Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #786 in Software
• Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd
• Released on: 2006-08-04
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98

Customer Reviews

Great! But remember your password
I can't reccomend this enough! Its a great peice of software, it has everything you'll need to pass your test. The mock driving test is the jewel in the crown, it shows you EXCATLY what will be in your practical exam and how it will be run.

However, if you decide to protect your account by adding a password, REMEMBER IT. If you don't they is no way the disc will remind you. If you forget, you'll have to make another account and start from sratch. Take it from me, its very annoying when you forget.

passed with just this and some common sense
I know the test is supposed to make sure that you're fully aware of all the rules, laws, and guidelines, but being honest most people just want it out of the way so they can book the practical.
As long as you remember to increase the size of the hazard perception videos, they're pretty close to the real test (perhaps a little longer). Muggins here never actually noticed you could increase the size, and spent the last three weeks practicing on something about half the size of the test videos. First time I tried the perception test, I think I got about 30/75 - in my actual test today, I got 67/75 thanks to the practice I had with this DVD.
As long as you do the theory side of things, and have a bit of common sense, this will get you through the whole test no problem. Enjoy, I'm off out for some beer to celebrate!

Questions OK, hazard perception lacking
As other reviewers have said, the question part of this program is pretty good - it asks you questions from the official DSA question bank, and keeps track of questions you've got wrong in the past - pretty much all one would expect of such a program.

The hazard perception isn't very good, for two main reasons. First, the videos are compressed/low resolution, such that the detail you can see is far below the eyesight required to get a license; to get full marks the program expects you to identify hazards which are literally nothing but compression artefact blobs. Second, the videography is somewhat amateurish; for example the night driving videos are nothing but a sea of black with moving spots of white, with colours saturated so that red, amber and green lights and reflectors all show up as white.

The software also has some curious bugs; for example it says 'test passed' even if you got fewer than the required number of hazard perception points.

However, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of hazard perception videos available; enough for about ten practice tests at fourteen videos per test. And, despite the failings outlined above, I did pass my theory test and hazard perception tests after using this software.

On balance this software cost me only ~£7 including shipping and I did pass my theory and hazard perception tests after using it. It could be better, but at the price it's hard to complain.

Note: Don't worry if your performance on the hazard perception is patchy when you use the software; mine was too, but in the actual exam I was fine.