Tasmania runs the smallest and, on the numbers we can verify, the most forgiving learner pathway in the country. It is also the jurisdiction where we currently publish the least detail, because several of the format specifics have not yet been checked against the Tasmanian source and we do not publish figures we have not checked.
What is verified
The Tasmanian knowledge test is booked through Service Tasmania and carries no fee. That makes it the cheapest entry point in Australia by a clear margin: South Australia charges $40 for its theory test, Queensland $29.70 for PrepL, and Western Australia $22.40 for a first theory sitting with $19.20 for each resit. The South Australian figure was checked on 27 August 2026 and the other two were read on the agency fee pages on 28 August 2026.
The practical driving assessment is reported to pass around 86% of candidates, which would be the highest state pass rate in the country and roughly double the Western Australian figure of 42.3% checked on the same date. We carry that 86% flagged: no Tasmanian publisher has been recorded against it, so it should not be used to settle an argument until a Tasmanian source is named. The Western Australian figure, by contrast, comes from a named freedom of information release.
What is being verified
The question count and pass mark for the Tasmanian knowledge test are not published here yet. Several competing sites do carry numbers for both. We have not been able to confirm those figures against a current Tasmanian source, and repeating another site's figure is how errors propagate across a whole market, so ours says it is being checked instead.
The same applies to supervised hour requirements. Tasmania's arrangements are being checked against Service Tasmania before publication. When each check is done, the figure appears here with its source and the date attached, the same as every other number on this site.
This is deliberate rather than an oversight we are apologising for. A site whose entire claim is that its facts are current and sourced cannot carry unsourced facts in the places where checking was inconvenient.
Reading an unattributed 86% correctly
A high pass rate is easy to misread as an easy test. What a pass rate actually measures is the interaction between the standard, the roads, and who turns up. Tasmania's road network carries less of the dense multi lane traffic that drives failure rates in Perth and Sydney, and the candidate population is small enough that a single centre's intake affects the state figure.
The practical consequence for a Tasmanian learner is the opposite of reassuring. A soft looking pass rate encourages people to book early and prepare lightly, and the assessment still ends on the same critical errors it does everywhere else: failing to give way, missing observation before a change of position, and speed in changed conditions.
How to prepare
Read the official Tasmanian learner material end to end. It is free, it is the authoritative description of what you are tested on, and in a jurisdiction where the third party information is thin it is by some distance the best source available to you.
Practise the road rules that are national rather than local. Australian road rules are substantially harmonised across jurisdictions, so give way rules, speed zone types, line markings and signage transfer directly. Where a rule is genuinely Tasmania specific, the official material is the place to confirm it.
Confirm the current test format with Service Tasmania when you book. That advice holds anywhere, and it holds more firmly in a jurisdiction where we are openly telling you our own figures are still being checked.
How this guide is kept honest
Every figure above names the agency or dataset it came from and the date it was checked. Where a number has not been confirmed against an agency or an open dataset, the guide says it is being verified rather than filling the gap. Licensing rules change, so check the agency page before you pay for anything or book a test.
Last reviewed against Service Tasmania.