Thread: Was a bit of a worry how many failed the test...

Im sure this is common to see the odd person fail the first test, but when I attended my safety course, there were two people attending to retake their test after previously already failing it twice!
I do agree there is the odd question that appears designed to trick you or in some cases the safest answer is not always the correct one. The key is to read the question carefully and understand the context of what its talking about.
However, most of the questions are pretty common sense from what I can make, even if I had not picked up an arms code and read it, I think I would have been able to still pass.
I think about 3 people had to retake their test again at the end, the 2 people that had previously failed ended up passing but still managed to get the odd wrong answer.
I shouldnt be too judgemental, but when I was reading the arms code, i got the impression that if you failed the test both times that they would basically question your suitability as a "fit and proper person" to own firearms at all.

I expect the 3 that failed the test the first time likely would have passed on the second round, I heard the instructor telling them that they were common questions that people would get wrong. He was pretty good to them and explained the reasoning on why the answer was incorrect.

Im guessing many had not bothered to even read an arms code or thought they were going to learn everything on the day of the course perhaps before taking the test?