A friend offers you the questions they memorised from their own written test, believing it guarantees a pass. What is wrong with relying on that alone?

Why A is correct

Written tests draw from a pool rather than repeating one fixed paper, so recalled questions are a sample at best and a false confidence at worst. The deeper issue concerns what the examination is for: it stands in for whether somebody understands these rules well enough to apply them at speed with a child near the kerb. A driver who has memorised twelve answers has nothing available for the thirteenth situation, because no circulated list covers it. Working through the manual is slower and considerably more reliable.

Why the other options are wrong

B. Nothing — the same answer key repeats on every form

Fixed repetition would turn any published question pool into a complete answer sheet. Pools exist precisely so nobody can pass on recall alone. Recalled questions are usually approximations by the time they are retold second-hand, so what was memorised is frequently not even what was asked.

C. Only the answer choices change, never the wording of the questions

Both wording and answer sets vary between forms, and identical questions are frequently rephrased. Recall fails the moment the phrasing differs from what was rehearsed.

D. Memorised answers are accepted, though they attract an extra fee

Nobody pays extra for having studied the short way round, and memorising a list attracts no penalty beyond its own uselessness. Fees follow a test result rather than the method used to prepare, so nothing warns the driver that anything went wrong until long afterwards.

On the road

One applicant memorised a list and met questions it did not include. Another worked through the manual once, understood the reasoning behind each rule, and could answer whatever appeared in whatever form it was asked. Six months later that difference has nothing to do with test scores and everything to do with what either driver does when a child steps off the kerb.

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