Continuing their 21st century approach to bringing the very best to the students who have enrolled with the national driving school Bill Plant, everyone can now benefit from the Hazard Perception Test available at the school’s website. The free Hazard Perception Test is easy to access and is already proving to be a tremendous help to those new drivers who will be soon taking their two part driving test.

The clips are shown on video and you will see a situation when driving that will involve other road users, all of this is shown from the driver’s viewpoint.  During the video a number of clips show a hazard, or in some cases a situation will develop which will cause the driver to change and you will need to identify these as well as the hazards. There are 14 video clips each of which is around one minute long allowing the new driver to practice and to understand potential hazards which will be encountered on the road and also in the theory part of the driving test.

One section of the driving test which comes under the theory section is the hazard perception test. We have the means at our disposal to allow you to view a model and to continue to practice, to help you on the road to successfully passing all parts of your driving test. When you enrol with us for your driving lessons, we will give you the necessary information for you to access our online theory programme and from there, it id plain sailing as the saying goes.

The hazard perception part is delivered on a computer and you respond by clicking a button on the mouse. You will be presented with a series of 14 video clips which feature every day road scenes, in each clip there will be at least one developing hazard, but one of the clips will feature two developing hazards. During the real test you will need to respond to the developing hazard if you want to achieve a high score, the maximum being five. Unlike our mock test when you sit the real one you will not be able to review your answers to the hazard perception test; as on the road, you will only have one chance to respond to the developing hazard. Practice makes perfect.

The Hazard Perception Test is also known as the “awareness” test and is made up of video clips to test your knowledge of driving hazards. The video clips shown (14 in total) are all about one minute long.

The Videos shown will obviously contain a driving hazard that you will have to identify, in 13 of the clips there will be 1 hazard to identify and in one of the clips 2 hazards to identify, unfortunately they won’t give you any hints as to which is the clip containing 2 hazards.

Driver changes speed, direction or stops

In the video clips you will see hazards that will cause the driver to change speed, direction or even stop. To identify the hazards you will select the correct hazard by clicking either the left or right mouse button. Time is an issue here too as the quicker you identify the hazard the more points you will score. The points system operates on a scale of 5 to 0.

Oh if you were thinking of being clever and working round the hazard perception videos by clicking as many times as you could as the video plays the system will pick this up and you will ultimately score o. There may be other hazards on the video that you can see and click on but you will not loose points for clicking on them. Potential driving hazards won’t gain you points but also won’t loose you any either.

Remember you are looking for hazards that will cause the driver to change speed, change direction or stop. This is the driving hazard you must identify to score points.

Passing the Hazard Perception Test

In order to pass the test you must score at least 44 points out of possibly 75.

Driving Theory Test

The hazard perception test is the second part of the driving theory test. It comes after the you finish the actual theory test and there is a break allowed of 3 minutes in between, a tutorial will be played as to how the hazard perception test works and after that has been shown the test will begin.