SPSV test

mark2000ie · 28-07-2009 12:42pm

geraid wrote: »

hi i'm doing the spsv test tomorrow and i've only started revising the manual and dvd tonight am i on a hiding to nothing i'm presuming its not too easy if the pass rate is 1 per 100 tests does anyone have any tips at this late stage

What area are you doing it for?

Howyadoing · 29-07-2009 11:40am

irisheyes12 wrote: »

due to sit my 2nd exam thursday but am a bit worried as pass rate only 1 in 100 anybody bother complaining to the regulator dont know how people are getting past it living in dublin all my life and studied hard for first test 95% first part but only 66% 2nd thought done much better no way of checking your answers not very transperent????????????????????:mad::mad::mad:

i have just found out that the regulator is coverd under the freedom of information act, and have sent them a couple of emails about getting the full breakdown of test results including all questions and awnsers right and wrong ones. i have had no reply as of yet but would encouarge all others to make contact with them about this point and it might get a response out of them. please let me know if anyone gets any joy on this.:rolleyes:

Ham'nd'egger · 29-07-2009 12:09pm

Howyadoing wrote: »

i have just found out that the regulator is coverd under the freedom of information act, and have sent them a couple of emails about getting the full breakdown of test results including all questions and awnsers right and wrong ones. i have had no reply as of yet but would encouarge all others to make contact with them about this point and it might get a response out of them. please let me know if anyone gets any joy on this.:rolleyes:

As the tests are farmed out, the private company won't be covered by FOI though they would be covered under Data Protection Laws. They will doubtless hide behind "Commercial Sensitivity" as a reason not to divulge info made available to bidders for the testing operations but a visit to the Ombudsman would sort that out easy enough

mark2000ie · 29-07-2009 2:37pm

Howyadoing wrote: »

i have just found out that the regulator is coverd under the freedom of information act, and have sent them a couple of emails about getting the full breakdown of test results including all questions and awnsers right and wrong ones. i have had no reply as of yet but would encouarge all others to make contact with them about this point and it might get a response out of them. please let me know if anyone gets any joy on this.:rolleyes:

Whats bugging me is these extra 4 questions that are not taking into consideration for the markings but we never find out what four they were !! Needs to be more transparent!

Geraid, How did you get on yesterday?

David John Drum · 30-07-2009 10:51pm

HAS ANYONE PASSED THE AREA KNOWLEDGE TEST ?

David John Drum · 02-08-2009 11:19am

I do not see any answer, am I to assume that no one has passed it or even knows of anyone who has passed it ? New question; who has failed it ? Lets get some figures .

smithy1981 · 02-08-2009 1:39pm

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Failed

robbie111 · 02-08-2009 9:26pm

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Failed

Howyadoing · 02-08-2009 10:06pm

<....................failed x3:mad:

goodimpra · 03-08-2009 12:24pm

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failed once so far

c14 · 03-08-2009 6:28pm

As a taxi driver for 11 years im delighted so many are having trouble passing the test.:)

David John Drum · 03-08-2009 7:27pm

Tell me ,do you work through an office ? To all of you working through offices, will the office still be open after 1 Dec.? I spoke to an office in Limerick and they have had 2 staff fail the exam. In addition I just counted back through this thread and count 8 people failing ( some more than once ). I have not seen one passing.The full exam has to be passed to obtain a Dispatch Operators Licence to keep the office open after 1 Dec. Before you get too cocky remember, if offices close it will throw a lot of cars onto the streets operating as owner drivers. A good few hackneys will go taxi.You think there are not enough rank spaces now, wait until December then you will see competition. There will be no co-ordination with shifts, drivers will be cherrypicking their hours to scratch a living.
For the record, current drivers are ok.regarding the Skills Dev.test. To renew their licence after 2012 they will have to take the first part of the exam only ( which we all seem to have passed ). But it is anticipated some time afterwards they will have to take the 2nd. part ( area knowledge ).

