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Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees
(www.independent.co.uk)
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It's not even hard. You just read the highway code which isn't long and is mostly common sense and then take the test. I passed it on the first attempt.
There hazard perception bit is infuriating but the actual theory bit is easy.
There are a bunch of £5 apps with mock tests on them. Even James May made one.
My sister a Nintendo DS game which had all of the tests on it, isn't what old medium for which to distribute it but I guess it worked.
I just did a bunch of online ones, I don't think I even paid for them.
Some of them don't exactly replicate the hazard perception part. My brother misunderstood and thought you were supposed to spam click as fast as possible for the whole duration of each hazard, which worked just fine on his practice website, but got him instafailed for too many clicks on the real thing.
Did he only realise that after the 128th time?
No, but if he hadn't been bullied by people who'd passed when he told them he'd failed and interrogated about what on Earth he could have done to fail, it would probably have taken him more tries than it did.