Coming to a bike after driving a car
The Rider Knowledge Test is set and run by Transport for NSW, and it is not the car test with a bike on the front of it. Two whole subjects on this page have no car equivalent: Bike Specific, with 92 questions, and Rider Safety, with 68. Lane position, filtering rules, protective gear, braking on two wheels, what you may carry: none of that sits in a car learner's reading. If you already hold a car licence the signs and intersection rules will feel familiar and the bike material will not, so that is where your study time belongs. Everything here is practice, so you walk in having already met the kind of question a rider is asked.
Your first hour here
Do not start by reading. Start by finding out what you do not know. Sit one practice test cold, take the two or three subjects it catches you on, and work those before you touch anything else.
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Open Practice Test 1 with no study
One sitting of 45 questions, and it shows you which subjects are costing you marks.
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Take the bike subjects first
Bike Specific and Rider Safety have no car equivalent, so start there if you are coming off a car licence.
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Work the practice tests in order
Each one is a fresh mix of 45 questions, so a new test tells you more than a re-run.
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Keep the mocks for the end
A mock is the full-length rehearsal, so it only means something once the subjects hold.
What is on this page
The practice tests and the mock tests are on this page. There are 13 practice tests of 45 questions each, 585 questions across the whole set, and 8 mock tests of 45 questions each, 360 in total. The 12 topic sets sit on their own page at Rider topic practice, because a topic set does a different job. A practice test asks 45 mixed questions and tells you where you stand. A topic set takes one subject end to end so you can fix it. A mock is the dress rehearsal, sat in one unbroken run, and it belongs at the end. Nothing here is locked behind an account and there is no cap on re-sits, so you can keep cycling until your results come back clean. If you have not sat anything yet, open Practice Test 1 below and let the result choose your first subject for you.
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 10
Practice Test 11
Practice Test 12
Practice Test 13
Practice Test 2
Practice Test 3
Practice Test 4
Practice Test 5
Practice Test 6
Practice Test 7
Practice Test 8
Practice Test 9
Mock Test 1
Mock Test 2
Mock Test 3
Mock Test 4
Mock Test 5
Mock Test 6
Mock Test 7
Mock Test 8
Topic sets
One subject from beginning to end, on the motorbike topic practice page.
Practice tests
A fresh mix of 45 questions that shows you where you stand.
Mock tests
Full-length rehearsal, sat in one go, kept for the end.
The three biggest subjects on a bike
Bike Specific is the largest set here at 92 questions, and it is the one a car driver has never read. It covers the rules that only apply on two wheels. Intersections comes next at 84 questions, and although a car learner has met those rules, a rider meets them differently: you are narrower, harder to see, and there is no metal around you when a driver turns across your line. Rider Safety follows at 68 questions, covering gear, visibility and holding a safe position in traffic. Work those three in that order and you have covered the bulk of the reading. The remaining nine subjects are shorter, and the full list with every count sits on the motorbike topic practice page.
Knowing when to book
Booking is a judgement call, and your last two mock tests are what it should rest on. The progress figure here counts only the answers you give here, so read it as a training gauge and nothing more. When both of those mocks come back clear, with nothing you guessed at, you have rehearsed the full-length run properly. If one subject keeps catching you, go back to that topic set before you book rather than sitting another mock and hoping. Two steady, clean runs beat one lucky high score every time.
What comes after the knowledge test
Passing the knowledge step is the first of several stages on the way to a rider licence, and Transport for NSW sets each one, so check the current steps with them before you fix any dates. Alongside the sets here, read the rider study material the authority publishes and work it next to the practice: read a section, sit the matching topic set, and the gaps show up while you still have time to close them. Spotting hazards is a separate skill from answering rule questions, and this site's hazard clips are at this site's hazard clips. Premium practice sits beside the free sets for riders who want more clip work, and the free sets stay fully open either way.
If you will ride outside NSW
These questions follow NSW road rules. The rider knowledge test is run by each state's own authority: TMR in Queensland, VicRoads in Victoria, the Department for Infrastructure and Transport in South Australia, the Department of Transport in Western Australia and the MVR in the Northern Territory. If you will ride in the Northern Territory, the local detail is at our Northern Territory page.
Official sources
The rules on this page follow the official requirements published by Transport for NSW. Always confirm current rules and fees with the authority before you book.