"Twenty-five miles per hour, no hills, no curves, no lights, only a single lane, nothing but stop signs." "Seven Hills is a little neighborhood," Adams said. Tim Adams, an instructor at Bick's Driving School in Cincinnati, said he tells his students to test at Seven Hills because it's easier to pass there. "A lot of Cincinnati kids go to Seven Hills because it's easier."ĭrivers taking Sharonville's test often encounter significant traffic, must cross several lanes of traffic and must react to school zones and one-way streets.
"All my friends are going to Seven Hills," she said. She said her friends and her driving instructors told her the Sharonville course is challenging because it includes one-way streets.īecause of that, Apfelbeck plans to go to the Seven Hills location when she takes her test in March even though it's a bit farther away. "Sharonville's a lot harder," said Kate Apfelbeck, 16, of Wyoming who is currently taking driver's education classes from Jeff's Driving School in Blue Ash. Sharonville had a 26.9 percent failure rate on the maneuverability test, the third highest.ĭuring the road test, students drive a pre-approved course on streets with an examiner, who assesses their driving abilities.
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In the maneuverability test, students must go forward and backward through a series of cones. Students must pass two driving tests to get their licenses. But students and driving schools say that the Sharonville area is congested and complicated. Only one student failed there last year.Ī spokeswoman from the Ohio Department of Public Safety, which oversees the BMV could not explain the disparities, saying any guesses would be purely speculative. If you're looking for the site where you're most likely to pass, you'll have to drive a ways: the lowest failure rate in the state was in Napoleon, a city of about 9,000 people 45 miles southwest of Toledo in Henry County.
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Warren County's Lebanon sitefailed 8.8 percent of its drivers Ĭlermont County's Batavia site failed 7.6 percent of its test-takers. That ranked it 39th out of the 88 exam stations included in the analysis.īutler County's Hamilton test site failed 12.3 percent of its drivers Meanwhile, Hamilton County's only other test site, which is called "Seven Hills," and located on Hamilton Avenue in Springfield Township, failed 8.9 percent of its students.
The Sharonville exam site on Reading Road failed 28.3 percent of the drivers who took the test there last year - the highest failure rate in the state, according to an analysis of BMV data. Students wanting to pass their driving test might want to steer clear of Sharonville.