I’m slowly revising for theory test, hpt and cpc etc.
However I really struggle reading – after a couple of paragraphs my eyes wander and I can’t take the information in. I have the Guide to driving goods vehicles etc. Trouble with the book is that there might be info you need in a small sentence IE a breaking distance or eyesight requirement. Its part of the paragraph rather than in a big box saying remember me !!
Any other tips for revising it apart from reading it ? I have app for iPad and android and do those questions at any spare moment. Will it be ok practicing with those and the CD on the computer or do I need to sit and revise the material ? If the latter is the case I might start jotting down notes or highlighting the books.
I always found that getting a friend who knows the subject mattter to ask me questions on it is the best way and if I did not know the answer then I try to find it in the available material being used
We all learn in different ways so what way do you learn best?
Try talking to someone about the answers and that way you will be able to remember them. It worked for me as i am just like you, my eyes look elsewhere
Try reading a different topic each nite for a half an hour each nite before you sleep. It should be fresh in your mind when you wake the next day. Reading or should I say over reading tends to fry the brain
irishexpat:
Try reading a different topic each nite for a half an hour each nite before you sleep. It should be fresh in your mind when you wake the next day.
Its surprising how much info the brain assimilates when asleep
Those doing the practical training will usually find that although they were struggling with something one day, after a good sleep all seems to have sorted itself out the next day - like by magic
irishexpat:
Try reading a different topic each nite for a half an hour each nite before you sleep. It should be fresh in your mind when you wake the next day.
Its surprising how much info the brain assimilates when asleep
Those doing the practical training will usually find that although they were struggling with something one day, after a good sleep all seems to have sorted itself out the next day - like by magic
Believe it or not my instructor had many talents, a very intelligent man so to speak. 1 of them was that he was also a hypnotist, I was frying the brain so to speak, as I was trying to take to much in over a long period of time, he suggested the half hour before sleep, then question yourself on what you took in the night before. Worked for me. I’m still at the Highway Code book now after passing my test, and near enough no it from the front to the back. It is helping my so much with my driving on the road now, as before, where I thought I knew everything, but in fairness I knew ■■■■ all
I have the guide to driving goods vehicles. I found after I read it there wasnt much point in reading it again apart from going back and re-reading the drivers hours. I found it didn’t really help much in the way of practicing for the Multiple choice theory part. To revise for this I bought myself the Complete LGV & Hazard Perception CD-Rom (2012). I just kept doing mock tests. I also registered with Theory4all online (through my training company) which meant I could practice the questions on my mobile whilst at work. Just keep doing the mock tests and practice subjects as much as you can for at least a mont before hand. I did and I got 100 correct out of 100 questions. You’ll find that half the questions are either common sense or variations of other questions. I would say to take extra care with Weights & Dimensions as I found they are the bits which can throw you (with trailer over hangs and width restrictions etc etc), also drivers hours. You get to a point where you simply remember all the question/variations of questions. I think there’s just over 1300 questions.
Sorry I can’t help you with the HP, I’ve failed it twice up to now.
Get some fluorescent pens with the thick nibs at the end and in different colours, then put a line through the sentence you need to remember, i would seperate the stuff you need to learn from the stuff that just gets in the way. With the different colouring you could note in order of priority, the parts of most importance, it worked in the class room when i was in RAF, seperating the wheat from the chaff, and at the last minute you will remember the colouring.
The theory test book is good, but very large and often confusing as the same questions are reworded two or three different ways. On the other hand, this is very useful when it comes to your actual multiple choice test as it helps things stick your mind. There are lots of mock multiple choice tests available for free online, but they tend to share many of the same questions. When you read the multiple choice book, you’ll find that a lot of the answers are common sense stuff that you’ll know anyway so I found it helped to have a notepad and write down the stuff that needed specific answers in a short sentence. Stuff like speed limits, width/length of vehicles before markers needed, bridge heights etc etc - stuff that you need to know a PROPER answer for rather than just stuff you can work out by process of elimination.
