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Gordo:
I always struggle with the hazard perception test because I read the road too far ahead, anticipate the "hazard" and click the thingy too early. I suspect for a novice driver (and I don't mean that in a negative sense) it's easier because they wait until the hazard is actually happening before clicking.

Quite a few people I know who have advanced driving qualifications, e.g RoSPA, struggle with it too.

As for the theory test containing stuff on emissions...  :-k

Saffy:
44/50 ON TEST 1 and same 44/50 for 2nd. Passed test in early 90's.
Tend not to remember things like exact stopping distances as they mean nothing other than making one aware that more speed = bigger distance need to stop in.
Didn't know that using hazards when rapidly slowing down because of a hazard ahead was allowed or in the highway code.  I have seen it being done, usually by lorry drivers. But pretty sure when I took test that hazards where only to be used on static vehicles.
Grey "zone ends" signs  :huh: do not really care that I did not know what they meant.
 Only wrong answer embarrassed about was about the broken white line in middle of road meaning there is a hazard ahead -  go figure.

Disco Matt:
I was very baffled recently by a similar BBC quiz. Apparently it now breaches emissions laws to have an engine idling for a length of time unless it's to diagnose a fault? I can understand noise, but what a petty, net curtain twitching jobsworth piece of legislation!

I did my test about nine years ago now and there was none of it, just questions that related to being a safe, skilled driver.

V8MoneyPit:
43/50. I passed my test in 1982, so fall into the catagory you are asking.

I did find one or two of the answers ambiguous though. More than one answer would have been correct in certain circumstances.

Llanigraham:
48/50, so not too bad.
It was useful, having passed my test in May 71, to have had a job recently that required all company drivers to take an Advanced Course, and to do a refresher every 2 years.

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