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Hard init. I've failed it once, a few years ago. This time I'm studying, I've got 3 books, 'road signs, highway code, the theory test questions' and a dvd with mock exams that I use every evening.
3 weeks to go......

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Originally posted by yo its me
Hard init. I've failed it once, a few years ago. This time I'm studying, I've got 3 books, 'road signs, highway code, the theory test questions' and a dvd with mock exams that I use every evening.
3 weeks to go......
Is this a driving test, or an academic exam?

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Is this a driving test, or an academic exam?
First the theory test, then the practical.
The theory test is 50 mulitable choice questions and a hazard perception test. The first time I took the test there wasn't the second part, but I just did a mock hazard perception and I got 66% (44% is a pass) so I'm not worried about that part. There's just so much to learn for the other tests, there are 1,200 posiable questions- some are just common sense and some are factual, stopping distances, first aid and stuff about fuel efficency that just have to be learnt. It's quiet expencive so I don't want to be taking it lots!
Do you have anything like it where you are?

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Originally posted by yo its me
First the theory test, then the practical.
The theory test is 50 mulitable choice questions and a hazard perception test. The first time I took the test there wasn't the second part, but I just did a mock hazard perception and I got 66% (44% is a pass) so I'm not worried about that part. There's just so much to learn for the other tests, there are 1,200 p ...[text shortened]... xpencive so I don't want to be taking it lots!
Do you have anything like it where you are?
No, they just assign us a machine gun and a grenade launcher, and tell us to have fun on the roads.

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Sounds exactually like the car hazzard awareness test.
I passed!! :]
I had hte test today, 1pm. I was so nervous, the bus was running late, I couldn't find the building, I didn't recognise 3 of the questions....
But hey it's all okay in the end. It lasts 2 years, so I need to find an instructor now for my practical lessons and take the practical test within the two years.

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Originally posted by yo its me
Sounds exactually like the car hazzard awareness test.
I passed!! :]
I had hte test today, 1pm. I was so nervous, the bus was running late, I couldn't find the building, I didn't recognise 3 of the questions....
But hey it's all okay in the end. It lasts 2 years, so I need to find an instructor now for my practical lessons and take the practical test within the two years.
Congratulations!

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Congratulations!
Thank you
๐Ÿ™‚

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Originally posted by yo its me
but I just did a mock hazard perception and I got 66% (44% is a pass) so I'm not worried about that part.
Good to know you'll only kill a third of the people you notice crossing the road... ๐Ÿ˜›

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Originally posted by cadwah
Good to know you'll only kill a third of the people you notice crossing the road... ๐Ÿ˜›
Reasuring isn't it ๐Ÿ˜›

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Originally posted by yo its me
Sounds exactually like the car hazzard awareness test.
I passed!! :]
I had hte test today, 1pm. I was so nervous, the bus was running late, I couldn't find the building, I didn't recognise 3 of the questions....
But hey it's all okay in the end. It lasts 2 years, so I need to find an instructor now for my practical lessons and take the practical test within the two years.
Well done, YIM. Take a few deep breaths and begin planning a nice dinner to celebrate!

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44% is a pass? jesus.

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Originally posted by trev33
44% is a pass? jesus.
Sort of similar to an acceptable chess win/loss percentage.

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Originally posted by trev33
44% is a pass? jesus.
Yeah, I got that wrong, sorry. It's 44 out of 75 marks from 15 developing hazards;
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/LearnerAndNewDrivers/TheoryTest/DG_4022534

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Originally posted by yo its me
Yeah, I got that wrong, sorry. It's 44 out of 75 marks from 15 developing hazards;
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/LearnerAndNewDrivers/TheoryTest/DG_4022534
44 divided by 75 = 59%........ higher than most of our rhp chess win percentages. Yeah, YIM for scoring 66%!