The average pass rate for Taiwan’s driver’s license test over the past five years was almost 64 percent, while it was almost 49 percent for the motorcycle license test, the Directorate-General of Highways (DGH) said yesterday.
The highway authority made the remarks after some people said that one of the main reasons that Taiwan is dangerous for pedestrians is because people can pass the driver’s and motorcycle license tests too easily.
The DGH said that in recent years it has gradually increased the difficulty of the tests.
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The pass rate for the driver’s license test has dropped to an average of 63.67 percent from more than 70 percent before 2018.
The average passing rate of the motorcycle license was 48.49 percent, DGH data showed.
The percentage of people obtaining a car or motorcycle license the first time they write the test has also dropped.
Over the past five years, people have taken the driver’s test 1.7 times on average before getting their license, while people have had to take the motorcycle test 2.1 times.
One motorcyclist took the written test 32 times before passing it, the agency said, adding another secured their license after taking the road test 24 times.
Regarding the driver’s license test, there were people who have taken the written test or road test 20 times before passing, the agency said.
Although those who took the license test multiple times were mostly foreign students, data showed that the license test has become more difficult to pass, the DGH said.
Although many people feared driving the S-curve, the agency said most test takers get points deducted during the driving test when reversing their cars into parking, trying to do parallel parking, when driving in lanes, when changing lanes and turning at intersections, the agency said.
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