having a licensed driver next to me. that is how my brothers learned to drive, stealing mom's car and going for joyrides. i was too chicken.

trust me, get it over and done with while you are still young and don't have grown up shtuff to contend with ie no money, cranky bosses, nobody to drive you there, etc etc etc. I was very jealous when i heard the plans to make driving lessons part of the school curriculum. You lucky little t-urds.

anywho, if anybody knows if Centurion is computerized or if anybody has the new tests, please gimme? i need to add this to my learners stash. seems like i collect old expired learners licenses and defunct learners books.

also, does anybody know if it is true that you can have your eye tests done at any optometrist and then just hand this in with your documents when you go to confirm the booking? one less q would seriously make my day.

oh yeah and are they open on Saturdays for confirmations of bookings?? and if not why not??
 
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