:eek:

c14 · 03-08-2009 9:47pm

A staff member in our office passed first time no problem.:pac::pac::pac:

mark2000ie · 03-08-2009 9:49pm

goodimpra wrote: »

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failed once so far

Did you do it for Dublin area goodimpra?

c14 · 03-08-2009 9:58pm

No Meath

goodimpra · 03-08-2009 10:17pm

mark2000ie wrote: »

Did you do it for Dublin area goodimpra?

Yes , i did.

David John Drum · 04-08-2009 8:36am

c14 wrote: »

A staff member in our office passed first time no problem.:pac::pac::pac:

Congratulations C.14, your dispatch operator is the exception rather than the rule. Should be in a very good situation at the next round of pay-talks.I still stand by my predictions ,but we will have to wait until xmas for the result. Here is another one, if An Bord Snip has its way and the rural transport scheme is knocked on the head and combined with the fact that the authorities prefer to chase the easy mark when it comes to enforcement (that is they will chase the man making some effort to be legal for minor infringements and not the pirates who are 100% illegal who appear to operate with impunity) , combined with the economic clime there will be an increase in the number of pirates on the road.People will use them, they think they are cheaper and it fulfills the need to be a rebel. As we all know, there is nothing so dear as that which comes so cheap.I think I have said enough and will end my contributions on the subject, hope I have given you food for thought, the number of hits shows that an interest has been created, look forward to xmas.

nedthered · 04-08-2009 8:51am

What a scam, I did the test three times already and past the first part every time. The second part on local knowledge is set-up wrong. Talking to some local cabbies about it and the general view seems to be that it’s set up to keep a particular section of the new arrivals to this country out of the business.

Canarygold · 09-08-2009 12:38pm

Doing the test to-morrow dublin area, anyone anymore tips, cheers

Howyadoing · 10-08-2009 4:18pm

Howyadoing wrote: »

<....................failed x3:mad:

Pass

:):):)

mark2000ie · 10-08-2009 5:04pm

Howyadoing wrote: »

Pass :):):)

Congrats well done, about time. Will you pm me what u got.

blahblah06 · 10-08-2009 6:22pm

well done howya be sure to let us know how u feel about the taxi industry when u get out there to show were not all talking ****

mark2000ie · 10-08-2009 6:33pm

blahblah06 wrote: »

well done howya be sure to let us know how u feel about the taxi industry when u get out there to show were not all talking ****

Maybe there wont be as many people in the industry if the regulator ever makes it compulsory for all drivers to pass the new knowledge test that Howya has just passed. Plus with the new identification system you wont have people doing it for other people as so many have done in the old test.

nedthered · 10-08-2009 6:53pm

well done

Canarygold · 10-08-2009 7:40pm

done the test today, failed. just went through the questions and can only find 4 wrong, something going on or what. not cribbing but with everyone saying they are failing it makes you wonder. By the way, well done HOWAYA.

Canarygold · 10-08-2009 7:42pm

by the way where is dunsink observatory, maps say castleknock so mayby i got 5 wrong

mark2000ie · 10-08-2009 8:15pm

Canarygold wrote: »

by the way where is dunsink observatory, maps say castleknock so mayby i got 5 wrong

Yep it is Castleknock

Taxipete29 · 10-08-2009 9:18pm

mark2000ie wrote: »

Yep it is Castleknock

While I know this is technically correct, I would never describe it as being in Castleknock.

Howyadoing · 10-08-2009 10:34pm

info91, also passed today.
well done.;);)

mark2000ie · 10-08-2009 10:46pm

well done info91, hopefully I will join you both on 19th Aug

mark2000ie · 10-08-2009 11:07pm

Taxipete29 wrote: »

While I know this is technically correct, I would never describe it as being in Castleknock.

Where would you describe it as being?

goodimpra · 10-08-2009 11:16pm

Howyadoing wrote: »

Pass :):):)

good man

goodimpra · 10-08-2009 11:27pm

Dunsink Lane,
Castleknock,
Dublin 15,
Ireland. that's the address. but to be honest so far i thought it belongs to finglas area

mark2000ie · 10-08-2009 11:29pm

goodimpra wrote: »

good man

When are you doing it goodimpra?

goodimpra · 11-08-2009 12:15am

now i think about my holidays, but when i come back i will sit it again. it will be in the middle of September i believe. i haven't checked yet free days on prometric site.

