Hazard perception test - over sensitive & no mouse pointer on screen

book12

Done my theory test today. I passed the multiple choice part, but fail the hazard perception.

I failed the hazard perception, due to scoring 0 on four clips. I didn't 'over click' frequently. Also, there was no mouse pointer on the screen. The practice CD has a mouse pointer where you can move the pointer to the hazard to click.

I was wondering if the test is over sensitive when clicking.

littlerat

You don't need to point to the hazard on the practise CD, it doesn't change anything.

The advice is usually to click when you see any potential hazards, click again if they start to develop, and click again when it's become a hazard.

Say (example off the top of my head) a kid on a bicycle on the pavement - he could ride into the road so click, if he looks to be moving out into the road click, if he's in the road in front of you click.

Try try try again though, seems a lot of people fail on HP 1st time.

book12

littlerat wrote: »

You don't need to point to the hazard on the practise CD, it doesn't change anything.

Ok. I didn't know that.

When the clip starts on the CD, the mouse cusor is still there, so I thought it would be like that on the real test.

The advice is usually to click when you see any potential hazards, click again if they start to develop, and click again when it's become a hazard.

I did do that today.

Try try try again though, seems a lot of people fail on HP 1st time.

I'm going to book it again for next week.

rev_henry

You don't click on the hazard, just click when you see any hazard developing. The anti cheating mechanism isn't just for clicking too much, it will detect 'rhythmic clicking' as well and disqualify you for it. Just do a few more on your computer to get used to it and you'll be fine. It does sometimes seem to make weird decisions about when you should and shouldn't click, but it doesn't really matter as you don't need anything like full marks to pass.

Blackpool_Saver

Tht's bad it should be the same, no wonder people fail.
I bet you pass now you have full possession of the facts.

SailorSam

I'm glad i past my test years ago.

Rolandtheroadie

When you start it on your home computer, move the arrow to one of the corners so it isnt in your line of vision.

Rolandtheroadie

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Tht's bad it should be the same, no wonder people fail.
I bet you pass now you have full possession of the facts.

It IS the same. It's YOUR mouse pointer thats on the screen on your home computer.

sebdangerfield

The driving school at my old nick were used as guinea pigs for tests before the hazard perception test came in. We all took it in turns to do the test and then afterwards we were shown how the program marked our scores.

Basically, there's a continuum of time during which you must click to register the hazard, then another to say the hazard has developed and so on. If you click too soon or too late it's a fail. The only problem is, a good standard of driver will see a hazard much much quicker than that is to be expected of a new driver and therfore click early. Of the team who took the test, over half failed! When we saw the actual 'time line' at the end of the test all the ones who failed clicked just fractions of a second before the computer said there was a hazard. The developers said there was little they could do as the times were rigidly set so as not to allow cheating by clicking at regular intervals and as a result get a pass on average.

About 6 months after doing this I took my A1 Motorcycle test and needed to do the hazard perception as I'd not done it on my previous DSA car test. I bought a training CD and kept clicking to early. I just had to learn to click when the computer says I should and passed but I'm fairly sure if I'd clicked when I thought there was a hazard I'd have failed.

After all, If you hear a grade 1 or 2 Police driver doing a commentary on a drive practically everythings a hazard or a potential hazard.

vyseyboy

Failed it first time for the same reason as previous poster, clicking too early.

It's just another hoop to jump through, unfortunately, and probably ups the fail rate nicely. Advice to the OP would be what littlerat said: click when any potential hazard appears or further develops, don't be hesitant, more is better than less.

Wig

scotsman4th wrote: »

It IS the same. It's YOUR mouse pointer thats on the screen on your home computer.

Ok, but surely there should be an onscreen warning that the real test has no mouse pointer, and you should (on your computer) move the mouse to the corner of the screen and ignore it, to get you ready for the test.