Victoria's learner permit knowledge test asks 32 multiple choice questions and needs 78 percent correct, which is 25 right answers and seven wrong. According to VicRoads, it is sat as part of the learner permit appointment rather than as a separate booking. The rest of this page covers the appointment, the arithmetic of that 78 percent bar, and the fees that follow a pass.
A pass does not put you on the road alone. It issues a learner permit that lets you drive only with a supervising driver while you collect 120 logbook hours, sit a Hazard Perception Test, and later take the drive test. The Victorian learner hub sets those later stages next to the knowledge test.
What happens at the learner permit appointment?
The in-person path starts before you sit down. You must be at least 16, live in Victoria, be medically fit to drive, and not be disqualified from holding a permit. You book a learner permit appointment at a VicRoads Customer Service Centre and pay for the test and the appointment as part of that booking, so there is no separate exam slot to find.
Bring original identity documents, not copies, plus proof of a current Victorian address if your identity papers do not show it. Bring glasses or contact lenses if you need them for the eyesight chart, and any medical reports VicRoads asked for. Missing a required original is a common reason people are sent away without sitting, so check the list against your documents before you leave home.
The centre checks your documents, then tests your eyesight. After that you sit the computerised 32 question multiple choice test in the same visit. There are three options on each item. Twenty-five correct answers pass and an eighth miss fails. You are not collecting a knowledge result for a later counter. The test and the permit application are meant to finish together.
If you pass, VicRoads takes your photo and signature and issues a temporary learner permit you can use until the plastic card arrives in the post. You must carry the permit whenever you drive with a supervising driver. If you fail, you do not walk out with a permit. You book another appointment and you pay again. An incomplete folder ends the visit before a single question appears.
How many questions can you get wrong in Victoria?
A 78 percent pass mark on 32 questions is 25 correct. Twenty-four correct is 75 percent, which is below the bar, so the eighth miss fails the sitting even though the raw score still looks high. Seven wrong answers is the whole margin. Our pass mark tool is built for this kind of threshold, where one extra miss changes a 25 out of 32 into a fail rather than a near miss.
That margin is more forgiving than several other Australian knowledge tests if you read each place as its own rule. Victoria: 32 questions at 78 percent, seven wrong answers allowed, sat inside the learner permit appointment, per VicRoads. New South Wales: 45 questions in two sections, 12 of 15 on general knowledge then 29 of 30 on road safety, as Transport for NSW sets it out.
Queensland: PrepL ends in a 30 question assessment needing 27 correct, which is 90 percent, at a fee of $29.70, set by the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. Western Australia: 30 questions needing 24 correct, first sitting $22.40 and each resit $19.20, from Western Australian transport information.
South Australia: two parts, 8 give way questions where all 8 must be correct, then 42 questions needing 32 correct, fee $40, from South Australian licensing information. Australian Capital Territory: 35 questions needing 31 correct, on ACT Government figures. Tasmania: the knowledge test is free through Service Tasmania. The Northern Territory knowledge test asks 30 questions and needs 26 correct, according to the Northern Territory Government Get your driver licence page.
It is still a real test. Seven wrong answers sounds generous until you meet a run of give way diagrams. The topics that cost people those answers are consistent: right of way at unmarked intersections, speed limits in specific zone types, and what the various line markings actually permit.
Which Victorian topics use up those seven answers?
Unmarked intersections are the item learners most often describe as confusing. Two cars arrive together at a suburban cross intersection with no stop sign, no give way sign, no lights and no line markings. Car A is going straight. Car B is approaching from A's right, also going straight. Car A must give way to Car B. At a T intersection with no signs or lights, the driver on the terminating road gives way to traffic on the continuing road.
Speed zone types catch people who memorise 50 and 100 and then stop. In a built-up area with no speed limit sign, the default is 50 km/h. Outside a built-up area with no sign, the default is 100 km/h. A school zone is limited to the number and the times printed on the sign, on school days, whether or not children are visible. A shared zone is limited to the number on that sign, not to the built-up default. A speed limit is a ceiling in good conditions, not a target.
Line markings decide what you may physically do. A single continuous white line down the centre of the road means you must not cross it to overtake, with limited exceptions such as entering or leaving the road or passing an obstruction safely. A broken dividing line may be crossed to overtake when it is safe and otherwise legal. Where two lines run together and the line nearer to you is continuous, you must not cross to overtake, because you read the line on your side even if the far line is broken.
Those three topics carry straight into the drive test, which is why give way diagrams deserve disproportionate study time: failing to give way is one of the actions that ends a Victorian sitting on the spot. A tram stopped with no safety zone is a Victorian extra: stop level with the rear of the tram and wait until passengers are clear and the doors close.
