PST No.1 Exercises 1B and 10T
The DSA will call your learner a beginner for this Pre Set Test.
For this PST the following areas will need to be covered in your lesson briefing:
- doors
- seat and head restraint
- seat belt
- mirrors
- accelerator
- foot brake
- clutch
- hand brake
- gears
- steering
- indicators
- starting
- precautions before moving off
- normal stop position
- normal stop use of MSM
- normal stop control
You will need to drive the Examiner from the test centre to a safe place, for this briefing. The SE(Supervising Examiner) will give you directions.
You should use these few minutes as you drive to go through the controls of the car and how the brake and clutch work, don’t waist time take control straight away, and keep in control and signs of weakness and your doomed.
Some errors that may be thrown at you by the examiner
- failing to check mirrors and blind spots before opening doors
- walking around the front of the vehicle
- not closing the door
- twisting the seat belt, or fastening it incorrectly
- not listening to you
- ask irrelevant questions
- not adjusting the seat properly - reach, rake, head restraint
- moving the head to adjust the mirrors
- touching the mirror glass
- using the wrong feet on the pedals
- failing to co-ordinate clutch and gears
- selecting the wrong gears as you instruct in their use
- not correctly palming the gear stick
- not pressing the button to apply the hand brake
- acting the fool
- pulling the hand brake too hard / not hard enough
- trying to dry steer when practicing with the steering wheel
The above faults may be used, as well as many others which you may never have seen before and probably never will see used by a learner driver, so be prepared. Use the following fault analysis check list.
Fault Analysis
- Identify Fault- Say It
- What or Where Should?
- Why Should?
- When to Do/How To Do/How To Judge
- So Next Time?
- Prompt or Guide Next Attempt
- Praise When Done/Be Specific
Don’t forget your structure for the briefing
- Recap
- Lesson Objective
- Lesson Breifing
- Debrief
Make sure you cover all the main points and keep to the structure, don’t miss anything out, is you do cover it in the Debrief at the end.
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