Taxipete29 · 11-08-2009 5:03pm

mark2000ie wrote: »

Where would you describe it as being?

I would probably of classed it as Finglas.

Volvoboy · 11-08-2009 7:48pm

Taxipete29 wrote: »

I would probably of classed it as Finglas.

As would i.

Howyadoing · 12-08-2009 2:31pm

Thanks lads,

is there any taxi drivers out there that would
give me some proper advice on taxi driving.
I would like to know what u think about renting
a full taxi or spending 10 or 12 grand on a second
hand car and plate. I have been out of work for about
4 months now getting nothing of social and down to bones
of my savings. I would have to borrow about €10000
to buy something and don't fancy getting any more loans
as i have one at the minute. Any advice wood be very
well appreciated.
Thanks:
Martin:
also advice about working airport.

mark2000ie · 12-08-2009 3:20pm

Volvoboy wrote: »

As would i.

Just aswell you two experienced taxi drivers were not sitting this new test then, that would have been one wrong for both of you and that was one of the easier tricky ones

Taxipete29 · 12-08-2009 6:49pm

mark2000ie wrote: »

Just aswell you two experienced taxi drivers were not sitting this new test then, that would have been one wrong for both of you and that was one of the easier tricky ones

Well what were the harder ones??

Volvoboy · 12-08-2009 7:28pm

Howyadoing wrote: »

Thanks lads,

is there any taxi drivers out there that would
give me some proper advice on taxi driving.
I would like to know what u think about renting
a full taxi or spending 10 or 12 grand on a second
hand car and plate. I have been out of work for about
4 months now getting nothing of social and down to bones
of my savings. I would have to borrow about €10000
to buy something and don't fancy getting any more loans
as i have one at the minute. Any advice wood be very
well appreciated.
Thanks:
Martin:
also advice about working airport.

You'd be doing well to get finance on a car, start off by renting basic for a week costs €120 ex ins.

Ya have to be wide to all types who get in the car, ya pick up 4 ''lads'' in a dodgy area ya have to be tough skinned. In my few years driving a taxi i've had pikeys punch the living day lights outa each another. People getting sick, spilling drink, verbal abuse, some physical abuse, girls pissing in the back of the car, i also know a fella who has had 3 incidents of people taking a **** on the back seat, women are ALWAYS the worst customers. People doing lines of coke in broad daylight, you also have to have a heart made of stone.

One important factor to remember is ya have to know somones story before even attemping to pull in, i remember one night at about 4.30am i was passing the airport roundabout and there was 3 lads at the side of the road hailing a taxi you got to take into fact that they:

Have been kicked out of a taxi, because there's no way they'd hail a taxi there if they've just come out of a pub as they've been closed 3 hours previous, and there's no way they've come from the airport WITH NO BAGS and beside at anygiven time there's 200 taxi's in the Kesh.

And the Kesh another beaut, i've never worked the Kesh but i can tell you that for €400 a year they give ya the privelage to wait upto 2 1/2 hours for a fare, that could be worth €10?

And ya got to be a good actor too, ya dont act the same way in front of a elderly couple as ya would a druggie.

Also beware of high-class whores, these are weapons a friend of mine dropped 2 from Raheny to Ashbourne and when they didnt like the price on the meter they went to strangle him with a pair of tights.

Some of this is second nature to me now but hopefully it will put ya wide to some facts i had to learn the hard way.

Best of luck!

mark2000ie · 12-08-2009 7:41pm

Volvoboy wrote: »

You'd be doing well to get finance on a car, start off by renting basic for a week costs €120 ex ins.

