{"id":21374,"date":"2017-07-01T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21374"},"modified":"2017-07-01T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T10:36:47","slug":"show-me-tell-me-questions-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21374","title":{"rendered":"Show Me, Tell Me Questions – December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DrivingIn April, I reported that the driving test will change from 4 December 2017<\/a>. I won\u2019t go into the details again \u2013 you can read them in the earlier article \u2013 but DVSA has published the amended Show Me, Tell Me (SMTM) questions<\/a> on the GOV.UK website that it plans to use from December (the questions which are currently in use are available here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The only real difference to the SMTM questions is that, from December, some of them will be asked while the candidate is driving.<\/p>\n

As an aside, I had someone on test recently, and the examiner asked him to show how he would clean the windscreen if it was dirty. My pupil duly operated the front washers, at which point the examiner added: \u201chow about the back one?\u201d Sneaky! He demonstrated it, but that\u2019s one of the new questions.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I have some misgivings about asking questions on the move, since they will require additional multitasking by the candidate. I\u2019ve got more than a couple who have a job monotasking as it is. I think I mentioned this a while back, but one of my current lot has a ball stud in her upper lip, which she is wont to fiddle with while she\u2019s driving (well, she doesn\u2019t anymore, as a result of the story I\u2019m about to relate). On one particular lesson, we were turning right at a mini-roundabout. Given that roundabouts are her main nemesis, and that she had applied almost full lock to turn right in this instance, you would think that, when the ball fell off her stud at the precise moment she needed to steer back into the target road, she would prioritise her steering and not, for example, a headlong dive into the foot well to try and catch the ball. I expected the first option. She chose the second. I think I screamed.<\/p>\n

The one particular question that seems to be winding up a lot of instructors out there is the one about testing the horn. The current question, asked at the start of the test whilst stationary, is:<\/p>\n

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Show me how you would check that the horn is working<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From December, it will be asked on the move, and will take the form:<\/p>\n

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When it\u2019s safe to do so, can you show me how you\u2019d operate the horn?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is getting a lot of ADIs into a tizzy, because they don\u2019t understand the Highway Code or associated rules properly.<\/p>\n

The Highway Code says:<\/p>\n

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Rule 112<\/strong><\/p>\n

The horn.<\/strong> Use only while your vehicle is moving and you need to warn other road users of your presence. Never sound your horn aggressively. You MUST NOT<\/strong> use your horn<\/p>\n