The LDC Theory Test Highway Code Workbook
Revised for 2006. The most imaginative official theory test book ever produced. Combines the official questions with detailed advice, help and extra theory (not in the Highway Code) to help you pass the theory and hazard perception test with ease.
The ultimate learning tool. The only book to present the official UK theory test questions in such a way that you can easily learn the Highway Code as you prepare for the UK theory test for car drivers. ISBN 0952903598.
This book will also help you to pass the hazard perception part of the theory test by ensuring you understand what is meant by the term “developing hazard”, how the scoring mechanism works and how to go about developing this most important skill. Normally to get this level of information you would need to buy two books or more.
The price of the workbook is £6.99 (£7.99 including postage and packing). You can also buy the workbook and the Highway Code together for £9.49 (£10.99 including postage and packing). To purchase either the workbook or the workbook with the Highway Code please contact us on freephone number 0800 400 777 or send a letter together with a cheque (made payable to “Learner Driving Centres”) or postal order to Material Sales, Learner Driving Centres, Station House, Station Lane, Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF8 1RB.
Alternatively, you can buy either the workbook or the workbook with the Highway Code online, over a secure connection, by clicking on the appropriate PayPal button below. Goods purchased online will be despatched by first class post. Allow up to two working days for delivery.
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How the book helps you to pass the theory test multiple choice question test.
- All the official UK theory test multiple choice questions and answers for car drivers. Valid for tests after September 2006 plus the new questions that can appear in the test after September 2007.
- The questions have been restructured and grouped into 12 quizzes to provide a properly structured learning programme, to help you pass the test with ease while ensuring you learn the Highway Code - essential for a lifetime of safe driving.
- Includes supplementary notes to cover the theory not in the Highway Code necessary to answer all the official UK theory test questions for car drivers.
- Explains everything you need to know about how the test works and what to do to pass.
How the book helps you to pass the theory test hazard perception video test.
- Explains what a developing hazard is and how the scoring mechanism works with illustrated examples.
- Explains how to develop this most important skill using a lesson brief from the highly acclaimed Learner Driving tuition system.
- Shows a picture of each of the five scoring phases of each of the DSA’s official video practice clips designed to show you what to expect on the hazard perception part of the theory test.
We have provided an extract of some of the earlier pages of the book below to give you a taste of its contents:
About this book (pages 5 and 6)
Introduction
This book covers all the information you need to know to book, take and pass the UK theory test for car drivers first time.
Multiple choice
This is the only book where the official UK theory test questions have been restructured to enable you to easily learn the Highway Code as you prepare for the UK theory test. This will not only help you to learn the Highway Code (essential for a lifetime of safe driving) it will also help you to better remember the correct answers to the theory test questions. This is because most people find it easier to remember things they understand or have studied rather than things they have just tried to memorise.
Most of the other books containing the official questions present the questions in the same order as they were provided by the Driving Standards Agency (i.e. in 14 standard question categories). Unfortunately, presenting the questions in this order does not allow you to easily prepare for the theory test using existing books, such as the Highway Code, that contain the theory you need to learn to pass this test and become a safe driver. Consequently, with other books, the reader has to primarily rely upon the use of rote learning (i.e. memorising answers to questions without any form of structured pre-study). This approach is not only tedious it is also very ineffective.
Following a properly structured learning programme, as provided in this book, will enable the learning process to be far more productive and rewarding. With this book you could choose to read a section or two of the Highway Code while travelling to college or work and then undertake the quiz that relates to that study when you get home at night. If you have the CD-rom version of this product (entitled “The LDC Theory Test CD-rom”) you could choose to use a computerised quiz, just like the real test, to check what you have learnt that day. By structuring the quizzes to match the study material (i.e. the Highway Code) you can learn the theory in small manageable chunks. The alternative, using other books, is to read the whole of the Highway Code and then answer all 893 questions in one big indigestible gulp.
Hazard perception
When the hazard perception test was first introduced into the theory test, in November 2002, the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) allowed professional driving instructors the opportunity to sit this particular test so that they could become familiar with it.
To our surprise on some hazard video clips driving instructors were actually scoring zero out of a possible 5 marks. This was not because the driving instructors were poor at seeing potential hazards, indeed it was just the opposite. On these occasions the driving instructors were clicking the mouse button (this is how you inform the computer that you have seen a hazard) too early, before the potential hazard had become what the DSA term a “developing hazard”. Therefore to ensure you get a maximum score on the hazard perception test it helps to fully understand the DSA term “developing hazard” as opposed to “potential hazard” more commonly used by professional driving instructors.
It is also important to understand how the scoring mechanism works. This is why we cover these aspects of the hazard perception test in some detail as part of this book.
Finally, to aid the development of your hazard perception skills we have also included a lesson brief from the highly acclaimed Learner Driving tuition system. This explains what you need to know to start the development of this most important skill.
How to use this book
Once you have read the early sections of this book about the multiple choice test it is time to undertake the 12 quizzes that form the Highway Code quiz programme. However, before you undertake any quiz in this programme you will need to read the appropriate section or sections of the Highway Code as stated at the start of each quiz. Consequently, you will need to buy a copy of the Highway Code or visit www.learnerdriving.com to view an online copy of this publication. Unfortunately not all the theory necessary to pass this test can be found in the Highway Code. Consequently, we have included a set of supplementary notes for you to read before you embark upon quiz 12. Quiz 12 contains all the official questions not answered by the Highway Code.
To answer any quiz simply take a piece of paper and write down which of the answers to each question you think are correct. If you are unsure of any answer place an asterisk or question mark next to that answer for later review. You can then check your answers by referring to the quiz answers section of this book. Revise the appropriate Highway Code rule, sign, annex or supplementary note of those questions incorrectly answered or that you were unsure about as denoted by the asterisk or question mark. Make a list of the question numbers and then use this list to revise the questions and correct answers just prior to the test. If you have difficulty remembering the answers to any particular question write out the question and correct answer or answers in full. The physical task of doing this will help you to memorise the correct answers to these final questions.
In regards to using this book to help you pass the hazard perception test make sure you study the appropriate sections carefully. This will give you a sound understanding of exactly how the test works, what to expect and what you need to know to start to develop this most important skill.
The only way to become proficient at identifying and dealing with hazards is to take practical lessons from a professional driving instructor. If you want to experience actual test conditions you can purchase the CD-rom version of this product entitled “The LDC Theory Test CD-rom” by ringing 01977 691810. However, you will need access to a suitably specified PC for at least a couple of hours to complete this task. See advert opposite Contents page for more details.
Contents (page 3)
About this book
Arranging the theory test:
Applying for you proisional driving licence
How to arrange the theory test for your 17th birthday
Booking the test
Cancelling the test
Arranging a re-test
Other languages supported
Reading difficulties
Hearing difficulties
Foreign licence holders
At the test centre
The result
About the multiple choice test
About the hazard perception test
Hazard perception and defensive driving lesson breif
Official hazard perception practice clips 1-8
Highway Code supplementary notes
The Highway Code quiz programme:
- Rules for motorcyclists and drivers
- General rules part 1 (rules 85-105)
- General rules part 2 (rules 106-134)
- Using the road
- Road users requiring extra care
- Driving in adverse weather conditions and parking
- Motorways
- Breakdowns, accidents, road works, railway level crossings and tramways
- Signals and traffic signs part 1
- Traffic signs part 2 and road/vehicle markings
- Annexes
- Supplementary notes
Quiz answers
Cross reference to DSA data bank
DSA Theory Test Centre