Expected outcome / competence
Ability to control the vehicle accurately when parking on the road or into a parking bay. Effective all round observation throughout the manoeuvre showing consideration to other road users.
Assessment criteria (example = control)
Driving fault:
- Re-positioning required to correct a loss of control or accuracy
Serious fault:
- Excessive re-positioning to correct complete misjudgement and /or significant loss of control
- Final parking position parking – outside the bay
Dangerous fault:
- Any situation brought about by the above loss of control that resulted in actual danger to the examiner, candidate, the general public or property
Other faults:
Control:
- poor coordination of controls
- scrubbing/brushing the kerb
- unnecessary shunting backwards and forwards
- getting too close to the object car
- mounting the pavement
- turning the steering wheel the wrong way
- parking too far from the kerb
- stalling
- not completing within two car lengths
- finishing at an acute angle to the kerb
Car Park:
- poor coordination of controls
- ending up straddling two bays
- unnecessary shunting forwards and backwards
- turning the steering wheel the wrong way
- stalling
Observation:
- no blind spot checks
- relying too much or entirely on the mirrors
- ineffective observation
- looking but not reacting to other vehicles or pedestrians
- waiting too long for other users in the car park.
The above is taken from The Driving Examiners Manual.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/guidance-for-driving-examiners-carrying-out-driving-tests-dt1
Where appropriate it has been reformatted and edited so it only refers to the driving of ordinary cars (class b).