What DIT's knowledge test asks of you
The South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) runs the knowledge test you sit to get a learner's permit in South Australia. It checks that you know the state's road rules, signs and safe-driving basics before you first drive on the road. DIT sets the question count, the pass mark and the fee, and publishes them beside the booking steps on its own licence-test page, so read them there before you book. What this page gives you is the practice: free sets, including full-length 45-question practice tests and mocks sat under test conditions. Start with one cold run, then drill what it exposes.
Free South Australian practice by licence class
Three kinds of set do three different jobs. Topic sets drill one subject until it sticks. Practice tests are full-length 45-question sets, so pace and format stop being a surprise. Mock tests run under test conditions to show whether you are ready. Car, motorbike and heavy-vehicle candidates each have their own bank on this site. Riders start at motorbike practice tests, and heavy-vehicle candidates at truck licence practice and the heavy-vehicle ladder. Starting out? The learner path, stage by stage, is at the learner test explained.
Car
Topic sets to drill subjects, full-length practice tests, and mocks under test conditions.
Motorbike
Rider-focused topic sets, full-length practice tests and mocks.
Truck
Heavy-vehicle topic sets, practice tests and mocks — see the truck page for the licence ladder.
A mock first, then the subjects it exposes
South Australia gives you two practical roads at the end, the Vehicle On Road Test or assessment under CBT&A, but the written stage is the same either way. Start at the hard end: sit a mock before you have earned it, and let the result pick your subjects.
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Sit a mock first and let it sting
A full 45-question mock before any study. It is an uncomfortable read and the fastest honest one you will get.
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Take the biggest subjects in order
Work down by size: General Knowledge (82), then Intersections (54), then Traffic Signs (51). Two sets a day is enough.
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Pair each set with its handbook chapter
Read the matching chapter of the South Australian Driver's Handbook straight after the set, while you still remember what you got wrong.
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Re-sit the mock, then book through mySA GOV
When the same mock comes back clean, book your knowledge test through mySA GOV or a Service SA centre.
The hazard perception test, and where it sits
You need to pass the hazard perception test to move from your learner's permit to a P1 provisional licence, and you can complete it before you pass the practical driving assessment. You can sit it online or in person at a Service SA centre. It tests the skill of spotting and responding to a developing risk, using short driving clips rather than written questions. A minimum learner period applies before you can sit it, and the South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) sets that period along with the scoring and the fee, publishing all three on its own hazard perception page. The clip practice on this site is at hazard perception clip practice, where free clips get you used to the format and the premium practice at premium practice adds more scenarios. Start the hazard work early: reading the road in motion is a different skill from recalling a rule, and it takes repetition to get comfortable. These are practice clips, not test footage; their job is to train your timing, not to show you the scenes you will meet.
What the practice bank is
The bank on this site is built on the NSW Driver Knowledge Test, published by Transport for NSW. Australian road rules are largely national, so the practice transfers well across the country: signs, give-way order, speed and safe-driving basics are the same wherever you learn, and so is the judgement behind them. What differs is the paperwork around the test. The South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) sets this state's test, its wording, its pass rule and its fee, and publishes all of it on its own licence-test page. Use the practice to build the knowledge, then read DIT's pages for the South Australian detail before you book. For the Northern Territory, start at /northern-territory instead. DIT's licence-test page holds South Australia's question count, pass mark and fee. The South Australian Driver's Handbook holds the rules the questions are drawn from. Read both before you book and the paperwork stops being a worry.
What the SA test covers
A learner is asked about the everyday road knowledge you need to drive safely in South Australia: traffic signs and signals, who has right of way at intersections, speed limits, the effects of alcohol and drugs, fatigue, and sharing the road with pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. Each of those areas lines up with a topic set here, among them Traffic Signs, Intersections, Traffic Lights and Lanes, Negligent Driving and Pedestrians, so you can drill the exact subject you are shaky on rather than re-sitting whole tests. The study document is the South Australian Driver's Handbook, published by the South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT); read it alongside the practice rather than instead of it. One chapter, then the matching topic set, is the pairing that turns reading into recall. The questions that catch people out are rarely the exotic ones; they are the everyday give-way scenes you think you already know, so give those the extra run. If you want the bigger picture of how the learner stage fits together, see the learner test explained.
Booking and test day in South Australia
Book your SA knowledge test through mySA GOV or at a Service SA centre. Bring the identity documents the South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) lists for your appointment. The exact documents, the fee and any age or eligibility rules are set and published by DIT, so check its licence-test page before you go. Turn up early, bring your confirmation, and have your practice behind you so the test is the easy part.
Official sources
The rules on this page follow the official requirements published by NSW Driver Knowledge Test (Transport for NSW); DIT licence-test page. Always confirm current rules and fees with the authority before you book.