I took my GDL about 10 years ago. No Grab or Uber then. What I remember was, about half the people failed. It wasn't difficult then either.

But the type of people taking the test are not your typical uni students. Those type of people, unlikely to be driving lorries or taxis. For bookworm types, you just hit the book(s) like mad for two or three days, and then ace the test. Simple. But our friends who fail and have to re-test ... some never read an entire book since they were in primary school. Not even their own school text books. They're not stupid. They just have a different kind of brain, optimized for other tasks, besides memorizing huge chunks of printed text. I'm sure you know some of them. Hearing that they have to take any test at all ... they think back to their school days, ages ago, when they sucked ... they psyched themselves out before they even sit for the test.

My mom only made it to Form 3. Didn't even complete that. And it was a Mandarin school to boot. Her BM and English was really terrible. When it come time for theory to get her D so that she can drive the car, she keep saying she cannot do. She was nearly 60 by then (driving school say she's their oldest student ever), and never wrote a sentence in English or BM since school. But we worked with her, encouraged her, helped her study the book. Unfortunately for her, she was also one of the first with the then new computerized tests, so even the driving school couldn't tell her what it was like. She worried about how to use a computer to pass a test, but she passed on the first try.

From this thread I can see that 'Well to do' peasant are laughing at the 'Not well to do illiterate' peasant who have to drive Grab for a living. The same people are also bitching about Rich vs Poor divide.

u r telling me these grab drivers can't read the road signs n instructions that are in BM?

what if there is a sign saying "Bahaya! Putar Balik! Jambatan Patah" and my grab driver drive terus saja?

i guess this directly put grab drivers at the lowest "literacy" among all the commercial vehicle drivers... how they get their driving license, probably also from "i help you, you help me model"..