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Chris Spensted

Chris Bensted is a theory test specialist, driving instructor trainer, and founder of Theory Test Explained who appears regularly on The Instructor Podcast as an industry voice for driving instructors.

Jun 30, 2026

2:42
example that we can start with.
2:45
And I think it's the fact that if I talk to, talk to instructors, very often it's, oh, I, I do theory.
2:53
You know, we, we sit there and we go through road signs or we, we read the highway code or, you know, we do a revision question and we gotta remember the questions are for revision, not for learning, but they can always prompt learning, like all good questions.
3:09
So it tends to be very much, what is this? You know, what are those lines? What's that sign? Whereas the next question, the one that we want to get people to is why is that sign there? Because they are, I like the phrase gravestones of someone else's mistakes.
3:30
Slightly morbid, but you know, you get the point of, you know, someone's taking that corner a bit quick.
3:36
and it's gone horribly wrong, let's stick a sign in, and then we'll tell everyone else there's a danger.
3:41
They're the wet paint signs of the road.

9 MINS LATER

12:19
So we're bringing more people in like that.

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