HTA: the most complicated issues temporarily removed – Le Figaro

Given the catastrophic figures reconsider the rules of the road, the question lowest success rate will be removed from the test from 10 May.

is the new test of traffic too complicated? In the space of a weekend, the highway code completion rates increased from around 70% usually, 16.7% Monday, showing a fall of over 50%. A catastrophic figure due to the introduction of new questions. The latter having obtained the lowest success rate will therefore temporarily withdrawn, announced Wednesday the delegation to the security and road traffic.

“Given the very low success rate” the new examination, it was decided to “remove interim basis, effective 10 May”, questions accusing the lowest success rate, said the DSCR in a statement. These will however “gradually reintroduced” in the test, sometimes reformulated “as and when familiarizing candidates with the new approach to the review of the Code,” according to the delegation.

the supplementary examinations seats will be open during the month of May “to allow unsuccessful applicants can board quickly, as soon as available, and always free examination”. “New series of typical questions of the reform” will also be broadcast on the internet – the DSCR – for candidates who have not had access to “appropriate training”

Pascale Maset General Secretary. the SNICA-FO union inspectors of driving licenses, this decision is a “good idea”. However, “it would have taken yet anticipate these foreseeable difficulties and allow time for driving schools to teach new questions to the candidates,” she explains Le Figaro. The Secretary General also points to the difficult implementation of that decision. “With this late announcement, which falls on the eve of a long weekend, delegates who put the code will be in trouble on Monday and Tuesday to update the bases of questions,” she said.

“The goal is not that nobody has the code”

“things are going to regulate. In fifteen days, will be partially recovered, we do not reform without adjustment time, “insisted Tuesday interministerial delegate Emmanuel Barbe. However, he relativized the many failures, arguing that “many people were 30 correct answers (40, note), so there lacked in five to succeed.” “The goal is not that nobody has the code, it is a reform for youth!”, Indicated the interministerial delegate.

Since Monday, the exam questions are chosen from 1000 – against 700 previously – being updated, including aerial views, and address new issues as vulnerable road users (bicycles, pedestrians .. .) “eco-driving”, first aid and new technologies. This new code review is part of a reform of the driving license announced by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve in June 2014 to modernize the review and reduce the crossing times (98 days on average in 2014), and therefore the cost for applicants (1500 euros).