The DSA classify examiner will describe your learner as a partly trained for this PST.
PST No.3 Exercises 4P and 7T
After the word picture from the SE, you will get into the passenger seat and the SE into the drivers seat. You'll stay there for the next hour.
From the test centre the student is yours, take control and don’t forget you are in total control, watch the SE as they prepare to move away, this is where the first faults will begin.
For this PST, will encompass the following areas:
- briefing on turn in the road
- co-ordination of the controls
- observation
- accuracy
You will need to try to cover these areas in your briefing or on the move, don't get distracted by the SE if they start asking irrelevant questions not pertaining to the subject matter. Take control and be assertive, don’t be flustered if you don’t know the answer then don’t make one up, tell then we will cover that in a minute.
Some errors that the SE may through at you are:
- forgetting blind spots when moving off
- mirror, signal, manoeuvre, position, speed, look MSPSL checks
- failing to carry out effective observations before moving away to do the turn in the road
- will definitely try to do the manoeuvre too fast
- steering too slowly/crossing arms
- bad co-ordination of the foot pedals
- lack of control, rolling back
- failing to look all around
- not taking effective observations all round throughout the manoeuvre
- waving oncoming traffic through.
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 Briefing
- 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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