FAO Dashik or other ADI - observation tips please.

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Right, i've now failed two tests on silly observation "errors".

Yesterday i was done on my parralell park. If I had been the examiner looking to fail, i would have failed myself on car control becasue i set slightly too much gas and went back too quickly (w e were on a hill reversing up it). This meant i made my front offside check late, probably by about a second. I recieved a minor for the car control and serious for the "missing" observation. I did say i wasn't happy with the way i did it, but didn't ask if i could repeat the manoevre becasue i thought i'd salvaged it pretty well. Usually these things don't improve when they get off to a bad start!

Obviously i'm extemely disappointed, especially since i only got 5 other minors over the whole test. I (inadvertantly) obstructed a crossing, missed a mirror, must have missed a blindspot check on a pullaway and didn't react like a ninja on the emergancy stop.

I also got a minor on observation on my left hand reverse, but he said i made up for it later on in the manoevre.

So what i'm after is exactly when do they expect you to make these checks? Would it be a good idea to stop the car to make them? If you're not looking where you're going it's so easy to go off track and often not easy to get back on it!

I will ask my instructor too when i next see him, but obviously differant people have differant interpretations of requitrements and a second opinion would be helpful.

Thanks :)
 
Possibly, i don't ever remember reversing uphill before so that won't have helped. In my car i'd have been OK as it's a diesel and i could have done ot on clutch only.
 

Thanks Dashik, i'll stop the car next time :)

Incidentally i took this test at a differant centre where i don't know the roads at all and i actually think it helped. My instructor showed me the more difficult junctions in the lesson before the test (The hardest one is actually getting out of the centre!) but because i didn't know the roads i had to be more observant of signage and becasue i didn't know the junctions i didn't approach them too fast for the examiner (I had a couple of minors for this in my other tests).
 
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