Blog for African License

This post is reblog of an iDRIVE.co.za article. African Licence is the best place for learner students to study and practice for their learner’s licence test, but we support iDRIVE.co.za’s initiative to link qualified instructors with students. 

Cape Town, South Africa.

“In proposed amendments to the National Road Traffic Act getting your drivers license, which already is a stressful and time consuming process, will take up to 12 months longer. New technology developed by iDRIVE.co.za now simplifies the process, enabling you to pass your license before the laws change.

After years of research and testing the new system is designed to provide learner drivers with all the training, resources and qualified driving instructors required to become a licensed driver.

With over 100 verified instructors, extensively covering the Western Cape, Gauteng and more recently Limpopo, iDRIVE.co.za claims to be the biggest virtual driving school in South Africa. “I am amazed by the 1000’s of learner drivers using the service every week,” says Rafiq Phillips, founder of iDRIVE.co.za “Learner drivers are sending hundreds of SMS and email messages directly to the driving schools. Knowing that we only connect them with qualified driving instructors ensures that the education and training they receive will increase the chances of them passing the first time, alleviating the backlog at testing stations.: According to Phillips it doesn’t end there though. “The system has been designed to scale and cater for any driving instructor anywhere in South Africa. I believe that road safety will be positively impacted by all that use our new and improved system - making the road safer for all South Africans. No matter when or how the legislation changes we’ll always strive to assist learners in passing their drivers licenses with the right help they can be sure of.”

According to World Wide Worx’s study about Internet Access in SA 2012, “6,02-million people have access to the internet on computer, laptop and tablet.” This is the audience iDRIVE.co.za has been designed for.

Ben Grobler, owner of My Driving School and one of the first members of iDRIVE.co.za agrees , “ln my experience clients have over the past few years become more e-inclined. This includes internet usage, Facebook, smartphone apps etc. We get a lot of clients from the internet and it escalates every year. iDRIVE.co.za has a good visibility on Google which is to my driving school’s advantage. I receive contacts from iDRIVE.co.za on a daily basis.”

Thanks to award-winning technological and entrepreneurial innovation iDRIVE.co.za has helped countless driving instructors to grow their businesses while providing help to thousands of driver’s on South Africa’s roads today.”

Creative Colibri

This is the first in a series of three posts on how to study to pass your exam the first time you try. 

Most students start studying for their exams with some knowledge of how to drive on a road, what different signs, signals and road markings mean, and what the rules of the road are. At the same time, these same students don’t know how that knowledge fits in versus what is required to pass the exam, and therefore study everything rather than just the areas they need to focus on.

We believe that the best way to study is to always focus on the weak areas - this will enable you to improve the fastest with the least amount of effort. 

Step 1: Take a test that represent the full exam curriculum

The first thing you should do when you start studying for your exam is to take a mock test that represent the full curriculum. This mock test should have at least 50 questions split between the different sections of the exam curriculum. The exact curriculum will vary by exam, so the key thing is to take a test that has balanced set of questions from the entire exam curriculum.

Creative Colibri sites have multiple mock tests that represent the full exam curriculum and that are great examples of how the real exam will look and feel. The examples below are from two of our sites: practising for a learner’s licence test with African Licence in South Africa and practicing for a theory test with Take The Theory in the UK. 

Step 2: Score the test and analyse the results to understand where you need to focus

Once you have completed the first test, score it and analyse the results. What’s particularly important is to identify the areas areas where you have done well versus where you need to improve. In practice that means summing up your results for each chapter of the learner’s licence curriculum and scoring the chapters individually. That way you can understand which chapters you can focus on. 

Doing this manually, can be cumbersome. The good news is that our Brush-Up feature does this work for you – take a test and see where you need to study further to pass your exam! The below examples are from African Licence. 

In Analyse, you can see which areas are strong and which you need to improve. 

In Review, you can check out the questions you got wrong and read up on the right answers.

In Focus, we give you an overview of the chapters you need to continue to focus on to pass the exam first time.

Now get back to studying and take your first test - best of luck!

First posted: Johannesburg, 24 April 2012
Latest version: London, 6 November 2012 

Creative Colibri

You are about to embark on a long study for your exam and you are getting nervous - you know some of the curriculum well, some of it less so, and a few parts are quite alien. How do you study to both understand the curriculum and are able to apply it successfully in the exam? 

Creative Colibri, African Licence and Take The Theory’s parent company, recommends following its scientifically proven Virtuous Circle of Study:

Step A: Begin with an understanding of your strengths & development areas
Step B: Read the curriculum starting with where you need most development
Step C: Test your comprehension after this study and then repeat the steps again until you are ready for the exam.

In a series of three blog posts, Creative Colibri will take you through the Virtuous Circle of Study. Stay tuned for next week’s post, which focuses on Step A: Begin with an understanding of your strengths and development areas. 

Cape Town, 9 April 2012
African Licence

African Licence supports good education initiatives, which includes the Fatal Moves programme launched in KwaZulu-Natal last August with good response from learner’s licence students. 

The objective of Fatal Moves is to illustrate to learner’s licence students and drivers the dangers of poor driving. The programme achieves this by requiring all passing KwaZulu-Natal learner’s licence students a 15-minute educational video on how a set of 14 bad driving behaviours may make the difference between living and dying on South African Roads. 

Ismail Amod and his company Neo Africa, who started the Fatal Moves programme, researched the common causes of serious accidents, collected strong, graphic imagery from accidents, and used this to show how bad driving can change the life of drivers, their friends and families.

The 14 ‘fatal moves’ include: The impact of alcohol and drugs on driving; Aggressive driving, e.g. tailgating or hogging the fast lane; Overloading the vehicle; Speeding; Not using a seatbelt; and many more. Please refer to the Fatal Moves website for the full list of 14 Fatal Moves. 

In addition to reading the Fatal Moves website, the best way to commit to safer driving is to join Imperial on their I-PLEDGE initiative. With I-PLEDGE, you will personally commit to one safer driving behaviour and ensure you always act responsibly to create safer roads for everyone in South Africa.