Training assessment answers

Many of us have stated the same thing nt. The official response from DVSA is as follows and taken directlt from the Matters of Testing blog.


Chris (DVSA) — 29/03/2017
Hello everyone,

Some of you have got in touch and asked why you can’t see the answers to the questions you got wrong on your assessment. There are some good reasons why we can’t do that.

The first is that we don’t write the assessment. We set the topics and check the questions but the assessment is written by the 3 awarding organisations.

Secondly, it’s to stop anyone sharing the answers so someone else could memorise them. The assessment isn’t there to test how good your memory is - that’s why it’s open book! It’s there to make sure that you can apply the information from the MOT testing guide, inspection manuals and special notices in the correct way.

So, we won’t be able to share the answers with you. But we are looking at providing feedback in the future, so you know what areas you need to look up and go back over.

We are also aware that there have been a few instances where questions could have been clearer. We’re sorry about this, this is a new process for us too and we want to make sure this doesn’t happen again. We’ve set up a process to carefully check all of the questions and they should improve year on year.

Thanks,

Chris

"We’ve set up a process to carefully check all of the questions and they should improve year on year."

They SHOULD improve year on year? They should be correct from day one

No we should not. The MOT has been around long enough that the 'experts' should be able to choose relevant questions with correct answers, but we have to wonder about the personnel charged with the task. I had a three hour training session then the exam. The instructor proudly told us he was ex VOSA,a VE i believe, and I picked up on a couple of things in the training session that were just plain wrong. First, that all dual purpose vehicles must be four wheel drive, and also that if just the end of the coil spring was broken off, it was a pass. I did try to correct him but was shot down. He also proudly told us that he was one of the people involved in setting the questions for the exam. Easy to see why we are having problems with the standards.

Come on aylesburyjock don't be so hard on the guy, he was right and admittedly I think you misunderstood him, you missed his point, so I'll point it out LOL,  The instructor proudly told us he was ex VOSA,a VE i believe