Learning your points
Points are the places a passenger might ask to go: hotels, hospitals, theatres, stations, clubs, courts, squares and streets. Alongside the runs, they're half of what you're examined on.
TfL's official points list
Since 10 February 2025, examiners can only ask you about places on TfL's official points list. That turned an open-ended task into a fixed one you can plan around.
- The list has more than 6,000 points inside the six-mile radius.
- TfL updates it every quarter (February, May, August and November). New points are highlighted for one edition, so check each new list for additions.
- Questions can be very specific, for example a particular entrance to a station or the A&E drop-off at a hospital, so learn exactly where you'd set down, not just the building.
Quartering: points around each run
For every Blue Book run you learn the area within roughly a quarter of a mile of its start and its finish. Students call this "quartering". Over 320 runs those circles overlap until they cover the whole six-mile radius, which is how the points and the map join up in your head.
How to learn them
- See them. Visit points on your runs and note exactly where you'd stop: which street, which side, which entrance.
- Test yourself, little and often. Short daily recall beats long re-reading. Space your reviews out and spend more time on the points you keep getting wrong.
- Link points to runs. Learning a point as "just off the start of run 12" is much easier to recall than learning it on its own.
- Keep up with the updates. Each quarterly edition can add points you'll be asked about soon after.
Points in KnowLDN
The Points page has over 7,000 places within a quarter mile of every Blue Book run's start and finish. Each run's page lists the points round both its ends. Collect them as you learn them, with your own notes (typed or spoken), and they come back in your daily review: find it on the map, or name the street it's on. Points training drills them in short rounds: name them from photos, drop a pin where they are, match them to their streets and runs, and race the clock in a Blitz. Make pointing lists to work through an area, and in Drive, take jobs: a passenger asks for a point and you drive them there.
KnowLDN's points come from OpenStreetMap, so they're not TfL's official list. Check against the official PDF, the definitive list. KnowLDN is independent and not affiliated with TfL.
Start with the runs
Points make most sense once you know the runs they sit on.