“Are you ready for your theory test? Well, about half the people taking the theory test will come away with the smile on their face and about half come away feeling very disheartened and very miserable. About half people taking the theory test will have failed.
So, how do you know whether you are ready to take your test or not? One key element of this is to talk to your driving instructor.
Your driving instructor will be able to help you understand where your strengths and weaknesses are and help point you in the right direction for getting the theory test into your head, under your belt, so that when you go for your theory test, you’re more likely to pass it.
Okay. So, what have you done so far?
Hopefully, you’ve been reading the Highway Code, Know Your Traffic Signs, Driving: The Essential Skills and maybe one or two others. They are the sources of the questions on the theory test. That’s where the questions come from. So there’s maybe on any given page of one of those books, the theory test has got two or three questions about it. So, if you’ve read that page and you understand that page then any questions on it won’t be a problem for you.
If, however, all you’ve done is gone through some apps and done some mock tests, you may well be starting to memorise questions and the correct answers. Remember, of course that for every question, the correct answer is in front of you and that’s quite helpful, isn’t it?
It’s a bit of a cheat in a way when you’re driving along and you encounter a road sign or a road situation that you can’t work out what to do next. You don’t have a question come in front of you like on a head’s up display with four options for you to have a look at, one of which is the correct answer.
No. You’ve actually got to work out what to do pretty much in an instant. You’ve got to encounter that road sign and know what that road sign is and know what to do with it. You need to encounter some road markings or actions of another road user. You need to work out almost of an instant what to do. So, it’s important.
So here’s a bit of advice for practicing a little bit further, a bit deeper with your multiple choice question part of the theory test. In the mock test and in the apps, you were presented like in on the test with a question and four options. One of the options is correct. Sometimes it’s patently obvious which is the corerct answer. Sometimes, yes, you do have to do a little bit of thought and working out. But when you’re driving, you do have to do a little bit of thought and working out. But when you’re driving, you do not have that luxury.
You need to know your stuff.
So when you think you’re doing okay and you’ve done some reading, you’ve done some apps, you’ve done some mock tests, get a friend or a relative or somebody you like and ask them to read the questions just like, you know, from a mock test or from an app or whatever, but only the questions.
You therefore don’t have any options in front of you. You therefore do not have the right answer in front of you. So, use it as a brilliant opportunity for identifying the questions you really know fine and you really understand and you’re okay, absolutely wonderful with and then the ones that you don’t.
If you can’t give a really good answer to any of the questions with only the question in front of you, then you need to go back, do a little bit. more study, talk to your driving instructor, have a word with any of your friends who are taking driving lessons, have ac hat about what they think about things as well.
So there’s some thoughts about it. We’ve got the hazard perception thing to talk about as well yet. So, keep in tune.
Thanks for watching.”
