But are one, two, or three of the items necessary? (It cannot be all four.) We are not told, and that adds considerably to the difficulty. This question is about what equipment it is necessary to have onboard the vehicle. But it also has other multiple-choice questions where you need to select one or more correct responses, but – and here’s the rub – you are not told how many. The French test has questions, in the British format, requiring one response. Here we have a multiple-choice question there are four possible response of which only one is correct. Often you don’t know how many answers to select.Īgain, let’s do a comparison with the British test. I’d estimate that around a half of the questions are in this format, meaning in a 40-question test you have to answer around 60 questions, and get a higher proportion right. You need to answer both questions correctly to get one point there are no half points in the French test. There are two questions: “In the case of fire, the body of the car protects against heat: yes/no” and “Against toxic fumes: yes/no”. Because where the French test is particularly nasty is that frequently one question is actually made up of two sub question, and you need to answer both correctly to succeed. So far, I’d say we’re even.īut we’re not done yet. Arguably this is compensated by the fact that the British test has 10 more questions, so you need to jump through more hoops to get to the end. So you need to do slightly better in the French test to succeed. Compare that to 43/50 questions for the British test, or a success rate of 86%. For the French test, you need to get 35 out of 40 questions right – that’s a 87.5% success rate. Let’s compare the French and British tests. You need to answer a very high proportion of questions correctly. When I was doing practice tests, there were errors I made because I didn’t know the rule, and errors because I misunderstood the question. And even if your French is fine, there’s a good chance you’ll need to learn a whole bunch of vocabulary relating to car mechanics and driving. You need to have a certain level of French to be able to understand the questions, otherwise the test is just impossible. This is the most basic difficulty facing expats taking the French driving theory test. I hated, loathed and resented every moment I spent studying for it. The French driving theory test is fiendishly difficult. Should you: a) call an ambulance b) have a drink of brandy c) kick them in the face d) run over them again.” I exaggerate but not much. It consisted of questions like, “You hit a pedestrian. Now I remembered the British driving theory test from back in the 90s (yes) when I first vaguely tried to learn to drive. In either case, the first part of your journey to becoming a legal driver in France is the passing your Code de la Route, ie the French driving theory test. (British drivers don’t need to do this, although who knows whether Brexit will change this.) Or maybe, like me, you neglected to learn to drive at home and are now facing the dubious process of learning to do it in France. This seems to be a common problem among US and Australian citizens, resident in France, but who have been unable to exchange their native driving licence for a French one. You may be an expat who has found themselves in the unfortunate position of having to retake your driving test in France.
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