UK driving test question

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Skweeky

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAn...code/DG_070338

Not and definitive as bAWa but may give you some clues.

With regard to your question, if I was going onto a roundabout from a standing start I certainly wouldn't leave the car in first gear the whole way. Several reasons for that. Firstly you would not be able to build up sufficient speed to drive safely. Secondly it would not demonstrate sympathy for the vehicle, over-revving it. Thirdly I can think of no reason not to change gear.

Obviously if you are moving and don't have to stop then on approach you should adjust your speed and gear to make the manoeuvre. However the same goes for a corner, a bend in the road or a junction. Bearing in mind that by doing so you can use engine retardation to slow the vehicle which is better than using the brakes.

[Elysium]

just as i guideline for taking the test, if its minor roads or B roads, they usually teach you to take it in 2nd. If you have to give way and stop, then of course its ok to pull away in 1st gear as long as you shift up a gear as soon as you are up to speed and dont ride the clutch (dont "roll" round the corner, "drive" around it).

When youre on A or M roads (dual carrigeways, motorways etc) approaching a roundabout at speed, then they normally teach you to bring your speed down to prepare for it, but take it in 3rd gear.. Same applies as before if you have to give way and stop.

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Roundabout on a motorway.

[Elysium]

sliproad junctions etc...

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There's no motorway driving involved in the test, unless there's been a substantial change in the law since last year.

[Skweeky]

No, there's not, but if, for example you would take the A road from Airdrie to Auchenkilns roundabout ( a dual carriageway with 70mph speed limit), you would come accross some roundabouts.

Anyway, thanks for the replies

[Rat Faced]

Just put your foot down.

If he has his eyes closed he cant specify what you failed on...

[Skweeky]

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No, there's not, but if, for example you would take the A road from Airdrie to Auchenkilns roundabout ( a dual carriageway with 70mph speed limit), you would come accross some roundabouts.

Anyway, thanks for the replies

The chances of you getting to that roundabout, from that direction, during daylight hours and not having to stop are fairly slim.

Bottom line, pull away in first and change to second when appropriate. If you were going towards Castlecarry and tried to do that roundabout in 1st you would be a mental. Fuck you'd almost certainly be in 3rd by the time you cleared the hazard.

[Skweeky]

Yeah, it's kinda self explanatory when the roundabout is big enough, it's the wee ones I worry about, like the ones at Lenziemill