Isle of Skye driving test centre

The mix here is more balanced than anywhere else on Skye. Forty-three per cent of the distance is at 30 mph, 31 per cent at 60, 16 per cent at 20 and 11 per cent at 40, so all four limits get a proper share and the drive keeps changing character. Settling to each new limit before the sign rather than after it is the thing to practise, and the 60 sections are where examiners look for real progress rather than a nervous 45.

The junction furniture is thin: four give-way junctions and one mini-roundabout across 39.6 kilometres, with no traffic signals at all, no zebra or signalled crossings, no traffic calming and no level crossings. Two roundabouts are named — Slighe Georgiana and Rathad a' Ghlinne — and a 6.5 kilometre loop takes in both of them. The other four loops have none, so most of the time you are judging priority for yourself from what you can see.

The turning is even and moderate: a 10.4 kilometre loop asks for eight right turns and eight left, and the rest sit between four and six of each. Two loops name no street at all, which tells you how much of their length runs between junctions rather than through them.

Waterloo Road, Scullamus Road, Pàirc an Aoil, A' Phàirce Dhubh, Slighe Georgiana and Rathad a' Ghlinne carry the driving. There is one school in the area and no dual carriageway.