jaykay42 Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Evening all It's time to get my middle son ready for his theory driving test. Now, it's been a few years since I passed mine and everyone was driving on the other side of the road, too - measuring stopping distances in metres and not having a clue of mph - how quaint, I know. So, which material can you recommend for me to use with him? Being the modern world, maybe an app rather than a paper book is likely to see more use... Any tried and tested suggestions? Thank you, all. Jens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 A good mate who is an instructor, tells his clients to watch stuff on YouTube, in between lesson's, never seen whats there about it, but other than still having to buy a highway code book, it's called something else today I think, but same thing. I can contact him and ask whats about in 2023 if you want for the online generation. I keep meaning to ask him to take me out , just to see if I would pass again today, chickened out so far, lol... ETA, yeah a fair amount on there - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=passing+the+car+theory+test This looks a good one, many more like it though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaykay42 Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 Hi Richard Thank you for your quick response. Yes, please do ask him - that would be very helpful. I did have a Google search and read a few websites - don't mind paying my 4.99 or 9.99 if I can be confident that the material is good. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Beat you to it, the joys of whatsapp, lol. He works odd hours ( for obvious reasons) , ah as I was typing he got back to me hang on, "Hi Rich. I usually recommend the DVSA app. It's about £4.99. There are a few cheaper ones or even some for free. But the DVSA are the governing body who do the tests. So all the questions are on there app.and the hazard perception clips." ETA More on the app - "The app is very good. You can do mock tests and it explains the answers if you get them wrong. You have 50 questions on your test and have to get 43 to pass. There are 1200 questions to pick from on that app.Then on the hazard perception test there are 14 clips each clip is marked out 5 points on that you have to get 44 points out of 72..you have to pass both tests on the day for a overall pass." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evosteve Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 I am sure there are plenty of mock tests you can practice to get a feeling for how the test will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 He has just said, he is at 3 sisters tomorrow working for a blind charity, I didn't even know that was a "thing". Teaching them to get around the track, not sure if thats at speed or not, but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaykay42 Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 Hi! Thanks all! Not sure who is braver: the blind driver or the sighted passenger with a blind pilot. Awesome in both cases, I reckon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Just now, jaykay42 said: Hi! Thanks all! Not sure who is braver: the blind driver or the sighted passenger with a blind pilot. Awesome in both cases, I reckon! I can't shut him up now , bit like me, lol. "A lot of the blind people bring there familys along . The Porsche uk club and jag club and a few rally cars come to do passenger fast laps for them. The best part is we have the track to our shelves from 9.30 to 10.00.to practice our sight lines and braking points. And when the day is over at about 3.00. The manager give us free range of the track . But he does say don't do anything think to stupid.ha ha. Has there are no marshal then. Just hope the weather is ok.which I think it is." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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