Ya have to be wide to all types who get in the car, ya pick up 4 ''lads'' in a dodgy area ya have to be tough skinned. In my few years driving a taxi i've had pikeys punch the living day lights outa each another. People getting sick, spilling drink, verbal abuse, some physical abuse, girls pissing in the back of the car, i also know a fella who has had 3 incidents of people taking a **** on the back seat, women are ALWAYS the worst customers. People doing lines of coke in broad daylight, you also have to have a heart made of stone.

One important factor to remember is ya have to know somones story before even attemping to pull in, i remember one night at about 4.30am i was passing the airport roundabout and there was 3 lads at the side of the road hailing a taxi you got to take into fact that they:

Have been kicked out of a taxi, because there's no way they'd hail a taxi there if they've just come out of a pub as they've been closed 3 hours previous, and there's no way they've come from the airport WITH NO BAGS and beside at anygiven time there's 200 taxi's in the Kesh.

And the Kesh another beaut, i've never worked the Kesh but i can tell you that for €400 a year they give ya the privelage to wait upto 2 1/2 hours for a fare, that could be worth €10?

And ya got to be a good actor too, ya dont act the same way in front of a elderly couple as ya would a druggie.

Also beware of high-class whores, these are weapons a friend of mine dropped 2 from Raheny to Ashbourne and when they didnt like the price on the meter they went to strangle him with a pair of tights.

Some of this is second nature to me now but hopefully it will put ya wide to some facts i had to learn the hard way.

Best of luck!

Are you looking for a new line of work Volvoboy or are you happy with what you are doing?:)
Would it be fair in saying you would go months without any of the above incidents happening to you? especially when your "wide to all types who get in the car"

Volvoboy · 12-08-2009 7:48pm

mark2000ie wrote: »

Are you looking for a new line of work Volvoboy or are you happy with what you are doing?:)
Would it be fair in saying you would go months without any of the above incidents happening to you? especially when your "wide to all types who get in the car"

No i'm happy with my job only thing that gets to me when i'm waiting for 2 hours for my 1st job of the nite and i can scrape by.

Last week;
H
ad a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats

A extremly abusive woman who informed i was a ****, scumbag, prick and knocked one of the airels off the boot of the car.

And a traveler woman coverd in blood after her fella was beating her trying to hailed me, he seen pulled over and tryed to pull me out of the car.

mark2000ie · 12-08-2009 7:52pm

Volvoboy wrote: »

No i'm happy with my job only thing that gets to me when i'm waiting for 2 hours for my 1st job of the nite and i can scrape by.

Last week;
H
ad a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats

A extremly abusive woman who informed i was a ****, scumbag, prick and knocked one of the airels off the boot of the car.

And a traveler woman coverd in blood after her fella was beating her trying to hailed me, he seen pulled over and tryed to pull me out of the car.

Are you sitting in your car now on your lap top waiting for your first job?

"Had a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats" why you let someone eat in the back of your car?

Volvoboy · 12-08-2009 7:56pm

mark2000ie wrote: »

Are you sitting in your car now on your lap top waiting for your first job?

"Had a fella spill curry sause all over my back seats" why you let someone eat in the back of your car?

It was in a bag but he was spannerd drunk and left if on the back seats, thats another thing invest in leather seat covers, €50 for cheepy jobs or €400 for a complete refit from CUC on ushers island.

mark2000ie · 12-08-2009 8:14pm

Volvoboy wrote: »

It was in a bag but he was spannerd drunk and left if on the back seats, thats another thing invest in leather seat covers, €50 for cheepy jobs or €400 for a complete refit from CUC on ushers island.

Is that complete refit a good job?

blahblah06 · 12-08-2009 8:16pm

mark you will find out for yourself that you will never know whats around the corner

blahblah06 · 12-08-2009 8:17pm

Panel you heading out tonight

blahblah06 · 12-08-2009 8:18pm

mark2000ie wrote: »

Is that complete refit a good job?

i seen a fitting in a skoda today and i have to say I was not impressed

mark2000ie · 12-08-2009 8:27pm

blahblah06 wrote: »

mark you will find out for yourself that you will never know whats around the corner

I know blahblah I did it from 1995 - 2000

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