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A DRIVING examiner claims he was sacked because he didn’t fail enough candidates on their tests. Jim Kerr claims he was singled out by bosses because his pass rate was “too high”. The 61-year-old was so incensed when he was finally sacked by Driving Standards Agency bosses earlier this month that he launched his own leaflet protest. He said: “I have worked as a driving examiner for 23 years and underwent regular spot checks for quality control purposes. “My decision to pass or fail was never called into question.” Jim’s problems started when the DSA introduced a “chi-square” system of grading to collect pass rates for examiners. The mathematical formula compares an individual examiner’s performance against his colleagues at a given test centre. Jim, who worked at Glasgow’s Shieldhall Test Centre, said: “I was called in last March and told that, because my pass rate was higher than my colleagues’, I must be doing things wrong – and had to fail more people. “I was shocked. I was probably the most experienced examiner at Shieldhall and possibly the only one not to have a disagreed decision in the quality control process.” More