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dasuttan wrote:

I would like to take Omani driving license.
i think it is very difficult to pass the test on road.
can i get any advices and tips of getting license very smoothly.

Hello dasuttan,

To any Asian expatriate obtaining an Omani Driving Licence is a daunting task for sure. If you are one, like the many that come here, who has already learnt driving and was driving back home, then the biggest challenge is to unlearn whatever youÂ’ve learnt. Fortunately, many European and American expatriates, (including even the South Africans) get an Omani driving licence by merely showing their native driving licence and without having to go through the ordeal of the various tests which an Asian expat has to go through !!

For starters if you come from India, you wouldÂ’ve been driving on the left-hand side of the road. Here in Oman, you drive on the right-hand side. You must relearn everything from the basics - the proper and correct way of following / reading the road signs; right usage of lanes; negotiating a roundabout properly; usage of indicators, and such. I know no one teaches you these things the way it should be taught (i.e., correctly) back home !

Don’t pay any large sum (like R.O. 500 – R.O. 600) to your driving instructor towards obtaining your driving licence up front. Your instructor will promise you the earth, but will (most likely) scoot (with your book, so you can’t even go to another instructor) on receiving the money from you. You will be left high and dry ! Check with your colleagues and acquaintances and upon their recommendation choose a driving instructor you feel comfortable with. I’ve heard horror stories of how some instructors talk impolitely and sometimes even hit their startled students if they make some mistake during their driving lessons. To be in control, you pay your instructor only by the hour (R.O. 6), after your lessons. That way he cannot run away with your book thereby leaving you in the lurch !

Once you’re done with these preliminaries, the first big challenge is to clear the ‘Eye Test’ (mandatory), the ‘Traffic Sign Test’ (easiest of all tests), the following ‘Drums Test’ (practice, practice and practice) and then the ‘Slope Test’ (practice makes perfect). If you’re done with these successfully, then you’ve won half the battle.

Before you are ready for the final ‘Road Test’, take as many or as few driving lessons depending on your driving comfort level. Be confident. Stay assertive. Remain positive. Always ... and especially when you’re taking your driving test. Don’t be nervous. And if not in the first attempt (oh yes, there are a lucky few who have managed to get their driving licence in their very first attempt), you will surely get your licence soon enough.

Remember, whatever happens ... donÂ’t give up. Ever !

Good luck !

sunil74 wrote:

dear sir,

I have valid UAE driving license with Automatic option. When I visit to ROP to convert into Oman driving license  they informed to me  according to new rule implemented from Jan 2013 we canÂ’t convert UAE driving license automatic option (if its manual we can change but in my case its automatic).

Please someone advise me how to change my UAE license or I will have to start from the beginning with manual option for the Oman driving license.

Thank you
sunil

In this case you would have to undertake the driving test in order to get the Omani driving license.

The other option is to try to covert your UAE driving license from Automatic Option to Manual Option then convert it to Omani one; but I don't know how visible this option

maradymtp wrote:

I am now also in the bad mood of getting license in Oman. I tried many times for Road Test, but failed! Sometimes, I wished to give up and do not want to take care of that anymore but as my family's requirement, i need to try hard and spent a lot of money on Driving Training and Test.

Do you want to know what were my mistake?
Well,  nothing much sometime the police said I was too late to park, too late to leave out of parking or jumping to the road too fast...etc.

The problem is all polices had the different idea. When I did not move in to the road when the vehicles were coming, they said why I was still there and never moved? Then, I used that experiences to practise with other police, he stopped me and said " why don't you wait? "

6 times of Road Test is too much for me already as i was driving in Cambodia more than 5 years. But what to do? Let's see my seventh try!!!

I hope they will have something change about this kind of test program.
Best Luck to everybody!
Thanks

Got mine on the 5th try.....3x qurum 2x rustaq, try for rustaq, roads are less complicated