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Coldicott. "Centres are told not to open the papers till they get into the exam room, and if an inspector arrived and found the papers had been opened early, it would call into question the company's operations. It's an extremely big risk." Some companies guarantee a CPC pass or offer a refund for failure. "It makes me wonder how a pass in five days can be guaranteed, when we give 72 hours of tuition to go through the RSA syllabus and still can't guarantee a pass," says BRS Midlands driver training centre manager Dave Tarbuck. Pargeter asks: "How can they offer a money-back guarantee when they don't know who the student is going to be? The average national CPC pass rate is about 65%, which means they should be refunding at least 20% of candidates."
About 100 RSA inspectors, who also monitor other nontransport RSA exams, are re sponsible for checking 220 training centres a year, which together put 45,000 candidates in for the exam every year. If the RSA finds a centre guilty of fiddling papers, its only recourse is to withdraw its approval from the training company, which is then banned from operating as an exam centre.
The RSA says it is considering some of the suggestions to tighten-up exam policing made at a conference organised by training company Friendberry. A DTp spokesman says that policing the CPC system is usually left up lo the RSA, and DTp intervention would depend on the nature of the offence. The RSA receives an average of one allegation a year of training centres altering papers, but it did not know if approval had been withdrawn from any centre in the past five years.