Five real DVSA-style multiple-choice questions, free and with no signup, each with expert coaching on why the answer is right or wrong. The official Category C and C+E multiple-choice test is 100 questions in 115 minutes with a pass mark of 85 — our Real Test simulator mirrors those exact conditions.
Drivers' hours and rest breaks, tachographs, daily walkaround checks and defect reporting, air brakes and brake fade, load security, speed limits and vulnerable road users.
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The theory stage has two parts, taken at a DVSA theory test centre. The multiple-choice section is a 100-question paper with a 115-minute time limit. The hazard perception section then plays a series of video clips and scores how early you react to developing hazards. You need to pass both parts.
Drivers hours and tachograph rules appear in almost every paper, and they are where most marks are lost. Learn the figures as pairs and they stick: the 9-hour daily driving limit extendable to 10 hours twice a week, the 4.5 hours of driving before a 45-minute break, the 56-hour week and 90-hour fortnight, and the 11-hour daily rest reducible to 9. Beyond that, expect vehicle loading and weight distribution, braking and stopping distances, walkaround checks and defect reporting, and vehicle-specific safety.
Reading the theory once rarely works. Testing yourself under time pressure does, because it surfaces the gaps you did not know you had. Short, frequent sessions beat one long cram, and reviewing why a wrong answer was wrong matters more than the score itself.
The common mistake is clicking too much or too late. The clips reward reacting as a hazard begins to develop, not once it is obvious and not on a hunch before anything has happened. Practising on video clips rather than reading about them is the only way to build the timing.
Theory comes after your provisional application and D4 medical, and before your practical training and test. We book your theory and CPC tests for you and cover those fees as part of your package, so the only thing you need to do is prepare.
Start with the free practice questions above, and call 01634 907 229 if you want to talk through where theory fits in your timeline.
The theory test is where most people lose time on the way to a licence — not because it is hard, but because it is easy to underestimate and easy to book badly. You cannot take your practical until it is passed, so a failed theory does not just cost the retest fee, it pushes your training dates back too.
Our practice tool is free, needs no signup for the first questions, and explains why each answer is right rather than just marking it. Every question is written by us from the underlying rules — the Highway Code, drivers hours regulations and vehicle safety guidance. They are not real exam questions, because real exam questions are not published by anyone legitimately.
For a lorry or bus licence the theory stage is two separate tests, usually sat in one sitting at a DVSA test centre:
Both must be passed. If you pass one and fail the other you retake only the one you failed, but the whole theory pass expires two years from the date of the first one, and if your practical is not done inside that window you sit it all again.
This is the part people fail, and almost always for the same reason: they click too much. The scoring window opens as a hazard starts to develop and closes when it is fully developed. Click early in that window and you score five. Click late and you score one. Click constantly, hoping to catch it, and the system flags the pattern and gives you zero for that clip.
The technique that works is to watch the clip the way you would watch the road — scanning, not staring — and click once when something changes in a way that would make you lift off the accelerator. A parked car with its indicator on. A pedestrian turning toward the kerb. A cyclist drifting out around a drain. Then click a second time if it develops further. Two deliberate clicks beat twenty hopeful ones.
Across the bank, the topics that catch people out are consistent: drivers hours and tachograph rules, load security and weight distribution, vehicle dimensions and bridge strikes, coupling and uncoupling procedure, and what to do at the scene of an incident. Braking distances and general road procedure come up constantly but are usually the questions people already know.
If you are short on time, revise drivers hours first. It is the single densest topic, it appears repeatedly, and it is the one where guessing does not work.
Driver CPC is the professional qualification every lorry and bus driver holds alongside the licence itself. Part of earning it is a case study paper, sat at the same test centre, where you work through realistic scenarios rather than answering standalone questions. It is not part of the theory test and it has its own pass mark, but people commonly sit both on the same visit.
Short and frequent beats long and occasional. Twenty minutes a day for two weeks will do more than a full weekend the day before. Work through questions rather than reading, because recognition is not the same as recall, and pay attention to the ones you get right by guessing — those are the gaps.
Do the hazard perception practice on a screen and mouse you are comfortable with, and do enough clips that the timing becomes instinctive rather than something you are thinking about in the test centre.
Order of events is medical, then provisional entitlement on your licence, then theory and hazard perception, then Driver CPC case studies, then your training days and the practical tests. We book the theory for you and the fee is inside your course price, so there is nothing to pay at the test centre.
Start practising now, before you have booked anything — it costs nothing and it is the one part of this you can get ahead on. When you are ready to put dates in, call 01634 907 229.
100 multiple choice questions with a pass mark of 85, plus a separate hazard perception test of 19 clips with a pass mark of 67 out of 100.
Two years from the date of the first of the two tests. Your practical must be passed within that window or the theory has to be retaken.
No, and nobody legitimately publishes those. Ours are written from the same source rules the real questions are based on, which is what makes them useful practice.
Yes. Your theory test, hazard perception, Driver CPC case studies, medical and every DVSA practical fee are all inside the course price.