Here we go, been driving 5 years and am fairly confident but at the same time cautious and try and keep aware of the prevailing conditions and environment.
1) General awareness/anticipation - 8. Check my mirrors often, always aware of what is approaching behind me. Always give other drivers plenty of space and wont move into the path of a car that';s approaching at higher speed.
2) Parking ability - 9. I spent a year parking a mondeo on a packed street in London and never caused myself or others any damage.
3) Brakes/Clutch control - nice and smooth or bucking bronco? - 8 - Practicing clutch control on weekends with my dad years before my driving test helped, as did learning in a variety of vehicles. I'd like to think I'm nice and smooth when I want to be (which is most of the time).
4) How patient and courteous are you to other road users? 5 - I have all the time in the world for those driving sensibly and making reasonable progress. I have been known however to flash my lights at people who sit at 45mph on a long straight A road in good conditions to let them know my annoyance. I also get annoyed on motorways with people sat in the overtaking lanes when the inside is clear. However, despite getting annoyed the worse i'd do is flash my lights a couple of times, I'd never cut them up or do anything that could endanger either of us.
5) What is your knowledge of the Highway Code? 7. Althoughb not perfect I know a fair bit that I'd say most of my peers don't seem to, such as how to use a motorway properly, that regularly spaced street lights implies a 30mph speed limit unless otherwise signed, how to use roundabouts etc etc.
6) High speed control of your car in dry conditions 8 Most of my driving ability I'd say comes from the awareness and generally pretty sensible common sense approach to driving. My actual driving skills are fine for the road even when making progress but I'm sure I;d not be fantastic on a race track. I make rapid progress on main and A roads and know what myself and my can can do on long sweeting bends and straights, but I always drop my speed for corners and don't really push it as much as I maybe could. I'me quite happy bombing along motorways and main roads at speeds I'd rather not mention and really don;t think this is a problem if the conditions are right and the roads empty.
7) " wet/icy conditions 6 - Similar to the above really. I can drive comfortably and safely in any conditions. I recently did a 200 mile roundtrip on the night a few weeks back where it was snowing and freezing and a few roads weren't gritted. Adjusted my driving to the conditions and didn't have a single problem. So again, I'm sure I'd not last long if I were really pushing it, I am quite capable of driving "to the conditions" and getting to my destination in one peice without putting myself or others at risk.
8) Your ability to correct your car when out of shape 4. It's not really a situation sI've ever had to deal with. In 5 years of driving there has only been a couple of time where I've felt my car begin to loose grip and although I recovered fine from both of those, I wouldn't be confident of doing it on every occasion. This is an area I need to improve. I was hoping to find a large empty space to practice in the ice and snow a few weeks ago and didn't get round to it. Something like a skid pan session would be of use to me. My point of view is that generally if you are smooth and dont make any sudden twitchy moves in bad conditions then you won't have many problems in the first place, for instance braking in plenty of time... I can only ever recall the ABS cutting in while I;ve been driving a handful of time in 5 years, and that's always been due to comeone entering my path or something rather than me now slowing enough for a corner or junction.