Passing the theory test

How the test works

The theory test takes place on a computer at the officially recognised testing organisation. You get questions from the official catalogue – basic material plus the class-specific part. Each question carries error points, weighted by importance at two, three, four or five points.

For a first class B licence you may have no more than ten error points. However, getting two five-point questions wrong means failing – even though that arithmetically adds up to ten.

You can sit the test in several languages. Talk to us if that would help.

The three most common mistakes

• Only the app, never the classes: learning questions by heart without understanding the rule behind them fails as soon as the wording changes slightly.
• Starting too late: the material needs repetition over several weeks. Three days beforehand is not enough for most people.
• Clicking too fast: especially with multiple correct answers, one is often overlooked. Read every option through to the end.

What actually helps

From what works for our students:

• Twenty minutes every day rather than three hours once at the weekend.
• Mark the questions you got wrong and repeat those specifically instead of running through the whole catalogue again.
• Ask in class as soon as something is unclear – that is what it is there for.
• Save mock tests until the material has settled. Before that they only demotivate.
• Take the video questions seriously: they can only be watched once and often cost unnecessary points.

If it did not work out

After a failed test there is a two-week waiting period. Use it: the test report shows which topic areas went wrong. Work through exactly those instead of learning everything again.

Failing is not a disaster and says nothing about your aptitude. What matters is not waiting weeks – the material fades quickly.

Go to the theory schedule