New computerized driving test is introduced to foil would-be cheats

The written part of the Polish driving test will change its form as of July 1 this year. Applicants will have to face a custom-made computerized examination, instead of the old multiple choice questions. The computer will select, at random, some 20 questions from a database and display them individually to the applicant. As Jerzy Folga, deputy director of the Automobile Transport Department of the Transportation Ministry, explains, the computers and the necessary software are already geared up for the new users. Folga went on, "This procedure will allow for an objective evaluation of the candidates, and will rule out the use of standard test papers by those intending to cheat." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) M.T.K.