Free Queensland PrepL and Prep L Practice Test

The Queensland car hazard perception test is an online test of 25 computer generated videos, separate from PrepL and costing $42.70, and every learner must pass it before booking a practical driving test.

You must have held your learner licence for at least 6 months. If you have an email address registered with the Department of Transport and Main Roads, it emails you when you can take the test. All learner drivers, whatever their age, must pass it, and there are no exemptions.

A Queensland learner licence can only be upgraded to a provisional licence once it has been held for at least 12 months, 100 hours of supervised driving are approved in the logbook, the hazard perception test is passed and the practical driving test is passed. The hazard perception test has to come before the practical, because you cannot book the practical until it is passed.

The test is online and shows 25 computer generated videos. You show how you would react to each situation, and the situations are based on the ones novice drivers and riders find most challenging. It takes about 15 to 30 minutes and must be finished in one sitting, because progress cannot be saved. The department recommends a laptop or desktop computer for the bigger screen, and on a mobile you need to be able to see the screen clearly. It describes the purpose as checking whether you can recognise potentially dangerous situations or hazards and respond to them safely.

$42.70 as at 1 July 2026, the same fee for the car and motorcycle tests. You pay before you get access, and access lasts up to 12 months.

Online, after you enrol and pay through the Department of Transport and Main Roads. The Indigenous Driver Licensing Unit can deliver an offline version of the car test during its visits to communities.

A practice test opens once you have enrolled, and you can repeat it as many times as you like before the real test. There is no separate public practice test, though the About hazard perception tests page shows two short example scenario videos.

You can attempt the test as many times as you like, with no lock-out period between attempts, while your access lasts. A pass is confirmed by email with the steps to the next licence stage.

Instructions appear once you enrol, followed by the practice test. Set aside uninterrupted time and stay connected to the internet for at least the 15 to 30 minutes the test takes. If you cannot complete the online car test, message the department or call 13 23 80. Two groups outside the usual learner path also sit it: drivers issued a P1 licence before 29 March 2021 must pass it before moving to a P2 or open licence, after holding the P1 for at least 1 year, and some returning drivers whose last licence was a P1 must pass it before booking a practical driving test. Riders sit a separate motorcycle hazard perception test, which has no offline version. For comparison, the same fee page lists PrepL at $29.70 and the practical driving test at $69.40 as at 1 July 2026, and the two example videos, a car waiting to turn right and a motorcycle on the road, each run 17 seconds with a transcript.

PrepL is an online course of roughly 4 to 6 hours, finished with a 30 question assessment that needs 27 correct. You can start from 15 years and 11 months of age. The 90% bar is the highest of any learner assessment in the country, so the drill here is built around the topics that cost people those three answers.

100 supervised hours in the logbook before the practical test.

27 out of 30. Queensland gives you three wrong answers across the whole assessment, which is why people who breeze the course still stall at the end of it.

About 61% statewide. Queensland publishes practical test results as open data by local government area, licence class, booking type and age group.

Source: Department of Transport and Main Roads, checked 15 September 2026. Sources read: Queensland Government: Car hazard perception test; Queensland Government: About hazard perception tests; Queensland Government: Licence fees.