Institute of Advanced Motorists
Skipton and Craven Group
Institute of Advanced Motorists
Skipton and Craven Group
Any motorist of reasonable experience and skill should be able to pass the Advanced Driving Test.
You will be directed in your own car around a test route of about 35-40 miles which will incorporate road conditions of all kinds, including congested urban areas, main roads, motorways where possible, narrow country lanes and residential streets. Your examiner will be a serving or retired police driver who hold Advance Police Certificates and the test will last for 90 minutes.
On the contrary, the examiners hope you will handle your car in the steady workmanlike way in which you should drive day by day. They like to see you make progress consistent with safety, and drive as to the conditions at the time. They want to see candidates observe all speed limits and drive with due regard and courtesy to other road users.
You will be asked to reverse around a corner, to perform parallel parking, turn the vehicle round using forward and reverse gears (3 point turn)
The examiner will ask you on a number of occasions what the last road sign was. This is a spot check on your powers of observation.
There are no trick questions, no attempts to catch you out, and you are not even required to give a running commentary at any time (although you are free to do so if you wish to make extra clear you ability to "read the road").
Naturally, you are unlikely to pass if you fail to obey the "Rule of the Road" - and you will need to be familiar with the Highway Code.
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The Skipton and Craven Advanced Motorists Group is affiliated to the Institutute of Advanced Motorists. Group number 4136 UK Reg. charity number 1072252