Hazard Perception Test 2024 4+

Good but needs minor adjustments

I like the app and the way it is easy to use and straightforward. It’s a good way to practice for the HPT. However, I think the response timeframe isn’t fully accurate. If you do the practice tests on the South Australian driving website, you don’t get penalised for responding early. In this app however, if you respond too early you get told that your reaction was too late. People who have done the test in real life say that you should respond within plenty of time, but in the app it feels like the timeframe you have to respond is either too short or too late that if done in the real test you might get penalised. There’s really nothing wrong with responding earlier either, because slowing down lets your brain process information faster and easier. So to say that “you must respond within this time window” seems a bit wrong. The whole HPT handbook is about leaving plenty of room, which you can only do by slowing down sooner rather than later. So I guess what I’m trying to say overall is that the real life test will probably be a bit more lenient with responses that come earlier, whereas this app has such a short time window for responses at times that it just feels more annoying than helpful because you spend more time trying to get your response to line up in a 0.5 sec window rather than learning the limits of what is too early or too late.

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thank you for this rich feedback! We will take note of what you mentioned and will provide you an update shortly to make the experience even better and closer to the test.

Cheers,
Pineapple Team

Test mode needs to be reworked

First off id like to thank the creator of this app as it is very handy but when I choose test mode there are 2 problems that occur. One of them is that when I would tap my screen the app wouldn’t register the tap until about a second or 2 later. This is very frustrating as I usually get the question wrong because of this bug. Another thing is when I’m in test mode I would get a question right but when I go to check to results it would say I’m wrong when I clearly clicked when I was supposed to. Please fix this issue. If a fix like this happens it will make the app a million times better. Apart from those 2 issues everything is good and works properly.

(Edited) Thankyou for this app!

I tap exactly where it was and even though the review tells you it’s in that exact spot on the bar, it still says I either missed it or I’m too early, I’m really stressing out rightnow and this app is the only thing that can help for tomorrow’s HPT test. And according to the real test you don’t have to click when overtaking or turning which is annoying as heck. But other than that it’s a pretty good app and showing you what it is in the actual test. Thank you for reading.

EDIT : If you don’t click on anything it will tell you if you clicked on it or not, but if you tap no, the app crashes.

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FINAL EDIT : Thankyou so much for the response, I passed the test thanks to this app. I guess the ‘not being accurate’ part of my review was wrong after all. And yeah overtake and turn right scenes you don’t have to touch anything. Thanks so much! It was worth the $5.99.
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Developer Response ,

Hi, thank you for your review.

Apologise for the bug that was introduced when we launched version 1.62 last week. Thanks to some feedbacks, we have acknowledged the issue and worked on it as soon as possible. The newest version 1.63 is now available and fixes that issue. We have also added additional feedbacks when you touch or don't touch the screen when you should have ... Good luck for the test. FINAL EDIT : Awesome! Glad it was worth the cost and glad you did well at the exam! Thank for the Feedbacks!