DRIVING TEST CHEATS
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The Electric New Paper :
Caught in the act
DRIVING TEST CHEATS
His job: To find people taking theory test
His partner: Takes test for them for $1000
GET some final driving theory test candidates for me and I'll pay you $300 for each one, Ng Thian Lye's friend told him.
By Crystal Chan
02 September 2006
GET some final driving theory test candidates for me and I'll pay you $300 for each one, Ng Thian Lye's friend told him.
Ng, 42, then recommended candidates to his friend, Goh Boon Kwang, 38.
Goh told them he would take the test for them if they paid him $1,000 each.
Ng was offered $300 out of the $1,000 as commission.
But the scam was exposed when the Singapore Safety Driving Centre was alerted to the attempted impersonation.
On 22 Aug, Ng was jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty to possessing another person's identity card, an offence under the National Registration Act.
Assistant public prosecutor Kalidass Murugaiyan told the court that Ng used to work for Goh's father as a delivery driver.
In January last year, Goh told Ng about the scheme.
The final theory test has 50 questions about driving skills. For example, candidates may be asked how to parallel-park a car.
To get a driving licence, candidates have to pass both the basic and final theory tests, and a practical driving test.
The basic theory test assesses candidates' interpretation of road and traffic signs.
Mr Kalidass said investigations revealed that in August last year, Ng approached Tan Beng Wah, 34.
It is not known how Ng knew Tan.
HAD TROUBLE PASSING TEST
Tan contacted his cousin, Teo Cheng Hoe, 36, who had trouble passing the test. It is not known how many times Teo failed the test.
Teo agreed to get Ng's help to pass the test for $1,000 and handed his identity card to his cousin, who in turn gave it to Ng.
Ng then passed the identity card to Goh, who used it to sit for the test at the Singapore Safety Driving Centre in Ang Mo Kio on 19 Aug last year.
Tan and Teo were aware that it was not Ng but another man who would be sitting for the test.
Mr Kalidass said that, unknown to the conspirators, Mr Lim Choon Seng, a senior tester at the driving centre, received a tip-off about the scam at 11pm on 18 Aug, a day before the test.
Mr Lim was told that someone would be taking the final theory test on behalf of a candidate named Teo Cheng Hoe.
Mr Lim informed the centre's chief tester, Mr Goh Yong Hua, and checks showed that Teo had arranged to sit for the test at the driving centre on 19 Aug.
The testers waited for the impersonator to turn up on the day of the test.
At 11.45am, Goh turned up with Teo's identity card and test slip.
He was assigned to a computer work station to take the test, which is conducted on a touch-screen.
After the test, Mr Goh questioned Goh, who admitted that he was an impostor.
Goh, who was arrested on the spot, was found with Teo's identity card and driving test slips belonging to Teo and two other persons.
The New Paper reported last December that Goh had sat for the theory test for two other persons on 21 Jul and 11 Aug last year. It was not known if these were for the basic or final theory tests.
Ng, Tan and Teo were arrested soon after. Goh was jailed four months on 7 Dec, while Tan and Teo were each jailed three months on 17 Jul.
Ng could have been fined up to $10,000 or jailed up to 10 years or both.
Officials from the Singapore Safety Driving Centre were not available for comment yesterday, but lawyers who spoke to The New Paper said that such cases of impersonation are rare.
Mr Kertar Singh, an ex-policeman and a criminal lawyer with 12 years of experience, added that few people would take the risk of getting another person to take the test for them.
'While you can say that people may not look like their NRIC photos, the invigilators are quite alert.
'The invigilators would become suspicious if the candidates look very different from the photo on their identity cards. It's not worth the risk.'
Besides the Singapore Safety Driving Centre, the other driving centres here are Comfort Driving Centre in Ubi and Bukit Batok Driving Centre.
Statistics from the Traffic Police show that of the three driving centres, Bukit Batok has the best pass rate for this particular test.
From Aug last year to July this year, 88.8 per cent of 2,908 first-time candidates at Bukit Batok passed this test.
During the same period, 81 per cent of 2,449 first-time candidates passed the same test at Singapore Safety Driving Centre.
Comfort Driving Centre's pass rate was 74.2 per cent of 3,113 first-time candidates.
Private candidates had a pass rate of 46.4 per cent.
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wad is so diff wiv btt and ftt.
i finished both in 10mins!
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and failed both in 10 mins too!Originally posted by sinicker:wad is so diff wiv btt and ftt.
i finished both in 10mins! -
who Pao Poh sia!Originally posted by hoganrock:The Electric New Paper :
Caught in the act
DRIVING TEST CHEATS
His job: To find people taking theory test
His partner: Takes test for them for $1000
GET some final driving theory test candidates for me and I'll pay you $300 for each one, Ng Thian Lye's friend told him.
By Crystal Chan
02 September 2006
GET some final driving theory test candidates for me and I'll pay you $300 for each one, Ng Thian Lye's friend told him.
