Failing Traffic School

It depends on the circumstances. If you fail traffic school while trying to expunge a citation from your driving record, the DMV will not remove the citation from your record. If you fail traffic school that was a requirement of some driving-related conviction, you will either have to retake driving school or suffer some other form of punishment, like jail time.

Most people attend traffic school in order to get a citation removed from their driving record. In this case, you normally take an 8-hour course, at the end of which you are required to pass a final examination. To fail traffic school, you either fail the final exam or violate some other rule, like not showing up on time or leaving early.

Retaking the Exam

If you fail the final exam, many online traffic schools will allow you to retake the exam indefinitely until you pass. However, many traditional in-person traffic schools only give you one shot at passing the exam.

If you commit some other violation, such as showing up late or cheating, you will fail traffic school unequivocally. If you fail traffic school in this context, the citation you received will remain on your driving record, which means you will have points added to your record and your insurance company will likely raise your rates.

Keep in mind, if you’re given the opportunity to retake the final exam, by all means go back and review the material until you’re able to pass the course. In the case where traffic school was assigned by the court as punishment for a driving-related conviction, failure would either result in having to retake the course or some other punishment.

In some cases, more serious punishment is suspended pending traffic school completion. If you fail traffic school, you might have to endure the suspended punishment after all, which may include jail time. The best recommendation is to pay attention in traffic school and learn all you can. If you do, you’ll more than likely pass traffic school and you’ll have nothing to worry about.

Order a Record

Once you pass traffic school, you can check your own driving record to make sure it’s clean. Order your driving record online in a fast and convenient way.