Victoria Learners Practice Test

The two VicRoads tests, and where each one sits

A Victoria learner sits two tests set by VicRoads. First the knowledge test, which earns your learner permit. Then the hazard perception test, which must be completed before you can take the drive test. The practical drive test comes last, once you hold the permit and have logged your supervised hours. VicRoads sets the question count, the pass mark and the fee for Victoria and publishes them on its own licence-test pages. The hazard perception test can be sat online or in person, and both tests are booked through the VicRoads customer portal. This page covers the part you control: what each stage asks of you, and free practice sets you can repeat as often as you like before you book.

The learner permit test and the Road to Solo Driving handbook

The Victoria learner knowledge test checks that you understand road rules, traffic signs and safe-driving judgement before you drive supervised. You book it and sit it through the VicRoads customer portal, choosing a service centre and a time online rather than walking in blind. The study document is the Road to Solo Driving handbook, which covers every rule the test can draw on. On the day, bring the identity documents VicRoads asks for when you book. The test covers give-way rules, speed and signage, drink and drug-driving law, and the responses a learner is expected to make in traffic. VicRoads sets the question count, the pass mark and the fee for Victoria, and publishes them beside the booking steps on its licence-test page. Read one chapter of the handbook, then sit the matching topic set while it is fresh. That pairing is what turns reading into recall, and recall is what the test actually measures. What you can control is readiness: work through the road rules until you can answer them without hesitating, because the knowledge test rewards recognition rather than guessing. The full learner road, in order, is set out at free online learners driving test.

Hazard perception, before the VicRoads drive test

The hazard perception test must be completed before you can take the VicRoads drive test, so it is the last theory step of your learner period. You need a current Victorian learner permit to sit it, and VicRoads now lets you take it online or in person. It asks you to react to road scenes as a driver would, which rewards timing and judgement rather than memorisation. VicRoads sets how the test runs here, including its scoring and its fee, and publishes both on its hazard perception page. To build the instinct it measures, practise the clips on this site at practise the hazard perception clips and rehearse your responses as often as you like. Treat each clip as a live decision: watch the scene develop, decide when a hazard becomes a real risk, respond, then review what you missed. Nothing here is the actual test footage. Practise the habit on these clips and expect different scenes on the day.

Free practice sets for every Victorian learner

Every practice set on this site is free: car, motorbike and truck. Use them in order. Take one practice test cold to find your weak subjects, drill two topic sets a day on those subjects, then run mock tests until the result is consistently clear. To drill one subject at a time, open car practice, motorbike practice or truck practice, and the practice tests and mock tests start straight from the cards below.

The order that fixes weak subjects

Start with Practice Test 1 (45 questions) cold, with no study first, so you can see exactly which subjects trip you up. Then drill your two weakest topic sets by name until they come back clean. Of the twelve car topic sets, General Knowledge (82 questions), Intersections (54) and Traffic Signs (51) are the three largest. Once those are solid, sit Mock Test 1 under test conditions, in one unbroken sitting with nothing looked up, to rehearse the real pressure. Riders follow the same order at motorbike learners page, and heavy-vehicle candidates at truck learners page.

From learner permit to a full Victorian licence

Victoria runs a graduated licence system, and the theory tests are only the first rungs. Each stage carries a minimum age, a logged-hours requirement and its own conditions, and VicRoads publishes all of them on its licence pages. Read them there before you plan dates, because they change and they differ from other states.

1. 1

   Learner permit

   Pass the VIC knowledge test, then drive supervised. VicRoads sets the minimum age and the logged-hours requirement.

2. 2

   Hazard perception test

   Complete the hazard perception test before you book the drive test. You need a current Victorian learner permit to sit it.

3. 3

   P1 probationary

   Pass the VicRoads drive test to move from learner to your first probationary licence, with the display-plate and passenger conditions VicRoads sets.

4. 4

   P2 probationary

   Progress from P1 after the period VicRoads requires, with fewer restrictions as you build experience.

5. 5

   Full licence

   Complete the probationary period VicRoads sets to reach an unrestricted Victorian licence.

Why NSW-based practice still works in Victoria

The question bank on this site is built on the NSW Driver Knowledge Test, published by Transport for NSW. Australian road rules are largely national: give-way order, speed, signage and safe-driving principles carry across state lines, so the practice transfers well to Victoria. What it cannot give you is Victoria's own test, its wording, its pass rule or its fee. VicRoads sets all of those and publishes them on its licence-test page, so read them there before you book. Use the sets to build fast, confident recall of the rules, and treat VicRoads as the authority for the day itself. Learners in the NT should begin at Northern Territory learners practice test.

Official sources

The rules on this page follow the official requirements published by VicRoads; NSW Driver Knowledge Test, published by Transport for NSW. Always confirm current rules and fees with the authority before you book.