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Here is a short 20 question quiz about driving from MSN, Average score for men 83, women 78 at the time I took it. Missed 100 by one question.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/quiz/driving-skills-quiz/home.aspx

I feel bad....I missed 3.
However I don't agree with the answer to one of the questions I missed. Another one I missed was an incomplete answer, and picked what seemed more acurate, but I'm pretty certain it will never apply to me anyway. The 3rd was a legit miss, and I realized why as soon as a read it.

Another answer I got correct is actually incorrect per IL state law (but it was the only logical answer), so I know there are mistakes in the test.

I'll avoid speaking specifics in case others want to take the test without being influenced.

100%

A couple of those are pretty tricky if you don't read them thoroughly.

I missed 2. When I took my actual learner's permit test I missed one because I misread one of the answers. When I took the test for my license I got 100%.

Missed 2 got 90%

OK, so I got 85, but I'm not from the US, so that's not so bad.
My errors were questions where the Belgium law differs from the US one.

You have to have cookies turned on. I scored ZERO. :p

I went back and took it again and scored 95.

I got a 90.

10.
If a police officer believes that you are driving under the influence:
Your Answer: You can refuse to be tested for the presence of alcohol or drugs.
Right Answer: You can refuse to be tested but will face stiff penalties for doing so.

Well shoot, what's the difference. You can refuse to be tested in both cases, and my answer didn't deny that there would be stiff penalties.

14.
What should you do when facing a flashing red traffic light?
Your Answer: Prepare to stop.
Right Answer: Stop, yield the right of way, then go when it is safe.

The answer I was looking for was "Treat it like a stop sign". And it looks like the right answer summed it up better than my answer, prepare to stop.

Only 80%. :( I got caught by the DUI one. In CA, at least, you do not "face stiff penalties for refusing" a DUI test, but your refusal is treated like a failed test, which can have varying levels of penalty.

The "correct answer" to the blocking the intersection question is flat-out wrong per CA law.

-soD

100% here, but only because I suspected -- correctly -- that this test would demand a different answer on #7 than was required in my driver education course decades ago.

90%. not sure wat i got wrong

Ugggh got a 95! how can i check to see what I got wrong?

Ugggh got a 95! how can i check to see what I got wrong?

When you get to the page that says "Your resuls" and the percentage, over toward the upper-right corner of the screen (look right from the text "Your results") is a link that says "Review quiz answers". Click it.

-soD

95%

Avg. for my age group: 75%
Avg. for Texas: 82%

My wrong one:
13. A warning sign is usually what color and shape?
Your answer: Red circle with white lettering or symbols.
Right answer: Yellow diamond shape with black lettering or symbols.

I got a 95%. I drive for a living, so that is ok.

You have to have cookies turned on. I scored ZERO. :p

I went back and took it again and scored 95.

I didn't turn on cookies until the last five questions (I remembered your post then) I scored a 20. After cookies I scored a 95....high beam/low beam question got me. :D - Dale

The DUI got me too.
The school bus one I got right, but the answer isn't correct. School buses have flashing lights which are used when they slow/stop, but don't require surrounding traffic to stop. Typical example would be as they come to a rail crossing.
On top of that, IL laws allows the bus driver to wave you pass. I have only had that happen once where the bus was stopped at the beginning of a road....apparently it arrived there about 15 minutes early and was waiting, but still had its lights going.

I didn't turn on cookies until the last five questions (I remembered your post then) I scored a 20. After cookies I scored a 95....high beam/low beam question got me. :D - Dale

That's the one I missed as well.

That's the one I missed as well.

(reminds self to NEVER ride with PaleMelanesian in the fog!:eek:)

Probably the scariest driving I've ever done was the "seasonal in the fog on a narrow mountainside road course of death" in Germany...but man the food was sooo worth it. It didn't matter if you were going down or coming up a mountain there was something good to eat somewhere close.

All the really big pileups happen on the autobahn.

Not a pile up video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E01rUuJtsdI&feature=player_embedded - Dale

90%.
miss read the cross a double yellow line question..

the DUI and cop one was worded poorly.
I interpret Refusing to submit to testing but face stiff penalities as a WORSE conclusion then None of the above...

(( if you are NOT drinking - then doing the test and going home is the best outcome...)

but i am good with 90%
Steve

Got 90%, which seems about typical.

