Horse wrote:Kimosabe wrote:Horse wrote:Is there now, or planned to be, any element of self-analysis, comparing the candidate's opinion of the drive against the examiner's?
My IAM examiner gave me the opportunity to discuss his findings at the end of my test, as did the excellent RoSPA examiner, with whom I went for an 'experienced driver assessment' yesterday. Is this not what happens usually?
Not discuss - as (again, we're in semantic of individual words) they to me implies justification.
Instead, I'm thinking that the debrief should start with the candidate considering their own performance, 'go to woe' - and having it 'calibrated' against the examiner's views.
'Discuss' in the way I meant it - 'to explore in greater detail' and not in order to argue with or attempt to change the examiner's findings.
The post-drive debrief began with a 'so how was that for you?' type of opening question and me being me, how it was for me, was never going to be as good as I would have liked it to have been. I sometimes put myself in the 'could do better' category and I'm not at a standard that I am happy with yet, so I won't be taking any tests until I am.
His style of commenting and supporting suited me perfectly and one area for future work is overtaking or should I say, creating greater potential for overtaking by setting myself up, for example, when entering bends with a view to what could happen on the straight after a bend.
I received my paper report and certificate on Friday and i'm very grateful for all the comments made with regard to areas for further development. The Experienced Driver Assessment was a very worthwhile thing to do.
So where next? As I say, i've joined RoADAR and i'm awaiting contact regarding observed drives. It looks like the IAM-RoADAR-HPC well-worn path of progress, is the one i'm on and all is good.