Last Monday the new style motorcycle tests started. As I'm training to be a motorcycle instructor, last Tuesday, the second day of these new tests I was able to watch three test being conducted, two out of three failed because of the swerve avoidance test.
I'm not an expert, I'm still training to be an instructor. But, this part does seem to go against the DSA's own policy of developing hazard awareness in test candidates.
The theory test has the hazard awareness aspect, where candidates are required to respond to developing hazards. Hazards that during practical training they are encouraged to respond to in the real world by reducing their speed for example.
In Module One of the practical test they are required to accelerate towards a hazard and then swerve round it.
Surely, if the candidate uses the correct hazard observations they would have seen the developing hazard and as a result they wouldn't be accelerating. On a 125cc machine there is no alternative but to accelerate hard from the bend or you cant achieve the minimum speed through the speed trap to pass the test.
Any theories as to what the DSA's ideas behind this section of the practical test are?
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