Everybody is different and learns thing at different paces. I also did automatic only so that makes it easier.
The theory was the one for me. Couldn’t bring myself to study, damn ADHD, but I do have general common sense and I pick up things from the environment so I figured I could just hope I got questions I knew. Failed once then passed next one.
My mate gave me his theory CD that was endorsed by the AA or BSM or something, I just repeatedly did the exam….passed the theory exam second time, cause I failed hazard perception the first time.
I think it made my driving worse. I remember after doing it, my instructor was asking why I was braking when I saw drivers roll into give way junctions ahead of me. Because in the hazard perception, they show you videos where people just go straight out!
I was taught if you see a hazard click as soon as you see it, then click again two more times. The reason being that these things are programmed by humans and when the programmer deems the hazard to be a hazard and when you deem the hazard to be a hazard may be slightly differently timed. Bit of a shit system really but I don’t really know how they could test it differently without a similar issue of tester and testee having different reaction times.
And I also supplemented with a g25 wheel/pedal set and ETS2.
Which helped more than you might expect (gear positions, clutch control, dealing with other traffic, blind spots)
G25 has been lent out to multiple friends to do the same thing too, so definitely paid for itself.
Theory, once you’re paying attention to the road in general, isn’t too bad at all. I paid about a fiver for month’s access to a revision website, which had the material, and almost identical hazard perception clips.
£5000? Jesus Christ, hope that’s atypical since I’m planning on trying to get a license this year.
It’s quite typical iirc
I did it in 25 hours at £30 per hour.
Everybody is different and learns thing at different paces. I also did automatic only so that makes it easier.
The theory was the one for me. Couldn’t bring myself to study, damn ADHD, but I do have general common sense and I pick up things from the environment so I figured I could just hope I got questions I knew. Failed once then passed next one.
My mate gave me his theory CD that was endorsed by the AA or BSM or something, I just repeatedly did the exam….passed the theory exam second time, cause I failed hazard perception the first time.
I used James May videos
Hazard perception is hard af at first.
Yep, I did my test in 2004 and it was quite new at the time…I seem to remember there being complaints about how it wasn’t based in reality.
I think it made my driving worse. I remember after doing it, my instructor was asking why I was braking when I saw drivers roll into give way junctions ahead of me. Because in the hazard perception, they show you videos where people just go straight out!
I was taught if you see a hazard click as soon as you see it, then click again two more times. The reason being that these things are programmed by humans and when the programmer deems the hazard to be a hazard and when you deem the hazard to be a hazard may be slightly differently timed. Bit of a shit system really but I don’t really know how they could test it differently without a similar issue of tester and testee having different reaction times.
As a programmer I would have clicks within a given range of frames and these data points should be provided by the people facilitating the tests.
I did…I want to say about 35 hours?
And I also supplemented with a g25 wheel/pedal set and ETS2.
Which helped more than you might expect (gear positions, clutch control, dealing with other traffic, blind spots)
G25 has been lent out to multiple friends to do the same thing too, so definitely paid for itself.
Theory, once you’re paying attention to the road in general, isn’t too bad at all. I paid about a fiver for month’s access to a revision website, which had the material, and almost identical hazard perception clips.