As you will know, a hazard is some kind of danger that the driver may have to take some action to deal with it, such as slowing down or changing your position.
The purpose of this test, is to show that you have the skills to identify the hazard and when you take action, in real life that you can respond to them in good time.
The HPT test consists of 14 video clips of various driving scenes. For example, driving along a busy shopping centre road; driving along a dual-carriageway or country road. The clips may also be at night.
Each video clip has a ‘scoring window’. you are marked on how soon you identify the hazard by clicking the mouse. Each clip has a maximum of 5 points. Which means , the sooner you can identify the developing hazard the higher your score. although you you can click as many times as you want, you will score zero points if its too fast – like playing a video game.
As mentioned earlier, a clip may have more than one hazard to identify.This double hazard is random. It could be the first clip, the last one or anywhere in between.
The pass mark is 44 from a maximum of 75 points