How to do reverse bay parking on your driving test.

Step-by-step guide to reverse bay parking

1. Drive alongside the bays that you will use and stop about a metre (about a car doors width) away from them, straighten your car and stop. Select reverse and observe all around, especially behind you.

2. Once you've observed all around and it's safe, reverse in a straight line until you get to your point of turn.

The reference point for this point of turn will be when the first line of the first bay disapears into the car near the door handle. This point of turn can vary slightly depending on what car you're driving and in some cars it's possible to see the bays out of your backside window.

Using this point of turn will get you into the third bay along.

The arrow on the picture is pointing at the first line of the first bay and you will aim to go into the third bay along.

Once you've observed all around, drive slowly and immediately steer quickly full lock (maximum) to the left.

3. Once you're in the bay and you can see that you are straight (check that your dashboard is running parallel with something in front, or you can see the side lines in your side mirrors) then straighten your wheels to the right and reverse straight into the bay.

Observe over both your shoulders as you drive slowly. Stop once you're in the bay.

As a last resort, you can drive forward to re-adjust your position and then reverse back in.

That's how to do bay parking. Hope it's been useful.