scott wrote:

> Those questions are all really stupid.  My favourite:
> 
> You come up behind a slow driver, you should:
> 
> A. Drive as close as possible to him to make him speed up.
> B. Leave a safe distance and overtake only when you are sure it is safe 
> to do so.
> C. Press your horn repeatedly to let him know you want to go past.
> D. Ram him off the road.
> 
> I dunno, but when I did it, it was with pencil and paper, and you had 35 
> questions like the above to do in 45 minutes.  After 10-15 minutes I 
> (and a few others) had finished, checked and double-checked and left.  I 
> wonder if anyone actually stayed until the end?

I was the first person to leave also. My sister wasn't far behind.

I wonder if anybody actually chose options C or D? And if they did, this 
ought to be an instant failure - but I suspect what actually happens is 
that if you get X questions correct, you pass, regardless of which 
questions you got right or how dangerous your wrong answers were.

One of the other questions was something like

When driving on a motorway, which lane should you use?

A. The outside lane.
B. The insane lane.
C. The lane with the least traffic.
D. The outermost lane that's going fast enough.

I'm thinking that people might geniunely believe that C is the correct 
answer. I mean, if you weren't very clear on the rules of the road, 
option C seems logically reasonable. (The correct answer is obviously D.)

I guess some of the people taking the test might not know enough English 
to know what a ****-off big sign saying "STOP" means. (But then, how are 
you reading the test questions?)

But some of the questions - like the one you gave above - are so 
mind-bendingly stupid that it's unsurprising that I got a 98% score.

(The question I got wrong was related to stopping distances. Face it, do 
*you* know whether the quoted stopping distance at 70 MPH is 310 yards 
or 320 yards? Because I have absolutely no clue. I also have no clue how 
far 320 yards *is* in the first place, so it seems kind of moot to me...)

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