As some of you may know as of yesterday the Car theory test has been slightly altered, apparently so people will need a bit more in depth knowledge and more rounded knowledge or something (basically harder). To do this they decided to stick a "case study" in, without really giving any information on it at all.
I did the test yesterday and all I can say is it's pointless. Far from making it harder at best it is the same, and at worse easier...
Essentially it consisted of a case study on which the last 5 questions would be based on, I was a little worried before I got to it as I had no knowledge as to what it would be like and assumed it would be some long winded story about everything going wrong, followed by a load of difficult/convoluted answers.
Instead it consisted of a couple of paragraphs, in my case of "you" going to see a friend at his house, planning the route and going in the quiet part of the day so as less traffic, location being changed to the town centre, then going through an industrial area in the wet through various traffic claming measures... I was furiously memorising this for a couple of minutes then pressed the next button... Case study was still there and the question "what sign indicates you have the right of way", straight out of the test book, followed by 4 other questions, a couple only barely connected to the case study itself...
Utterly pointless IMO, I just ignored the case study as there was no need for it. I'm probably missing the point, however it just seems a very poorly though out way of doing it.
Reason for posting this "info", dunno really, maybe it'll reassure people going in to do their tests soon as they won't know much about the new case study and also to see what others think about it, and the theory test in general.
I did the test yesterday and all I can say is it's pointless. Far from making it harder at best it is the same, and at worse easier...
Essentially it consisted of a case study on which the last 5 questions would be based on, I was a little worried before I got to it as I had no knowledge as to what it would be like and assumed it would be some long winded story about everything going wrong, followed by a load of difficult/convoluted answers.
Instead it consisted of a couple of paragraphs, in my case of "you" going to see a friend at his house, planning the route and going in the quiet part of the day so as less traffic, location being changed to the town centre, then going through an industrial area in the wet through various traffic claming measures... I was furiously memorising this for a couple of minutes then pressed the next button... Case study was still there and the question "what sign indicates you have the right of way", straight out of the test book, followed by 4 other questions, a couple only barely connected to the case study itself...
Utterly pointless IMO, I just ignored the case study as there was no need for it. I'm probably missing the point, however it just seems a very poorly though out way of doing it.
Reason for posting this "info", dunno really, maybe it'll reassure people going in to do their tests soon as they won't know much about the new case study and also to see what others think about it, and the theory test in general.
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