What does the Victorian sequence add up to?
If you have not booked anything yet, you can add up the Victorian sequence on paper using only the VicRoads Ls and Ps fees page. The Car Learner Permit Test in person is $28.70 plus a $22.10 appointment fee, $50.80 in total, and the learner permit issue is listed as free. The Hazard Perception Test in person is $21.90 plus the $22.10 appointment fee, $44.00 in total, and is sat before the drive test. The drive test is $53.20 plus the $22.10 appointment fee, $75.30 per sitting. Those three totals are the official stage fees, not a quote for lessons, fuel or a supervising driver's time.
If every sitting is passed first time in person, add them in order. $50.80 covers the knowledge test appointment. $44.00 covers one Hazard Perception sitting, which takes the running total to $94.80. $75.30 covers one drive test, which takes $94.80 to $170.10. That $170.10 is the clean in-person path through the three VicRoads charges. The same page makes the first online attempt at both computer tests free, so if you pass both online first time you pay $0 plus $0 plus $75.30, which is $75.30. Either total looks small until a later sitting is failed.
Now add one failed Hazard Perception sitting to the in-person path. Another $44.00 takes the running total from $170.10 to $214.10. Then add one failed drive test. Another $75.30 takes $214.10 to $289.40. The extra sittings cost $44.00 plus $75.30, which is $119.30 on top of the clean $170.10, and $170.10 plus $119.30 is $289.40. The paper total for the original three fees plus one extra attempt at each later test is therefore $289.40 in VicRoads stage charges. Online, a second Hazard Perception attempt is $22.10 on the fees page but $20.70 on the VicRoads Hazard Perception Test page, and the two VicRoads pages disagree. A failed knowledge sitting in person would add another $50.80 on top of that $289.40, which is why turning up underprepared is expensive before a single logbook hour is driven.
Fees change, so treat $50.80, $44.00 and $75.30 as the current in-person totals rather than a permanent price list, and confirm the amounts with VicRoads before you book. Our licence cost calculator keeps those stage fees in one place. The point is not that any single fee looks large. It is that the sequence adds up stage by stage once a resit is in the mix.
Why can this site not reuse official Victorian wording?
New South Wales publishes its car question bank under an open licence, which is why this site can put the real Driver Knowledge Test questions in front of you. Victoria is different. The Victorian legislation site carries Government Printer copyright with personal use terms, and the state's learner handbook is Crown copyright. Neither is open licensed. The copyright page on legislation.vic.gov.au states that authorised electronic versions are published for personal use only.
So for Victoria we write every question from scratch against the current road rules and cite the rule behind each answer. We reproduce no handbook text and no official question wording. A road rule is a fact, and facts are not copyrightable, but the words someone else chose to express them in are.
The official handbook is still the thing to read. It is the authoritative description of what you are being tested on and it is free. Our questions are practice on top of it, not a replacement for it. Use the handbook to learn the rule, then use a full 32 question set to see whether you can apply it. Our Victorian practice questions are set out in the format VicRoads actually uses.
What does the Victorian L plate let you do?
The permit lets you drive a car on the road with a supervising driver, with L plates displayed, while you hold a current learner permit. It does not let you drive unaccompanied, and the permit has to be with you on every drive. The next hard requirement is time in the car: VicRoads requires 120 supervised logbook hours before the drive test, which sits at the top end nationally.
Other logbooks are shorter, which makes the 120 hours the longest single requirement in the Victorian sequence. On each state agency's own rules, Queensland requires 100 supervised hours and Western Australia requires 50 supervised hours including 5 at night. New South Wales matches Victoria at 120 hours, with 20 credited for the Safer Drivers Course. The Victorian hours have to be driven, recorded and available at the drive test.
The Hazard Perception Test is sat before the drive test rather than after it. The first online attempt is free and an in-person sitting is $44.00 including the appointment fee, on the VicRoads Ls and Ps fees page. You cannot use a passed knowledge test as a substitute for it. The same page puts the drive test at $75.30 per sitting including the appointment fee. Book the later tests only after the logbook is genuinely complete, because a shortfall in hours is a paperwork fail before the car moves.
The drive test is where Victoria gets interesting statistically. Freedom of information data covering January 2024 to April 2026 shows a 72.2 percent statewide pass rate across 492,504 tests, with first attempts passing 74.2 percent and fifth attempts down at 51.7 percent. The same release shows more than one test in five stopped part way through for a critical error.
