Why do i keep failing my hazard perception test?
Sorry, but Sarky is right. As an experienced driver I know there are children alive today because of my ability to preempt their actions. Those children would be dead today if I’d encountered them as a newly qualified driver in a 1980’s hatchback! I took my test in the very first year of the Theory Test, when it was a damn sight harder, and passed that with flying colours. I didn’t have to do the Hazard Test though, although I passed it easily years later! Experience teaches you where the hazards are, I’m guessing that you’re taking this test without much driving experience? Get out on the road, under instruction from the most pedantic person you know, and gain the experience – you’ll fly through the Hazard test!
Too much clicking will lead to your observation of a hazard not being registered. You probably are spotting the hazards but are doing multiple clicks, and the computer says no and you fail. As soon as you see a hazard which could be a pedestrian or a car waiting to turn at a junction ( not really a hazard i know but they do count on the hazard test) then its one click only, wait until the next hazard then one click. Controlled clicking mate is what its all about. If you spot two hazards close together then just space your clicks so it doest look like your trying to send Morse code, that’s what gets you a fail.
