Still weekend :-)

[lnr]

Glad I took a long one. Theory test at 10 (about to head out). TV due today. If it arrives early enough and the weather cooperates we'll probably go punting this afternoon, just the two of us.

Update: passed! 35/35 on multiple guess, 53/75 points on hazard perception. Another 2 years to sort out the practical aspect then.

Comments

[daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good use of a gorgeous day. Have fun!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Hope the test has gone well! And fingers crossed for the plans for the rest of the day. See you tomorrow!

[angua.livejournal.com]

Raaaah! Congrats!

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done. Roll on the practical :)

[keirf.livejournal.com]

Remember you only have to pass the practical once to be allowed to drive for the next 40 years or so.

[lnr]

Nuisance that, I seem to be able to get the theory right no problem, but the practical has evaded me twice through my own fault and once through a nearly-broken finger.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

So you've really only failed it twice. England is full of people who've taken more goes than that to pass. I bet you a pint of your favorite Cambridge winter beer festival tipple that you pass on your next go.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Well done.

I assume we're talking some new-fangled driving test?

[lnr]

Very new fangled, the theory questions are re-written since July this year, and the Hazard Perception isn't that old, certainly come in since the last time I had to take it 2 years ago. Not looking forward to the extra bit of theory that is now part of the practical test too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3197645.stm

Though I reckon I'd do better on a real car instead of such a crappy picture of one!

[sparrowsion]

better on a real car

Yeah, I failed to identify anything correctly on that picture apart from the dipstick and the battery. On a real car you can generally see useful things like labels and where pipes are going.

[catyak]

If I'd been given that picture and those questions in a test I'd be writing letters of complaint by now. The labels obscure various interesting and useful details, not that the picture is particularly clear anyway. I got 5/10 whereas I'd expect to get 10/10 on a real engine where I could actually see what was connected to what.

D

[k425.livejournal.com]

Congrats on passing and erk on the practical bit - I had a look at the page and well, I can do some of those things on Rapunzel's car cos he's shown me how, but of course, it looks totally different from that photo!

[lnr]

Well, in the test itself I'll probably be driving my instructor's car, and I expect him to show me the innards of the car in particular if it's not obvious. I'd expect it would be much more obvious than that picture anyway. I don't know exactly what the full set of possible questions is, but there are ones on things like how to check your lights are working as well, and I think the instructor picks two from a list.

Dunno who instructor will be at that point, thinking of doing an intensive course, not sure if I need 10 hours or 15, will be a bit rusty not having driven since June, but it shouldn't be much more than knocking me back into shape and teaching me any of this new fangled stuff I didn't already know.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Definately; I only got three of the questions correct on the "locate the $foo" part. That is mainly due to the crapness of the picture more than anything else.

After all its kinda hard to tell the difference between one translucent plastic container and another in a random car engine :)

[simont]

Good grief, yes, that's an appalling picture!

And a stupid idea too; cars actually come with manuals. The first time I want to know where to look for the oil dipstick in my car, I just RTFM! It's always worked for me so far.

(And I don't see why I should need to know the thing about tyre legality either, since I own a dedicated tyre gauge with a convenient mark to indicate the minimum legal tread depth. All I need to know is where I last left the gauge, and they can't ask me that in a test ;-)

Still, congrats on being adequately theoretical. Or something like that. :-) *hugs*

[imc.livejournal.com]

3 out of 9!! General agreement re the crapness of the picture, and yes I do know where to find my car's manual. :-)

[aldabra]

Well, I didn't dare do this at all until I saw that everyone else couldn't do it either! And then I got 6, which is cheering. I don't think much of the interface either; what's A: B; B: A doing in a multichoice? And then the results say Wrong; K is correct; M is the radiator cap, and you think piss off, it's the radiator cap I was looking for, and then you work out it's actually agreeing with you.

And the garage said I didn't need a new passenger side front tyre yet and the tread is barely visible...

Congrats, anyway.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lois_/]

RAR Congratulations on passing :)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

passed!

Yay! Go you.

[nilasae.livejournal.com]

w00t ;-) congrats!

[mhk.livejournal.com]

Well done you!