When a pupil is ready to take the practical test, I try to explain that they need to focus just for 40-50 minutes by taking the test one step at a time.
Break the test down into lots of small obstacles or events. On a straight piece of road, there may be dozens of events, such as parked cars or pedestrian crossings. Every time you approach an obstacle, go through the motions of checking mirrors & slowing down first. This will buy you time to get round the obstacles. There is a good chance that if you slow down, the issue will become less of a problem as lorries will have moved off, traffic lights would have changed to green or on-coming traffic will have got out of the way.
However, this is not a licence to crawl along the road at 5mph. If you appear to be holding up cars behind you, there is a chance that you will fail because you were going too slow! If the obstacle needs you to slow down, move out of the way and stop - then that is what you should do, however, try to get up to the speed limit (in urban areas) as soon as you can afterwards.
If you brake the test route down into loads of 'events', then you will return to the test centre totally exhausted, but hopefully successful.
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