Car theory test: practice questions

Try three questions

Three questions from the United Kingdom bank, as you'll see them in the app.

1. What effect does higher speed have on your overall stopping distance?

   1. None; stopping distance depends only on tyre grip
   2. It increases both your thinking distance and your braking distance
   3. It only increases your thinking distance
   4. It only increases your braking distance
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   Answer: It increases both your thinking distance and your braking distance

   The Highway Code's stopping distance guidance, which underlies Rule 126's separation advice, shows that both thinking distance and braking distance increase as speed increases.

2. If your vehicle breaks down on a motorway with a hard shoulder, what should you try to do first?

   1. Stay in your lane and put hazard lights on
   2. Move into the nearest emergency area or hard shoulder
   3. Reverse to the previous junction, as a general point, for the most part
   4. Wait in the car with your seatbelt off
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   Answer: Move into the nearest emergency area or hard shoulder

   Rule 277 advises pulling onto the hard shoulder or into an emergency area, stopping as far left as possible, and switching on hazard lights.

3. Why does the Highway Code warn that you could still be over the limit the morning after drinking?

   1. Alcohol is fully eliminated from the body within one hour
   2. It can take many hours for alcohol to leave your system, depending on how much was consumed
   3. Sleeping removes all alcohol from the bloodstream instantly
   4. Only spirits cause a morning-after effect
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   Answer: It can take many hours for alcohol to leave your system, depending on how much was consumed

   Rule 95's guidance warns that alcohol can remain in your system well into the next day, so you could still be unfit or over the limit the morning after drinking.

Where the questions come from

Written from the published rules · The Highway Code (DVSA). See every official source

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