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Hi folks

Great to see all this interest in driving theory and enthusiasm for more training. Very worthwhile.

Mike - good luck in your forthcoming exams. When you finish all your studies - take a look see at graduate recruitment into the Force.

We need natural drivers and you come across as one!

(And we need them cos my mate Will on another thread is worried about my driving! )

34/35, very pleasing, just got q8 wrong (the reflective markers for LGVs and skips - I said LGVs and narrow bridges!). Passe my test in 1983, no theory element then bar the examiner-set HC questions at the end.

There are some real no-brainers in there, though. Perhaps there are real no-brainers taking the test!

Thanks! Hopefully off to Oxford in October, provided I get 3 'A's...



Hehe! It is kind of like that, but I suppose that when making the video they had to react to things 'late' in order to give the user who needed to click that extra bit of time they may take. I like the bit about the Gatso though, how ironic!



Hrmm, don't think it's really my cup of tea. I'm not exactly the forceful (excuse the pun!) type, and I'm quite diminutive in stature. I think I'd end up being intimidated by the people I was supposed to be catching..

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-mike[F]
Caught in the rush of the crowd, lost in a wall of sound..

Good luck - which college have you as 1st pref?

My offer is from Magdalen, and it's not really a preference - either I get in there, or I don't. As far as I know.

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-mike[F]
Caught in the rush of the crowd, lost in a wall of sound..

Hmmm, things have probably changed since my day - I applied to, and was accepted by, Queen's but others who did likewise but were not accepted materialised at other colleges - maybe these were undersubscribed. Then again, the entrance exam was very much in operation back then. Good luck anyway.

Well, I think it's probably the same... When I applied, if they'd wanted me but not had enough space at the college I could have been re-allocated to another.. However, my offer is now confirmed from Magdalen so I should end up going there rather than anywhere else.

..I think.

Edit: Oh, and I still had an entrance test (Two and a half hours to do five questions! - they were rather hard) to do, in addition to three interviews.

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-mike[F]
Caught in the rush of the crowd, lost in a wall of sound..

"The lad done well!"

Gather from the teacher in the family that they re-introduced the entrance exam because of the proliferation of good grades. It made it difficult to differentiate between the really intelligent and the fairly intelligent

She says the really outstanding candidates get firm offers and the rest go into the "pool" which is why they materialise at other colleges! (So she says (Deputy Head of large Comp) - but then I'm just a medico!)

She says Cambridge stepped up the interview process as well - and it includes lots of nasty tests to really establish intelligence, motivation and capability - so Oxford is probably the same. (Two youngsters in this huge family at Cambridge (In Gear's eldest - reading Law), one at Nottingham and one hoping to go to Bristol in the fall!)

Best of luck anyway Mike! Hear they have decent social life - but no golf! I turned Cambridge down! They said I could not have car down there for two years Just could not cope with that - and I enjoy golf anyway!

Yeah I'm slightly annoyed about the car thing (pretty sure I won't be allowed one in Oxford either). Although I shouldn't miss it during term time - pretty much everything is in walking distance, or a (frequent) bus ride away, but it'd be a pain having to go home by train. So I'm hoping I can befriend someone who lives relatively near, and then leave my car at their house during term time. We shall see...

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-mike[F]
Caught in the rush of the crowd, lost in a wall of sound..

It's not the dropping back I disagree with, it's the slowing down. that is a deliberate attempt to annoy the driver behind.

Perhaps the answer is just badly worded, unfortunately millions of new drivers will go out with those exact words in their head.

To me you can 'drop back' without really 'slowing down', obviously you will reduce your speed momentarily but then bring it back to what it was before. So overall you are not slowing down.

I helped someone who was taking the test shortly after it was introduced.

She could answer every answer in the book, never slipped up.

After a question to which the answer was "dipped headlights" she asked me "which ones are they, the ones at the back?".

Hi all,

Referring to car test two I don't agree with one of the answers to the question "when would you inflate your tyres above the normal pressure" the answer being "when driving fast for a long distance". I've never seen in any manual or heard anybody say "inflate you tyres when driving fast" pretty dangerous I would think as the tyres expand at speed and any excess pressure will lift the tyre "contact area" even more of the road leading to instability plus some of the questions are far too PC and should be this brainwashing should be kept away from what is an attempt at teaching basic road safety principles.

Andrew