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Question about marking

  • 22-04-2017 9:30pm
    #1
    Procent18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi all,

    What would be considered a mark grade 3 in anticipate under anticipation ? I have received such a mark today and failed my test... What could this mark be for ? Stopping the car at a stop sign or watching out for pedestrians ?

    Regards


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  • #2
    Bigdreamer123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭Bigdreamer123


    Procent18 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    What would be considered a mark grade 3 in anticipate under anticipation ? I have received such a mark today and failed my test... What could this mark be for ? Stopping the car at a stop sign or watching out for pedestrians ?

    Regards

    Was this Churchtown driving centre by any chance?


  • #3
    pat1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭pat1981


    Procent18 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    What would be considered a mark grade 3 in anticipate under anticipation ? I have received such a mark today and failed my test... What could this mark be for ? Stopping the car at a stop sign or watching out for pedestrians ?

    Regards

    My 50 cents,

    You need to stop at a stop sign or solid line at a junction. Maybe you did not anticipate a pedestrian crossing a px.

    Anticipating pedestrians crossing roads, giving way if necessary, once a pedestrian is on a road they have right of way. (Did you brake hard when a pedestrian crossed the road, if at all they did cross the road).

    A grade 3 is a major fault, during your test can you remember such a fault . It's a shame the examiner didn't point out where you went wrong, although their not obliged to.

    Did you move away in a timely manner at traffic lights, or could you have stopped at a traffic sequence when lights went amber- red?

    Maybe ask your instructor if you hired one and ask for his/her advice on this,

    Better luck next time,


  • #4
    Procent18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭Procent18


    Nope, it wasn't in Churchtown.

    The situation I can remember was when a pedestrian was crossing the road 20 metres ahead of me in town and I have slowed down and dropped down to first and kept driving slowly and the second occasion was a woman standing on a footpath and looking in the direction where I was coming from but I kept driving on as there was no pedestrian crossing there.

    Also, what would be the best idea to speed up the date of the next exam as I can't go on the cancellation list as I'm away and have already booked one.


  • #5
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,637 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Procent18 wrote: »
    Nope, it wasn't in Churchtown.

    The situation I can remember was when a pedestrian was crossing the road 20 metres ahead of me in town and I have slowed down and dropped down to first and kept driving slowly

    Is that what is taught now? I was taught you should go back into first unless i was stopped and was starting off again. If i was changing down to drive slowly i would change down into 2nd.
    Procent18 wrote: »
    and the second occasion was a woman standing on a footpath and looking in the direction where I was coming from but I kept driving on as there was no pedestrian crossing there.

    Maybe they thought you had not seen the pedestrian at all? If she had stepped out into the road would you have had time to stop?


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