950 tries later...

[tharpdevenport]

And $4,200.00 later, a Korean woman finally passes her driver's test to get license.

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Nine hundred and fifty fucking times, and they let her have one. I don't know about all you, but after the first 20 tries, there should have been serious concern at the DMV over this lady ever being able to get one. And after the 50 mark, they should have barred her.

8 points away from failing the 951st -- that's all. If she can't pass it 950 times, then it's very doubtful she has the memory skills to retain that knowledge and safely drive a fucking car.

 

[Mr. B]

Wow... not exactly combating stereotypes.

 

[Jeri]

When she gets behind the wheel of her farm truck, heads will roll. Hopefully, they will only be cabbages.

 

[Trekker4747]

I think the lest obvious things said about this article the better off we all will be.

I do wonder now how many tries it'll take her to pass the driving portion of getting her license. Though, I'd think at her age, and given the number of tries and passage of time it took her to get the written portion done, public transit is best.

 

[Triskelion]

There's persistance, and then there's, maybe your time is better spent doing something you're actually good at.

 

[JonathonWally]

Congratulations to her. That's perseverance right there!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Reached for comment, the instructor for her upcoming driving test said: "Tell my wife I drew the short straw, and that I love her very much."

 

[Triskelion]

Turns out the test was upside down and resembled a recipe for kimchee.

 

[kes7]

Persistence is not futile.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

So now we know what the success pattern looks like for a complete "christmas tree" approach to completing standardized tests!

 

[Agony_Boothb]

good for her, i gave up after failing the first time

 

[tharpdevenport]

With all the money she put into paying for the tests, the DMV there probably could have hired a part-time employee just to come in and service her each visit.

 

[JonathonWally]

With all the money she put into paying for the tests, the DMV there probably could have hired a part-time employee just to come in and service her each visit.

$4k over 4 1/2 years doesn't seem like that much money.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Makes me glad i don't live in S. Korea.

 

[RoJoHen]

It blows my mind that 60% is a passing grade for something like this.

 

[Lindley]

Well, 70% is passing for the private pilot written exam. There's a *lot* of stuff in those things that the average person would have no reason to know.

Still, if memory serves most of the questions on the driver's test were fairly common-sense.

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, 70% is passing for the private pilot written exam. There's a *lot* of stuff in those things that the average person would have no reason to know.

Still, if memory serves most of the questions on the driver's test were fairly common-sense.

I don't remember my driver test too well, but I'm pretty sure most of it was useful information that any capable driver needed to be aware of.

Then again, it was part of the high school curriculum, and the class was a full semester, so maybe I was just able to learn a lot more.

And still if you need to take a test 950 times just to pass a 60%, you've got some serious issues.

 

[kathryn i am]

Well, 70% is passing for the private pilot written exam. There's a *lot* of stuff in those things that the average person would have no reason to know.

Presumably if you're going for your pilot's exam though, you're not just an average person off the street?

 

[JonathonWally]

Still, if memory serves most of the questions on the driver's test were fairly common-sense.

I remember my written exam, back in '97 here in Jersey, the test consisted of 10% questions on driving, 90% on DWI laws.

 

[Lindley]

Well, 70% is passing for the private pilot written exam. There's a *lot* of stuff in those things that the average person would have no reason to know.

Presumably if you're going for your pilot's exam though, you're not just an average person off the street?

What I meant was that a lot of the questions aren't things you'd pick up during flight training. FAA regulations and stuff, not directly applicable to the day-to-day operation of an aircraft. Stuff like what range of tensile strengths you're allowed to use for a cable that's going to tow a glider, or how soon you need to notify the FAA after a change of address.