Hazard Perception: Advice Please?

[t101]

Friday is going to be the third time I've taken my theory test this month! I have passed the test twice (car and bike) before with no problems (expired).

The exact same thing has happened the last two times I've taken it:

I've easily passed the questions - 47 & 48 points, and just failed the hazard perception - by 2 points each time.

I don't think I have a problem with actual hazard perception, I've been riding bikes for 4 years, and think I'm quite a careful rider, and the test seems fairly easy, I can spot the hazards a mile off. I feel like maybe I'm missing something? Is there some kind of technique or timing that I need to know about? Please advise!

Thanks!

[waffles]

You can press more than once for each hazard and click as soon as you see anything that could turn into a hazard. And have a practise first. Good luck!
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[N cee thirty]

you have to press it like right before the hazard gets you

its for retards who only realise at the last second whats happening,so people who are used to seeing it all unfold miss the points by clicking too early
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[Stowelly]

i noticed on the practise ones i was clicking far too early. see a guy coming down the slip road of a motorway, ok hazard, click..... after reviewing what i did on the practise ones you can see the window is a bit shit, so trick is to click a few times, as the hazard progresses

[ian789]

Just click when you see a car older than 10 years old and women drivers

[stinkwheel]

Something I was told by a driving examiner. Give three clicks per hazard.

1) Click when you first see the hazard.

2) Click when it's blatantly obvious it's a hazard.

3) Click a third time when the vehicle it's being filmed from starts to react.

If it doesn't progress from the first to the last, don't click again.
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[HopmanUK]

The hazard perception test is really made for people with little or no driving experience. I found I was noticing the hazard way before the window opened. The advice I was given when I asked about it was to click more than once as one of the above posters has said. Just dont go too mad on the clicking, too many clicks on a clip and you get 0 for it.

Most clips have 1 hazard that is marked, but a couple have 2. So even if you've found the hazard, keep looking.

[ian789]

When i did my bike one, i panicked a little because the camera car was going to crash so i clicked a few too many times to make him brake lmao! I scored 0 for that one

[t101]

thanks for the tips... i thought it might be clicking too early or not enough times or something but i wasnt sure if that was possible.... will look at it from a different point of view next time!

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Grab the practice DVD or borrow one. It's very helpful on the hazard perception.
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[N cee thirty]

get it off ebay, got mine for 99p
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[thx1138]

My wife is on L plates, she recently passed the hazard test, (failed the swerve test though). She bought an AA pass your motorycle theory test book and CD, so I had a go...


Apparently snow on a mini-roundabout isn't a hazard!

the whole thing was filmed from inside a car, and so the road positioning would be different, and when you corner there is no indication that you are cornering, the camera just points dead ahead, so you don't "look where you want to go, not where you are going"

I failed my practice, cos like on a hill leaving a posted 30 into a national I see a cyclist in the distance, that's a hazard, cos I'm going to nail 60 as soon as I pass that national sign, but I clicked too early

Going through town, in my mind I'm filtering naturally, and clicking hazards left and right, that doddery old guy with the shopping trolley up ahead just stepped in front of that parked bus, I bet he's going to step out - get over on the right damn you! RIGHT! RIGHT, on the white line! aagh I can't see. How is that mini-cab not a hazard? u-turn alert! etc

yeah, defo get some practice DVDs, and learn what it is they want of you to pass the test.

[t101]

just passed, 47 & 55. just clicked where i thought theyd want me too rather than possibly would actually be correct on the road. thanks for all the advice!

for anyone else reading this thread for advice... there are a few (free) interactive hazard perception clips around online if you google.