CBR Practical Exam Result Form: What “Kijkgedrag” Means

The CBR result form tells you which assessment areas need attention. It usually cannot, on its own, tell you exactly which right turn, lane change or junction caused the problem. That is why a remark such as kijkgedrag may feel vague even when the examiner explained your result.

CBR gives you the result after the drive and explains what needs improvement. The official explanation of the practical exam also tells candidates to discuss the result form with their instructor. Start with those sources; this DTD article explains the terms in plain English, not a separate CBR grading formula.

What does “kijkgedrag” mean on your CBR result form?

Kijkgedrag means observation behaviour. The useful question is not only whether you looked in a mirror. It is whether you looked at the relevant place, at the right moment, and used the information to drive safely. Looking can be too late to help even when the head movement itself is visible.

Consider three different situations:

• Turning right beside a cycle track: you may have checked behind the car but not seen a cyclist approaching from the opposite direction on a two-way track.
• Changing lanes: the gap was clear when you first checked, but another vehicle moved into it before you steered.
• Pulling away from a parked position: a vehicle or cyclist was approaching from a direction that your observation did not cover.

All three can involve observation, but it would be misleading to assume the same missing shoulder check explains all of them. The exact feedback from your examiner matters more than a generic sequence from the internet.

Other terms you may see in the assessment

• Voorrang verlenen / voor laten gaan: giving the required priority or letting another road user go first in the relevant situation.
• Aangepaste snelheid: choosing a speed appropriate to the road layout, visibility, traffic and conditions — not merely staying below the legal limit.
• Aangepast en besluitvaardig rijden / doorstroming: matching your decisions to the situation. Waiting when a gap is unsafe is different from continuing to wait after the situation has become safe.
• Plaats op de weg: using a suitable position on the road, including around turns, obstacles and other road users.
• Bijzondere verrichtingen: special manoeuvres such as parking and reversing, where vehicle control, observation and consideration for other traffic still matter.

These are plain-English descriptions of driving behaviours, not an official translation of every label on your particular form. For the formal standard, use your result, the examiner’s explanation and CBR Rijprocedure B.

Does one remark mean that a single mistake made you fail?

No public fixed allowance of minor mistakes can be used to calculate your result. The examiner assesses whether you drove safely and independently, considering the circumstances and the seriousness of what happened. Do not infer that every remark represents an automatic failure, or that one category identifies the only cause of the result.

A single situation can involve several assessment areas. For example, approaching a junction too quickly may leave too little time to observe a cyclist and then make the correct priority decision. If your result lists more than one area, that does not necessarily mean several unrelated incidents happened.

What should you ask your instructor after the exam?

Ask for the specific road moment rather than another explanation of the category name. Three questions are usually enough to make the discussion concrete:

1. Where did this happen? Was it a junction, lane change, roundabout exit or special manoeuvre?
2. What did the examiner observe? For instance, was a relevant cyclist missed, was the check made too late, or did the decision no longer match the traffic?
3. What would safe behaviour have looked like there? Ask your instructor to explain the relevant rule or observation requirement using the actual road layout.

Write down the examiner's spoken feedback soon after the test, while you can still recognise the situation. If you cannot remember the exact location, say so rather than filling the gap with a guess. For a more detailed explanation of observation around a manoeuvre, see mirror and shoulder checks; for delays and gap decisions, see hesitation and traffic flow.

What if the report seems to contradict your experience?

You may remember checking a mirror while the feedback says kijkgedrag. Both can be true: the information may not have been current by the time you moved, or the relevant hazard may have been outside the area you checked. Ask your instructor to reconstruct the sequence with you without claiming to know details that neither of you witnessed.

Keep the actual result form and the examiner’s explanation. For the next lesson, choose one road situation from it, ask your instructor to recreate the decision safely, and record what you will do differently before booking another attempt.