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I probably benefitted from this. When I took my test, the driving school booked the exam for me. I failed the first time, and expected to need to wait a month f

I probably benefitted from this. When I took my test, the driving school booked the exam for me. I failed the first time, and expected to need to wait a month for the next available exam (according to the website) but the school arranged one the following week. There was no additional cost, so I expect another student wasn't ready and they changed the name to mine. That's a legitimate reason to allow swapping the name, although it would be fairer if they were forced to cancel the appointment.

jiminymcmoogley 3y ago
What's legitimate about that? That it saves the inefficiency of leaving an empty slot? I'd have thought a system that offers both the same legitimacy and more fairness too would have test bookings arranged in a stack, where cancelled slots get offered to whoever is booked into the proceeding one should they wish to move it forward, or if they don't, then whoever had the next slot booked after that, and so on. So any holes that come up in the schedule get closed pretty quickly, and nobody gets preferential treatment simply because their driving school happened to own the other slots