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Guide To The Taxi Licence Knowledge Test In
Cambridge
Guide to the taxi licence knowledge test Some tips and
advice to help you pass your test for your taxi
licence
This is guidance for you on what you will need to learn to
pass the taxi licence knowledge test.
Please note that it is your responsibility to buy maps and
use other resources to learn about Cambridge.
Also, you must learn what you think is relevant - this is
only a guide.
There are 100 questions in the test, divided into four
sections, and you need to get 80 percent to pass.
Therefore the more questions you attempt to answer the
better.
You must attempt all four sections to pass the test.
In the first section of the test there are 15 questions on
rules and regulations - for this you need to study the taxi
guide (given to you at your first appointment).
Where an answer is required by ticking a box, make sure
that it is plain which box you have ticked.
Types of questions
Questions will cover topics including:
The difference between hackney carriage and private
hire
How do you charge fares, by meter or quote
What you should do with the paper licence and badge issued
by us
How and when you should let us know about any convictions,
change of address or accident damage
Seat belt laws
How to assist passengers with luggage
In the second section you will need to have learnt:
All the streets within the city boundary
The locations for anywhere that a resident or someone
visiting Cambridge might wish to go.
Fifty places of interest will be listed and you will need
to learn which streets they are on.
These include:
All colleges, porters lodges and anything to do with
university, eg the sports grounds, libraries and conference
centres
Public houses (see www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk);
Restaurants (see www.cluelessaboutcambridge.co.uk);
Theatres
Cinemas
Hospitals
Hotels and bed and breakfasts
Sports centres and swimming pools
In the third section you will be given a map on which there
are 25 numbered lines leading to buildings and streets in
the city.
You will be asked to write down the building or street name
shown on the map that corresponds to the number.
In the fourth section we will ask you to write down the
route, including the street names, that you would take to
complete a number of journeys using the shortest route.
The Knowledge Test Of Dacorum Borough
Council
Before a Hackney Carriage or Private Hire Driver Licence is
granted to an applicant, he/she is required to pass the
Council's Knowledge test, checking geographical knowledge
of the Borough and knowledge of the byelaws/conditions that
govern Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers.
Test dates are regularly set throughout the year. The
test consists of three different papers and lasts for two
and a half hours.
Applicants may take the test up to three times within 12
months and will not have to retake any of the three papers
they have already passed in previous tests. If an
applicant fails all three attempts within a year they must
wait a period of three months following the final test
before re-applying (previous pass marks will not be carried
forward when making a renewed application).
Section A
Tests the applicant's knowledge of locations of named
buildings. The paper consists of questions covering
the whole area of the Borough, Hemel Hempstead,
Berkhamsted, Tring, Long Marston and Other Areas.
Other areas include Great Gaddesden, Kings Langley,
Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Felden, Flamstead, Aldbury, Potten
End, Friars Wash, Frithsden, Wigginton, Little Gaddesden
and Markyate.
Upon application, applicants will be issued a list of the
questions used for the test. There are 100 questions
for Hemel Hempstead section A, applicants will be asked 25
of these questions in the test. There are 36
Berkhamsted questions listed, applicants will be asked 12
in the test. There are 12 questions each for Tring
and other areas listed, applicants will be asked three each
of these in the test.
Hackney Driver applicants must answer a minimum of 33
questions correctly out of the total 43 to pass section A.
Private Hire applicants must answer 15 correctly from the
Hemel Hempstead questions and eight from the Berkhamsted,
Tring and Other Areas questions to pass section A.
There is one hour to answer Section A and Section C before
having a short comfort break and continuing on to Section
B.
Example:
Greenway First School
Answer:
Crossways Berkhamsted
Buildings likely to appear in this paper are schools, pubs,
restaurants, sports facilities, hotels, shops, residential
homes, churches, and anywhere of public interest.
Section B
The questions in this paper give the name of two different
roads. Applicants will be expected to describe the
shortest, most direct route between these two places,
naming all the streets and roads on the route they are
taking.
Applicants will be asked the same amount of questions per
area as in Section A, and will have to answer the same
number of questions correctly to pass.
Applicants will have one and a half hours to complete
section B.
Example:
Westron Gardens to Okeford Drive:
Route is: Mortimer Hill, Brook Street, High Street,
Christchurch Road.
Section C
Hackney applicants will be issued with a copy of the
Council's Hackney Carriage Byelaws and the Taxi Vehicle
Licence Conditions.
Private Hire applicants will be issued with a copy of the
Council's Private Hire Driver Conditions and Private Hire
Vehicle Conditions.
Applicants will be expected to correctly answer 15 out of
the 20 questions about the Byelaws or Conditions in Section
C. They will have one hour to answer sections A and
C.
To order an application pack, including the knowledge test
questions, please call one of the numbers below.
Address: Licensing Division Civic Centre, Hemel Hempstead,
Herts HP1 1HH.
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