Queensland, motorcycle licence

Free Queensland motorbike licence practice test

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Free Queensland motorcycle learners test practice starts here. The 8 motorbike licence practice tests draw from 70 original questions in 12 topics.

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Queensland is the only jurisdiction that publishes a second filtering permission, edge filtering along the road shoulder or emergency stopping lane at 30 km/h or less where the road is posted at 90 km/h or higher, and the only one that ends the learner stage with a fork, the Q-Ride restricted RE course or the Q-SAFE riding test. The original questions here are written around the class RE conditions, the two filtering permissions and the supervision rule. The Department of Transport and Main Roads publishes no rider question bank, so the answers cite A Guide to Riding Safely and the road rules rather than an official paper.

Where these questions come from

Department of Transport and Main Roads does not publish a motorcycle question bank. The 70 questions here are original practice questions written for this site against the current Queensland road rules for riders, with the rule cited on every answer. They are not the official questions and nothing on this page says otherwise.

The road sign questions, and the sign artwork with them, were written and drawn for this site as well.

The QLD rider test format

Not checked against Department of Transport and Main Roads, so the figures stay blank. What that means is on the motorcycle index.

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Why seven of the eight rider formats are blank here

Two Queensland filtering permissions

Queensland lane filtering requires an open licence for the motorcycle being ridden. The rider may travel at 30 km/h or less between two lines of traffic moving in the same direction. Learner and provisional licence holders are excluded. Filtering is also barred during school zone hours, where a no filtering sign applies, between a vehicle and the kerb, in a bicycle lane or wherever it is unsafe.

Edge filtering is a separate Queensland permission and the only such allowance found across the eight jurisdictions. An open licence holder may use the road shoulder or emergency stopping lane at no more than 30 km/h when the road is posted at 90 km/h or higher. Unsealed sections, roadworks and tunnels are excluded. A variable speed sign reducing the limit below 90 km/h also removes the permission.

Class RE supervision and progression

Motorcycle class. A class RE learner is restricted to a learner approved motorcycle.

Passenger exception. No pillion passenger is allowed, except that a supervisor may accompany the learner in a sidecar.

Alcohol. The class RE learner requirement is 0.00 blood alcohol concentration.

Supervisor. Supervision must come from a person with an open licence for that class who has held it for at least one year.

Minimum holding period. The RE learner licence must be held for at least 90 days, or for one year when the learner was exempted from the pre-learner course.

The class RE motorcycle restriction

Queensland states the vehicle limit through learner approved motorcycle status for class RE. No separate Queensland capacity or power threshold has been checked here. Approval, the correct licence class and qualified supervision therefore belong together when checking whether a learner ride meets the stated conditions.

Separate lane filtering from edge filtering

Map each Queensland permission to its own road position. Lane filtering belongs between same-direction lines of traffic. Edge filtering belongs on a shoulder or emergency stopping lane and brings the 90 km/h posted-limit threshold. Apply the shared ceiling of 30 km/h only after identifying which permission is in play.

For licence progression, order the confirmed requirements: hold the RE learner licence for the applicable period, complete the motorcycle hazard perception test, then take either the Q-Ride restricted RE course or the Q-SAFE riding test. No Queensland rider test name, question count or pass mark has been confirmed, so this page states none.

Queensland is the only jurisdiction in this comparison that publishes a second filtering permission for the road shoulder and emergency stopping lane, so keep the 90 km/h posted-limit threshold, the exclusions for unsealed sections, roadworks and tunnels, and the variable speed sign that removes the permission tied to edge filtering and not to ordinary lane filtering. The Q-Ride and Q-SAFE choice is Queensland's alone, so learn it as a fork rather than a single named test.

Sources

  • 70 original questions written for this site, cited to A Guide to Riding Safely (Queensland), Transport Operations (Road Use Management and Australian Road Rules.
  • Queensland Government, Motorcycle road rules.
  • Queensland Government, Rules for learner riders.

Reviewed 27 August 2026. Independent of Department of Transport and Main Roads.