Ng, 42, then recommended candidates to his friend, Goh Boon Kwang, 38.
Goh told them he would take the test for them if they paid him $1,000 each.
Ng was offered $300 out of the $1,000 as commission.
But the scam was exposed when the Singapore Safety Driving Centre was alerted to the attempted impersonation.
On 22 Aug, Ng was jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty to possessing another person's identity card, an offence under the National Registration Act.
Assistant public prosecutor Kalidass Murugaiyan told the court that Ng used to work for Goh's father as a delivery driver.
In January last year, Goh told Ng about the scheme.
The final theory test has 50 questions about driving skills. For example, candidates may be asked how to parallel-park a car.
To get a driving licence, candidates have to pass both the basic and final theory tests, and a practical driving test.
The basic theory test assesses candidates' interpretation of road and traffic signs.
Mr Kalidass said investigations revealed that in August last year, Ng approached Tan Beng Wah, 34.
It is not known how Ng knew Tan.
HAD TROUBLE PASSING TEST
Tan contacted his cousin, Teo Cheng Hoe, 36, who had trouble passing the test. It is not known how many times Teo failed the test.
Teo agreed to get Ng's help to pass the test for $1,000 and handed his identity card to his cousin, who in turn gave it to Ng.
Ng then passed the identity card to Goh, who used it to sit for the test at the Singapore Safety Driving Centre in Ang Mo Kio on 19 Aug last year.
Tan and Teo were aware that it was not Ng but another man who would be sitting for the test.
Mr Kalidass said that, unknown to the conspirators, Mr Lim Choon Seng, a senior tester at the driving centre, received a tip-off about the scam at 11pm on 18 Aug, a day before the test.
Mr Lim was told that someone would be taking the final theory test on behalf of a candidate named Teo Cheng Hoe.
Mr Lim informed the centre's chief tester, Mr Goh Yong Hua, and checks showed that Teo had arranged to sit for the test at the driving centre on 19 Aug.
The testers waited for the impersonator to turn up on the day of the test.
At 11.45am, Goh turned up with Teo's identity card and test slip.
He was assigned to a computer work station to take the test, which is conducted on a touch-screen.
After the test, Mr Goh questioned Goh, who admitted that he was an impostor.
Goh, who was arrested on the spot, was found with Teo's identity card and driving test slips belonging to Teo and two other persons.
The New Paper reported last December that Goh had sat for the theory test for two other persons on 21 Jul and 11 Aug last year. It was not known if these were for the basic or final theory tests.
Ng, Tan and Teo were arrested soon after. Goh was jailed four months on 7 Dec, while Tan and Teo were each jailed three months on 17 Jul.
Ng could have been fined up to $10,000 or jailed up to 10 years or both.
Officials from the Singapore Safety Driving Centre were not available for comment yesterday, but lawyers who spoke to The New Paper said that such cases of impersonation are rare.
Mr Kertar Singh, an ex-policeman and a criminal lawyer with 12 years of experience, added that few people would take the risk of getting another person to take the test for them.
'While you can say that people may not look like their NRIC photos, the invigilators are quite alert.
'The invigilators would become suspicious if the candidates look very different from the photo on their identity cards. It's not worth the risk.'
Besides the Singapore Safety Driving Centre, the other driving centres here are Comfort Driving Centre in Ubi and Bukit Batok Driving Centre.
Statistics from the Traffic Police show that of the three driving centres, Bukit Batok has the best pass rate for this particular test.
From Aug last year to July this year, 88.8 per cent of 2,908 first-time candidates at Bukit Batok passed this test.
During the same period, 81 per cent of 2,449 first-time candidates passed the same test at Singapore Safety Driving Centre.
Comfort Driving Centre's pass rate was 74.2 per cent of 3,113 first-time candidates.
Private candidates had a pass rate of 46.4 per cent. 
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so not worth it....
few hundreads $ vs month of jail term
desperate for $$$ ??? -
nowadays take test got that hard meh?
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ya...ya....Originally posted by sinicker:wad is so diff wiv btt and ftt.
i finished both in 10mins!
50/(10x60 seconds) = 0.0834seconds per question
dun even need to read the question right? 
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1000 just for a simple test...not worth it.
if practical test then i may consider -
jialat!maths fail! 600secs/50qn lah..Originally posted by Xcert:ya...ya....
50/(10x60 seconds) = 0.0834seconds per question
dun even need to read the question right?
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Originally posted by Xcert:ya...ya....
50/(10x60 seconds) = 0.0834seconds per question
dun even need to read the question right?
chius maths good. -thumbs up- -
can.Originally posted by fenixfire:jialat!maths fail! 600secs/50qn lah..
12secs per qn, still impossible though..
i went for e-trail test.
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oh ya hor....maths fail....but still 12 seconds?...just read the question gone already....U are the kind who do all the trial questions like 3 times per set?...hardcore mugging...Originally posted by sinicker:can.
i went for e-trail test.
some questions really too easy.