Ah Ha! Well there is no such thing as a major fault when it comes to how your driving test is scored.
Most instructors will have some from of conversation with a pupil where the question pops up, 'would that be a major?' What all learners need to wrap their heads around is that there are 3 different levels of mistake as far as the assessment of your driving goes. They are:
Minor Faults
Serious Faults
Dangerous Faults
The way that works is actually dead simple. Avoid Serious and Dangerous Faults like the plague. One of either and that's you with a fail on your test. These are, as you might expect, faults of a nature that you put yourself or another road user in an unsafe position with the behaviour you have shown.
It's the Minor Faults that provide the area in which you can work. You have variations on this theme and they are as follows:
More than 15 Minor Faults will turn into a Serious Fault and a FAIL.
An Habitual Fault is a little more nuanced. This relates to when the driver makes enough faults of the same type repeatedly. Depending on the error this can be as low as 3 or 4 of the same mistake. (Most commonly this can happen with mirror and observation, as an example.) An Habitual Fault can then change to a Serious Fault and a Fail.
There's one last thing to explain too and that is in relation to Dangerous Faults and what constitutes one.
Simple explanation is that, if your examiner takes control of the car for the safety of you, the car, themselves or other road users. Also, it can be defined as, if they give you a solid verbal command or instruction to alter your course of action that would constitute grounds for marking a serious fault.
Glad we cleared that up and hope that demystifies the subject for you or your learner driver.
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