[Closed] Theory Test

I just re-took mine, it's so much harder than it was 5 years ago when I took it first time. Take a break from it it's easy to get snowed under and all the facts and numbers get mixed up in your head. I used the iPhone app from AA for £1.19 and it was a godsend and so mch cheaper. Good luck and relax

if you cant pass a theory test then you shouldnt be allowed on the road in my opinion....

hang on...

I think I'll pass I always do on my cd test, I'll be reeling if I get a bunch of crap questions and fail!!

What are the parking rules.

If on a 40mph road you have to have side lights on and face which way?

You can't tax a car without a MOT or insurance. You can't insure a car without??

Money

face which way?

So the steering wheel is in front of you

I hope you weren't expecting help and support Tails.

Dink! I'll take that 50/50 mucked up hazard a bit but still passed! Think i was a bit trigger happy! Now the hard part to go!!

No idea on any of them. 😉

Congratulations, have you got your practical booked?

no not yet as I have only had 4 lessons, so have a fair bit to learn.

The Hazard perception is rubbish. I failed it the first time when I did my HGV test, one of the example failed tests that stuck in my mind was:

Small child playing with a ball on the side of the road, ball is dropped and role towards the road, child runs after ball, I click but no I clicked too early, you are not meant to react until the ball come on to the road. Clearly a little late.

I think the Hazard tests a great idea in thoery, but in practice the clicking can seem a little vague, simuarly there's a clip were a cyclist pulls out of a side road and cuts infront of you. If you click as soon as the cyclist appears you get marked down. You get top marks if you click as he pulls infront of you without him checking the road. Surely as he approaches the road and you spot early enough is better than to react just as something goes wrong? I expect said cyclist posts on this forum... Anyone know that fool?

Agreed the idea behind it is excellent but the execution of it it is sub-par.

Yeah it is not the best but I clicked a couple of times for each so your almost guaranteed to get a score of some sort. I had a couple of sheep in the road on mine today . . . . hazard or dinner ❓

I clicked pretty randomly during mine....I passed, not a good system imo.

Yup, I had to re-do the hazard one (I passed it once then left it 2 years before my test, doh) and on the second time I nearly failed just because of the uselessness of the test itself. But still, possibly better than nothing. The click analysis just isn't good enough at the end of the day.

The problem of the theory test is that so many of the questions just aren't very relevant. Stopping distances give everyone trouble because the official stopping distances are so ridiculously long, for instance, the "correct" answers feel wrong to any experienced driver. And the roadsigns, aaargh! I got 2 roadsign questions on trams. "What does this sign mean?" "It means I'm pretty bloody lost, there's no trams in scotland!"

And then the inefficiency of the system, I had to wait a month for mine but both times I've done it, people got turned away for having the wrong documents, and others just didn't turn up. So if you're in a hurry, they could easily fit you in, but there's no attempt to do so. That's really crap tbh.

I think the new test the questions myself and Tails have just taken are much more relevent than there used to be. There's alot less focus on actual stopping distances and more on attitude and awareness. Rules of the road seem to have same amount of attention. Plus you need to assume that if your taking the test your most likely not an experienced driver so may need more thinking and reaction time before stopping. The new practical test looks harder but a big improvement too. I'm surprised the hazard perception hasn't evolved as it's such a good idea executed so badly. Just for trial I took one of the free clips on the DVLA site and clicked every 5 seconds, I passed. Surely the whole test is open to manipulation?

Get a practice DVD.

The hazard perception exercise is a bit of a hit and miss affair. I know a Police trained riders who have failed this. It's because they click on emerging hazards too soon.

Personally I think the whole things bollox, you be far better having to take say 100 hours training as opposed to the test scenario.

100+ hours training at £22 a lesson... Ouch. Training is both academic and practical, my Swedish ex said over there it's really hard to pass your test and trainings intense.

My wife & I have been driving for neary 20 years each. We both took the hazard perception test. She got 42%, I got 98%. I have had 1 accident since I passed my test, she had 3 in the same year!

She seems to think [i]I'm[/i] a bad driver!

Yup, 100 hours might be good for some (apparently the average is around 70 hours, 2/3ds paid for training and 1/3rd practice in own car) but it took me, oh, 15 hours to get to test standard for motorbikes and then I think about 16 hours to get to test standard for cars. And not talking about "training to pass the test" here either.

I'm sure some people'd benefit but for others it'd just be an extra grand spent.

I think 70 hours is a bit much, I think it's closer to 40. My friend took one of these weekend courses and passed after 17 hours. It's not made him a better driver though, it was a sunny weekend no rain or night driving. There's too much competition to rush through training and not get enough experience under instruction, hopefully the new sections in the driving test will improve driver attitude.

The theory test is so easy, the question bit is unbelievably easy I got 100% 3 years ago. hazard perception is harder being police driver we are taught anything on the road is a hazard Si as someone said earlier I would xhixhk on everything. Then it thinks you are guessing and gives you a big fat zero. but again it is esy to train to pass.

Average is something like 76 hrs including private practice.

Hazard perception is a nightmare for a good experienced driver to pass as they spot the hazards before the marking window opens.

just read more and get more info in your head,. pile your brain with info. Click more than u think you should! good luck mate!

Average is 47 hours instructed lessons, 40 hours to get to level 5 on each core skill. I've looked it up on DVLA, how sad I am. I've yet to know anyone whose needed 70+ hours of instructed lessons, if you had one a week that's nearly a year and a half to pass!! The thoery got harder this year the pass rate is down by over 36%

Hazard perception is a nightmare for a good experienced driver to pass as they spot the hazards before the marking window opens.

Maybe the people who set the test misguidedly think learners have slower reactions than eanyone else.

Spongebob - Member

"Maybe the people who set the test misguidedly think learners have slower reactions than eanyone else."

A total novice on the road will spot hazards slower but you can't make the test on the basis that the person doing it is clueless- I had about 50000 miles on motorbikes before I did the car hazard test, for instance, and a lot of people will have experience on pushbikes, or will just have been paying attention when driving with others (or will already be driving before they do the hazard test). So it should cater for that, and IMO definately doesn't.