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So I failed my G today and I can't stop replaying it in my head. I want to know if I actually made mistakes or if some of it was just bad luck with traffic.

The merge onto the highway went fine — I came in around 80 km/h because the car ahead of me was doing the same. No issues there. But the examiner mentioned afterward that I could've switched lanes right away once I was on. I didn't, because 80 didn't feel fast enough to me. I thought you're supposed to be closer to 100 before changing lanes on a highway. Maybe that's just something I told myself, I don't know.

Then I needed to take the second exit. I'd already passed the first one and moved left when it was clear. So far so good. But when I tried to get back into the right lane for my exit, there was a car sitting right beside me doing roughly the same speed. I signaled, waited, couldn't find a safe gap. I also didn't want to just gun it to 115+ during a test because I figured speeding would get marked against me too. Meanwhile there was also someone trying to merge from a ramp, so the right side just felt completely blocked.

The exit was coming up fast and I was kind of just... waiting for something to open up. Eventually the examiner told me to accelerate, pass the car, and take the exit. I did it — went up to about 112 — but I think by that point it was already counted against me.

On top of that, I was doing 68 in a 60 zone on a surface road because I genuinely couldn't read the speedometer in the sun. Slowed down immediately when told, but yeah.

So that was that. Failed.

I explained my thinking to the examiner but they said the call was already made. I get it, it's their job. I'm not trying to argue the result.

I just want to understand — is hesitating to accelerate past a car during a lane change actually the wrong move, or was I just stuck in a bad spot with nowhere to go? Would love to hear from people who've been in similar situations or know how examiners typically see that kind of thing.