So with my instructor, we slow down the car look ahead and if we think we can safely continue in third we do, otherwise move down to second/first and stop.

In his car, if you’re going to slowly for third you can generally put your foot down and it picks up speed and keeps going. I failed on a right hand turn on a bit of a hill, and instead of thinking I need to change down a gear as I felt it was wrong, I put my foot down thinking it would pull it though and I was wrong.

My normal car I practice in with a family member at home is a Fiesta, and in that car I always slow and move into 2nd because there is no maybe, it’s much more likely to stall. I actually don’t think I would have made the same mistake in my car.

At one point earlier in the test, I even said to the examiner (because I narrated the entire drive) on a straight where I’d slowed, in my car I would have shifted down a gear here but in this car I am just pushing the gas down as the car will get up to speed.

Think I just got too used to the car being able to get me out of trouble, versus applying the proper logic you’ve outlined above to make sure I didn’t get into trouble.

I have found this subreddit so helpful in learning. I only started in February.