Vehicle Handling, Manoeuvres and Driving Conditions
Control and manoeuvres
A candidate must understand steering, braking, and accelerating smoothly, and how weight transfer affects grip. Learn the correct sequence for turns, lane changes, and parking, including mirror checks, shoulder checks, and signalling. Know how to handle skids, hydroplaning, and emergency braking, and understand the role of anti-lock brakes.
Driving conditions
Understand how rain, snow, ice, fog, wind, and darkness change traction and visibility. Learn when to use low beams in fog and why high beams make things worse. Know how to drive on hills, in construction zones, and on highways, including entering, merging, and exiting.
Traps in questions
Questions often describe a skid or a blowout and offer answers that involve hard braking or sharp steering. Both are usually wrong. In a skid, look and steer where you want to go and ease off the accelerator. In a blowout, hold the wheel firmly and slow gradually. Watch for questions about following distance in fog and about whether to use cruise control on wet roads.
Rule of thumb
Brake and steer separately in low-grip conditions; combining them uses up the grip you need. Worked example: your vehicle begins to hydroplane on a wet highway. Ease off the accelerator, hold the wheel steady, avoid braking hard, and wait for the tyres to regain contact before making any correction.
Study approach
Rehearse each emergency response as a short sequence of steps so the correct answer stands out.