Anyone feel they've been tricked on their road test?

Thanks all for the input.

To give a little more info, my vehicle (a full-size school bus) was definitely not allowed on the parkway - and again, I knew this but was doing what the tester said. Up until 1-1/2 yrs. ago, I've lived in Georgia, so I'm not a native New Yorker and am not 100% familiar with all the roads and parkways yet. I currently live in upstate New York but my driving school is in the Bronx which is where I had to take the road test.

After the fail today, I went back and read the DMV manual they gave me about road tests. It says you are to do what the instructor tells you and the instructor will never tell you to do something dangerous. It also says the tester will give you enough time to react when he gives you instructions. I don't feel this guy did that. Plenty of times I didn't have a lot of time to do what he told me. I had an hour session with my instructor before the road test, and according to him, I did everything perfect. After I posted this thread, I looked at what I thought was my DMV receipt, but it was actually a list of what I did wrong according to this test guy. He wrote a number of things that I did not do and things that I DID do - sorry but I just don't see it. He was writing things like unsafe lane change, when I purposely waited until it was safe to switch lanes. I seriously think this guy had it in for me. It's basically my word against his and I have no clue what to do in this case. I don't mind paying the $40 bucks to just take the test again and hopefully get another test person, but it's the $400 bucks I have to give to the driving school for use of their vehicle for another test that hurts.

 

The seat belt thing I could see because that's a safety issue. Just like if I didn't know the parts of the bus or the different brake tests, that's not knowing your vehicle and not safe. But the parkway thing, in my opinion is a moving violation issue. Doesn't mean I don't know or can't drive the vehicle properly. A dummy yes, and again, I think points should have been taken off, but not automatic fail. I've seen lots of trucks getting onto wrong roadways by mistake - they're lost, the exits come up too quick for reaction, etc. In hindsight, it wasn't so much I was nervous, but more just following what he said. Dumb and wrong on my part, but I also feel he was grading me wrongly on other things. Basically flat out lying.

I will make some calls today and will at least check into it. If he was within his rights to tell me to do that, then I will take my lumps and chalk it up to experience like some here said. But I think it's at least worth questioning in case he did something that's not allowed. The $400 is hard for me to raise again.