Victoria publishes those outcomes statewide rather than by test centre, so there is no public per centre comparison the way there is in New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland. New South Wales publishes driving test outcomes for roughly 150 test centres, with a statewide pass rate of about 56 percent. What the Victorian termination figure means for how you prepare is covered in our guide on why Victorian drive tests end early.
A two-week plan before the appointment date
Work backwards from the appointment. In the first three days, read the official Road to Solo Driving handbook as the source of the rules, including the chapters you think you already know. VicRoads bases the learner permit questions on that handbook. Do not treat a practice site, including this one, as a substitute for it. Keep a list of every rule you cannot explain without looking it up.
Days four to eight are for full 32 question sets rather than short bursts, so the pacing matches the real thing. Review every wrong answer against the rule it cites. Add the topic to your list if you have now missed it twice. A score of 25 is the pass mark, not a cue to stop. Keep sitting full sets until 25 is the floor you can repeat, not a peak you hit once.
Days nine to eleven belong to the three topics that spend the seven-answer margin. Draw unmarked cross intersections and T intersections and say who gives way before you look at options. Write the default 50 km/h and 100 km/h limits, then the school zone and shared zone exceptions as the numbers on those signs. For line markings, state what a continuous centre line permits and what a continuous line on your side of a pair forbids.
Days twelve to fourteen are two more full 32 question sittings with a gap between them, plus a final pass through the handbook on every topic still on your list. If give way items are still producing misses, that is the work, not a general reread. Arrive with original documents, glasses if you wear them, and the payment VicRoads requires, because the sitting is wasted if the counter sends you home.
Common questions
- Question
- how many questions can you get wrong on the vic learner permit test
- Seven. VicRoads sets the pass mark at 78 percent of 32 multiple choice questions, so you need 25 correct. Score 24 out of 32 and you are at 75 percent, which fails. A run of give way diagrams can use up that margin quickly.
- Question
- how much does a learner permit cost in victoria
- The learner permit issue is listed as free on the VicRoads Ls and Ps fees page, with a note that the issue fee is waived under the Motorist Package and Safe Driver Discount. The Car Learner Permit Test in person is $28.70 plus a $22.10 appointment fee, $50.80 in total. Online, the first attempt is free and further online attempts are $28.70. Later stages carry their own fees: the Hazard Perception Test is free on the first online attempt or $44.00 in person, and the drive test is $75.30 per sitting. Fees change, so confirm the current amounts with VicRoads before you book.
- Question
- is the vic learner knowledge test a separate booking
- No. According to VicRoads, the 32 question knowledge test happens inside the learner permit appointment. Pass it and the permit application is finished in the same visit. Fail it and you need a new appointment, with a new fee.
- Question
- why are the victorian practice questions on this site not the official ones
- Because Victoria's material is not openly licensed, unlike the New South Wales question bank. Victorian legislation is published under Government Printer copyright with personal use terms, and the learner handbook is Crown copyright. So each Victorian question here is original, written against the current road rules with the rule behind the answer cited, and none of the handbook text or official question wording is copied.
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- how many logbook hours do you need after a vic learner permit
- 120 supervised hours, logged before the drive test, on the VicRoads requirement. That is the same total as New South Wales. Passing the Hazard Perception Test is a separate step that also comes before the drive test.
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- when do you sit the vic hazard perception test
- After you hold a learner permit, and before you take the drive test, not after it. The VicRoads Ls and Ps fees page makes the first online Hazard Perception attempt free and puts an in-person sitting at $44.00, which is $21.90 plus a $22.10 appointment fee. For a later online attempt that page says $22.10 while the VicRoads Hazard Perception Test page says $20.70, so check which applies when you pay. A passed knowledge test does not replace it. Leave time between a Hazard Perception attempt and a drive test booking in case you need another sitting.
- Question
- does victoria publish drive test pass rates by centre
- No. Only a statewide figure is released, so Victorian centres cannot be compared the way centres in New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland can. That figure, from a freedom of information release covering January 2024 to April 2026, is 72.2 percent across 492,504 tests, and more than one test in five was stopped part way through for a critical error.
Sources
- Victorian legislation, Road Safety Road Rules 2017Checked
- Victorian legislation, copyright notice (Government Printer, personal use)Checked
- Queensland Government, Driver tests written and onlineChecked
- Queensland Government, PrepL online learning and assessmentChecked
- Queensland Government, Licence feesChecked
- Service NSW, Apply for a learner driver licenceChecked
- VicRoads: Ls and Ps feesChecked
- VicRoads: Hazard Perception TestChecked