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It’s hard to over stress the importance of learning junctions thoroughly. They are the cause of a great many serious accidents and, for this reason, the examiner will look very carefully at how well and confidently the pupil deals with them.
Junctions test many skills including steering, road positioning, consideration of other road users, understanding priorities, understanding road markings and signs, speed of approach, signaling, clutch control - and that’s just scratching the surface.So it’s hardly surprising that many test routes incorporate a lot of junctions.
This lesson will teach the basics of junctions, but after that there is no substitute for practice. Practice, practice, practice!
Some instructors teach a specific routine for junction approaches and I heartily recommend it. To begin with you may find this routine hard to pick up but, trust me on this, it is well worth the effort in the long term. If you follow this routine it is far far easier to get your junctions nice and smooth and you are much less likely to forget important things like checking your mirrors at the right time.
This routine is.
- Mirrors.
- Signal.
- Position.
- Speed.
- Look
Or MSPSL. Learn it off by heart. Learn it so it tips off the tongue easily. It really will make a huge difference to your driving. Once you have become well practiced you will no longer have to say it through in your mind, you will just do it and your examiner will be very happy!
Now I’ll show you how to apply that routine to your junction approaches. Learn left turns first.
