Practical Deck 1

Question 1

How do you do a start manoeuvre?

Answer 1

1. Break
2. Put gear in Drive
3. Push down handbreak
4. Check blind spots and mirrors
5. Signal
6. When clear, apply gas while steering off side of kerb and checking right blind spot
7. Cancel Indication

Question 2

How do you reverse park into a parking bay?

Answer 2

1. Pick your bay
   (See Fig.3)
2. From the direction that your car is facing, from the right white line of the bay, count 3 more white lines.
3. Position your reference point (See Fig.9) with that 3rd white line.
4. Hold break and pull control stick to ‘R’
5. Lock wheel to the side of the bay where you want to park
6. Look at blind spots and mirrors
7. Slowly break at a continuously slow pace while keeping on looking around until on the left mirror, you see that the white line of the bay runs parallel to your door handles.
8. Straighten the wheel so you start to break in a straight line.
9. Keep reversing until on the right side window, you see the right line of the bay coming in line with your point of reference (see Fig.4)
10. Once you get out of the car you should see the car is on the inside of the white line.

Question 3

How can I know that I am not driving too close to the central reservation of the roundabout when I am driving in the inner lane?

Answer 3

on the right window, I should be able to see the bottom of the curb of the central reservation meeting the road

Question 4

What does the term ‘lock’ mean in terms of steering?

Answer 4

Turn the wheel all the way round to the point where it no longer allows you to turn anymore. This should be 1 whole turn and a half.

Question 5

What are the letters on the control stick and what do they mean?

Answer 5

P - Parking
R - Reverse
N - Neutral
D - Drive

Question 6

How do you do a pulling up on the left manoeuvre?

Answer 6

1. Check centre and left mirrors
2. Indicate left
3. Make sure the space is appropriate for parking
4. Steer close to the kerb so that it is in line with your reference point (See Fig. 31). To also help, check left mirror to see how parallel and close you are to the kerb.
5. Gently brake
6. Cancel indication
7. Feet sill on brake, put gear in Park and pull up handbreak

Question 7

What are the indications of a road nearby?

Answer 7

. Arrow signs on the road
. Road signs
. Road Name signs
. Houses that are split apart
. Yellow road lines curving into a side road

Question 8

How to stop at a T junction?

Answer 8

1. 6 cars away from the giveaway lines
2. check mirrors
3. Indicate
4. slowly brake by a mm
5. stop when the give way line is under your right mirror

Question 9

Picture the giveway lines in your head

Answer 9

(See Fig.6)

Question 10

How to Parallel Park?

Answer 10

1. Stop 1 metre away next to the car that you are going to park behind
2. While checking blind spots and mirrors, slowly reverse until the headlights/rearlights of the car aligns with the centre of your left side window then stop.
3. While checking blind spots and mirrors, before reversing, do 1 full turn left on the steering wheel, slowly reverse until on your left/little left mirror, you see the corner of the back of your car meeting the curb and all of the road that you see is in the shape of a triangle.
4. While checking blind spots and mirrors, before reversing, lock the wheel to the right, slowly reverse until on the little left side mirror, you see that the car is parallel with the curb then stop.
5. While checking blind spots and mirrors, before reversing, do 1 full turn left on the steering wheel, slowly reverse 2 car lengths.

note when you are not being tested: You reverse your car until you are in the middle of the back and front car. Ideally you want to see the bottom of the front car’s wheel touching the road but under some parking situations that wont be possible.

In short:
. ×1 Left
. Lock Right
. ×1 Left

Question 11

When I am asked to park somewhere safe, should I park on a raised or dropped kerb?

Answer 11

Raised Kerb

Question 12

Picture a raised Kerb

Answer 12

(See Fig.7)

Question 13

Picture a dropped Kerb

Answer 13

(See Fig.8)

Question 14

If I am parked in front of a car and I cannot see the bottom of the car wheels touching the road, how do I turn my steering wheel to safely move out?

Answer 14

Before moving, I lock my wheel to the right.

Question 15

How do you forward park into a parking bay?

Answer 15

1. First align the right line of the parking bay you want to park in with the centre of your window when you lean slightly forward.
2. Lock your wheel to the side that the parking bay is in
3. Slowly go forward and on the little left mirror, you should see the white line intersecting with your door handle which indicates you should fit in the bay. keep going until on the little left and little right mirrors, you should see the white lines on both sides are becoming parallel with your door handles.
4. Straighten up your wheel and go forward until the horizontal white line is under your right mirror. Then stop.

Question 16

Picture a box junction

Answer 16

(See Fig.11)

Question 17

Can your car stay in a box junction under any circumstances?

Answer 17

Most of the time, No. I have to make sure there is space for me to stop beyond the box junction. So if the car beyond me is in traffic and is just in front of the box junction, I cannot go ahead until the traffic moves so that there is space as otherwise I will be stuck inside the box junction. Waiting is only allowed for when you wish to turn right but are prevented from doing so by oncoming traffic (See Fig. 15)

Question 18

When turning into a side road on your left, what should you do?

Answer 18

1. Off the gas and slow down but not too much or abruptly
2. Check, middle and left mirror
3. Indicate left
4. wait until the curve of the kerb is no longer in view of the main window then turn your wheel by half.
5. straighten up wheel and turn indicator off

Question 19

Picture the cars instrument-panel

Answer 19

(See Fig.1)

Question 20

Picture a puffin crossing

Answer 20

(See Fig.12)

Question 21

Picture where the anti-lock brakes (ABS) warning light would be

Answer 21

(See Fig.13) on the Instrument panel

Question 22

When approaching an unmarked crossroads, who has right of way?

Answer 22

No one. It’s whoever is nearest to the crossroads or if two or more come to the crossroads at once, you must read the car and drivers body language to determine who goes first.

Question 23

Picture a crawler lane

Answer 23

(See Fig.14)

Question 24

What are the 4 possible manoeuvres?

Answer 24

1. Forward park into a bay
2. Reverse park into a bay
3. Parallel park
4. pull up on the right

Question 25

How do you do a pulling up on the right manoeuvre?

Answer 25

1. Find a suitable location to pull up
2. Check centre, right mirror and right blind spot
3. Signal Right
4. Position your vehicle to the right-hand side of your lane, as if you were making a right turn at a junction.
5. Pull up on the right and make your car parallel so that the edge of the kerb intersects with the part of the car shown in Fig.17
6. Check mirrors and blind spots anti-clockwise
7. Reverse parallel to the kerb by 2 car lengths
8. Do the move off manoeuvre but check the mirrors and blind spots anti-clockwise
9. When you move off, do so swiftly (but obviously not too crazy) until you get to the left lane.

Question 26

what does MSM stand for?

Answer 26

M - Mirrors
S - Signal
M - Manoeuvre

Question 27

If you wanted to make a right turn at a junction, should your car be positioned on the left, centre or right side of your lane?

Answer 27

Right Side