It's on Monday on ITV1, but there's a practice version available at their website.
drivtest.carltononline.com/gameNopopup.htm
I got 34/35, but that's unsurprising because I took my theory test this time last year. Word of advice, to change your answer, you need to click again on your answer to deselect it.
Given that it seems to answer many of the same questions as the normal theory test I was astonished to see that the average score is around 26. Does this mean that all these people have insufficient road knowledge to drive safely?
(Also like question 8, it should remind people not to use foglights :))
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I got 34 too - one less than in 1998 when I did my actual theory test... back in the days when it was a pencil and paper job!
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I also got 34. Although it very helpfully didn't tell me which one I got wrong.
Best hope it's not a life-threatening lack of knowledge!
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I only got 27. Some of the questions didn't allow me enough time ~ I'm not very good at computer games either. Must be getting (or already am!) old.
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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33 for me. Frustrating not knowing where I went wrong.
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DVD,
Nine months!
What would he have got for handing out 150 guns - which kill less than the 3000 or so road deaths per year?
Matt35.
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I got 33, ran out of time on two while still reading!
Men 26
Women 24
are the current averages
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I got 34, but then I don't agree with the answers!
Q3: Red and Amber means Stop
Next light will be Green
....according to my copy of the Highway Code.
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I got 34, but then I don't agree with the answers! Q3: Red and Amber means Stop Next light will be Green ....according to my copy of the Highway Code.
That's what I put for that question, and ended with only one wrong. Perhaps you got this correct, and went wrong elsewhere?
I think the question was 'can you drive through this light'
Had it been amber only, the answer would be 'yes - if not safe to stop', but amber+red, obviously you should already be at a halt, so no, you can't drive through.
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Perhaps you got this correct, and went wrong elsewhere?
But the answers given on the site are:
YES and RED which are not correct!
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I didn't even see anywhere on the site which had the answers. Although, I have to admit, I didn't look terribly hard.
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32 from 35, but could not get it to show the answers. Laoding rather slow on a dila up connection.
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Perhaps it's the red herring answer to catch anyone claiming a top score?
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Was distracted in the nanosecond the results were shown. Doh!
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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did any one else see that programme tonight about who is the best driver, Male or Female with questions on the highway code???
I scored 30 - I do believe that I just passed, wish I had entered properly now for a chance to win a car, oh well never mind.
What did you score?
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Did not bother to record a score, but thought there were one or two dodgy answers. For example the one regarding the overtaking motorcyclist cutting in. Alternative answers included either keep a safe distance or brake firmly, the first being correct. But then it might be necessary to brake firmly in order to keep a safe distance?
Strictly the word "end" on a motorway matrix marks the cessation of a cautionary warning, not a restriction. The word "fog" is not a restriction and neither is the advisory speed limit.
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me 33/35 didn't get the end of parking restriction sign and failed to convert feet to metres corrctly for the stopping distance
Mrs H 31/35
anyone else played?
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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I did. Got 33 too I think. Failed to twig the red Xs on the motorway meant stop now, I put get off at the next exit which seems far more logical. The picture showed a lorry in the distance beyond the gantry with them on. I guessed at the feet into metres and assumed the highest one would be stopping distance from seventy (300ft roughly 100m) so second highest was probably for sixty!
Interesting information on how many accidents are caused by tiredness too.
teabelly
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32 out of 35. Passed test nearly 20 years ago.
BTW what mark or percentage do you have to get to pass the real thing?
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Remember how the members of the audience teams voiced a "Yaaaaayyyy!!!" every time they'd got it right when the answers were read-out?
I could swear that the quietest, most feeble "yaay" occurred when the "The left lane" was read-out as the answer to "Which lane must you drive in on entering a motorway" (or words to that effect).
More fodder to NoDosh's 'New Dual Carriageway' lament.
(btw Charles, still 30 out of 35, isn't it?)
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I only saw about half an hour of this, but that was quite enough for me. It was, in my opinion, typical of the dumbed-down trash that passes for factual television these days.
I know that stuffy old road safety films no longer do the trick, but to use the same approach with the adult viewers as one does with a toddler (ie make a boring subject 'fun' so that the child will learn more) is, quite frankly, insulting.
And all the flirting between Dr Fox and Gaby Whateverhernameis was so obviously false as to be amusing!
Cheers
Rob
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I did the same Rob only I only lasted a quarter of an hour. It seems some people like large portions of Cheddar with thier evening TV (the wife's comment). It just seems to devalue the arguments that the motorist often makes by portraying car drivers in a not highly intelligent light.
And I didn't even like the car they were offering as a prize.........
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Rob it was Gaby-famousbecauseofwhomydadisandthesizeofmychest-Logan wasn't it?
Personally I think Richard Hammond would have been a better choice :)
And yes, I've been revising all day, honestly!
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Personally I think Richard Hammond would have been a better choice
I bet you fancied Baldrick too PG!
Agree with Rob's comments.
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Interesting thing about this for me was that my wife (been driving for about 20 years) only beat 11-year-old son (not particularly interested in driving, but fairly intelligent) by one point!
Not sure which of them that says more about.....
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32/35 just played for fun!
made me think neil fox was a pratt will all those silly
coments he came out with.
Someone in braintree won the blue car, will be keeping a look out for it! about 1.5miles from my house!
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Bad day Rob?
I thought the whole thing thoroughly tounge-in-cheek rather than "factual television", and Gaby easy on the eye. In light of your comments, I hope the programme makers weren't taking themselves too seriously.
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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So does this prove it once and for all then? - men are better drivers! What a load of nonsense.
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So does this prove it once and for all then? - men are better drivers! What a load of nonsense.
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Indeed, from what I saw it only proved one thing.
I only caught the last ten minutes or so and seeing the final result, men 42%, women 40% and all the cheering that the men had beaten the women. Well, I don't know whether the result was a percentage of passes in the studio audience or the number of questions they got right but either way it didn't seem a result of which to be particularly proud.
Less than half passed the required level or they averaged less than half the questions right, no wonder the standard of driving is what it is, more than half the people out there don't know the basic signs and rules.
I hope my guardian angel is on duty.......
Cockle
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