Missed the double yellow line question. While this may be legal, it's dangerous! Where I live these lines are normally only seen on curving two-lane highways where the speed limit can be 50+ mph. What are the chances of being rear-ended? Better to proceed to the next intersection, etc. and double back. In light traffic, it's a different matter.

The "blocking intersection" question appears to not consider the left turn "rule". If you are able to enter the intersection on the green light when making a left turn, you are entitled to wait until the oncoming traffic stops and then complete your turn, even after your light has turned red. The cross-traffic must allow you to clear the intersection. I agree that in a "straight through" situation, you should not enter an intersection if you can not get completely across.

I bet many wrong answers are due to the tricky wording. As a retired university instructor, I never liked multiple-choice questions because they reward memorization skills rather than understanding.

Cheers,

Roger

... The "blocking intersection" question appears to not consider the left turn "rule". If you are able to enter the intersection on the green light when making a left turn, you are entitled to wait until the oncoming traffic stops and then complete your turn, even after your light has turned red. The cross-traffic must allow you to clear the intersection. ...

This varies with state / provincial law. Where I was first licensed, the state driver's manual matches your description. Where I am licensed now, this is forbidden, the car must be out of the intersection before the light turns red.

I still follow this method, as long as I'm not in danger of getting blocked inside the box. If ever caught, my (probably futile) defense will be to bring the other state's drivers manual to court and display its instructions about how to make left-hand turns, while pointing out that this state's manual doesn't have any instructions for making the turn.

fuzzy:

That is the same for NYS. You should NOT cause a gridlock, however, it shouldn't be possible to cause a gridlock while making that left turn. Only one car can pull under the light at a time.

There are some stoplights that don't have a left turn signal and the streets are so busy, if you don't pull under the light, you will never get by

Got and 85 by missing 3.
Entering highway at speed; DUI; other car passing.
But I disagree with their choice of answer, and still think my highway and passing answers are more safe than theirs.

fuzzy:
That is the same for NYS. You should NOT cause a gridlock, however, it shouldn't be possible to cause a gridlock while making that left turn. Only one car can pull under the light at a time.
...

Where I live, it very definitely is possible to get stuck in gridlock while trying to do a left-hand turn. Oncoming traffic that ignores the anti-gridlock rule can completely fill the lanes, making a left turn impossible. At freeway onramps, the FLOW lights can back up traffic all the way to the intersection, filling the ramp so there is no room for left turning vehicle to leave the box. In this case, one must be willing to pull alongside previous vehicles on the ramp, or be ready to bail out by aborting the turn and pulling straight through the intersection if the light turns red.

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95%...meh.

I made 100%. I guess I've learned something in the past 33 years of driving. When I took my test for my permit I missed 1 question scoring a 95%. I don't remember what my driving score was when I took my test for the license.

Got a 90.

Got the Double yellow line question wrong - I still can't figure the question out. Sounds like the answer says I can cross a double yellow line when it is a broken line.

Got the passing question wrong - sorry that was not what I was taught 35 years ago.

I disagree on the merge question, but figured out what they wanted. The answer they give makes an assumption which if wrong means I violate the law.

Where I live, it very definitely is possible to get stuck in gridlock while trying to do a left-hand turn. Oncoming traffic that ignores the anti-gridlock rule can completely fill the lanes, making a left turn impossible. At freeway onramps, the FLOW lights can back up traffic all the way to the intersection, filling the ramp so there is no room for left turning vehicle to leave the box. In this case, one must be willing to pull alongside previous vehicles on the ramp, or be ready to bail out by aborting the turn and pulling straight through the intersection if the light turns red.


At a four-way intersection, if the light stays red when you are already under it, that's fine. On-coming traffic will eventually come to a halt and before side traffic gets moving, you complete the left turn. That way you never cause a gridlock.

At a four-way intersection, if the light stays red when you are already under it, that's fine. On-coming traffic will eventually come to a halt and before side traffic gets moving, you complete the left turn. That way you never cause a gridlock.

Not true.

In the first case I wrote about, the oncoming traffic is already halted in the box, in my path. Though I'm not causing the gridlock -- the other cars are -- I am a participant, and am therefore ticketable too.

In the second case, the cars blocking my path out towards the left, inches outside the box, are not blocking the path of the cars on my right that just got the green light. But I am in their path, so I am the only ticketable cause of gridlock.

So, an exit strategy is necessary. My state prefers anti-gridlock over the ability to get at least one left-turning car through each cycle of the light. But I haven't yet seen anyone ticketed for trying to do the latter.