PST No.7 Exercises 7P and 12T
The Supervising Examiner will describe your learner as a partly trained student. After the word picture from the SE or Supervising Examiner, you will go straight into the recap. Don’t forget this is now your time to take control and watch everything the SE is doing, especially when they go to move off, a prime time to throw a fault your way.
Make certain they have done their Cock Pit Drill. And don’t forget the first junction you come to will be in a few seconds after leaving the car park of the test centre, so don’t miss an opportunity to guide and or prompt
One of the first things to mention here is the difference between approaching a junction, and emerging from a junction. There have been instances where the SE has asked for a lesson on either subject, and the trainee has briefed on the other!
For the PST the areas to cover are:
- briefing on approaching junctions
- mirrors
- signals
- brakes
- gears
- coasting
- too fast on approach
- too slow on approach
- position
- pedestrians
- cross approaching traffic
- right corner cut
Whether you teach MSMPSL or MSM or MSPSL, stick to the procedure and don’t deviate on route otherwise you will confuse yourself and the pupil.
Some typical faults that may be thrown at you during your part 3 instructional test
- missing out some of MSPSL - out of sequence, mirror checks missed
- approaching a junction too quickly
- corner cutting
- over steering
- coasting
- approaching the turn in the wrong gear
- turning without looking for hazards such as pedestrians
- crossing the path of other vehicles unsafely
- bad co-ordination - foot pedals, steering, gears
- failing to position correctly for left or right turns
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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