A total overhaul. The examination of the Highway Code is getting a facelift from Tuesday with the renewal of all its questions, now “clearer” and “more intelligible”, according to the interministerial delegation for Road Safety. “The difficulty should not be in the question but in the response to it,” said Florence Guillaume, interministerial delegate for Road Safety, during a press point on Monday.
The question bank for the general theoretical exam (ETG) now includes 1,037 questions, and will be operational from Tuesday in approved centers. The new questions were written “in consultation with professionals in the sector” but also with a “language simplification professional”, explained Florence Guillaume.
Exam conditions remain unchanged
Faced with the growth of bicycles and scooters, new “empathetic” questions have been added “where we put ourselves in the place of the other user,” she continued. The new questions include, for example: “A scooter user is vulnerable because: his balance is precarious (yes or no), his small size makes him difficult to detect (yes or no)”.
“More than half of the deaths on the roads were traveling in a vehicle with less than four wheels,” recalled the interministerial delegate for Road Safety. In terms of form, the visuals of the questions have also been modified for “more realism”, in particular with drone shots for certain situations. The exam conditions are not changed: 35 correct answers are still required out of the 40 questions asked of the candidate. The last modification of the Highway Code exam questions was in 2016.