by fungus » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:36 pm
This afternoon at the Bournemouth test centre the manager held a surgery for those who were present.
One of the issues raised was that of independant driving. The candidate will be told to either, follow the signs to X, Y or Z. Be given a schematic map which will be large in detail, eg. A large simple diagram showing for instance, left at the end of the road, left first exit at the next roundabout, then the second road on the right, or given a set of three instructions,eg. at the end of the road turn right, then take the second road on the left, and at the end of that road turn left.
It appears that the fact that a candidate forgets part of the instructions and needs to ask for clarifaction, will not result in a fail. The test will be marked in the usual way, in that only faults that affect, or have the potential to affect another road user will be taken into account. In fact the manager said that he expected some candidates to foget the first part of the instruction by the time they had got to the end of the road. The way I understood it, was that it would be marked like eco driving is at the moment, ie. just a line through a box if the candidate does not perform reasonably efficiently in that element.
Nigel ADI
IAM observer