Free SA Learners Test and Theory Test Practice

The South Australian hazard perception test costs $37, can be taken online through mySAGOV or in person at certain Service SA centres, and must be passed before you can apply for a P1 provisional licence.

You need to pass the test to move from a learner's permit to a P1 provisional licence, and it also applies when you transfer an overseas licence. The hazard perception test pages read do not set a minimum learner period for the test itself. The P1 licence has its own rules: you must be at least 17, have held the learner's permit for 12 full calendar months if you are under 25 or six full calendar months if you are 25 or older, and have at least 75 hours of supervised driving including 15 hours at night.

South Australia puts the test between the learner's permit and the P1 licence. After it, you still need the permit time and supervised hours above, and a pass in either the Vehicle On Road Test or competency based training and assessment, before the P1 is issued.

You start with an introduction and instructions, then practice questions, then the test. Each question is a film clip of a real traffic situation seen from the driver's seat, with the dashboard showing your speed and whether the indicators are on. You are told what the driver wants to do, such as move off, turn right, slow down or overtake, and you decide if and when it is safe. Questions are drawn at random from a larger pool, each is shown once, and an answer cannot be changed. The pages read do not state how many clips there are.

$37. Online you pay when you enrol and can attempt the test as often as you need for 12 months at no extra cost. In person the $37 fee is charged for each attempt.

Online by logging in to mySAGOV in a web browser, not the mobile app, and choosing Enrol in hazard perception test. In person at certain Service SA centres, booked on 13 10 84 between 9:30 am and 4 pm on weekdays, with Saturday bookings at the Elizabeth and Marion centres.

No public practice test link appears on the pages read. The practice questions run inside the test itself, before the scored questions start.

Online, you can retake the test as many times as you need within 12 months of enrolling. In person, each new attempt costs another $37.

The My Licence guide to the test walks through the crash patterns of provisional drivers and the skills the clips measure: keeping a safe following distance and safe space to the side and rear, selecting safe gaps when turning left or right, making U-turns, crossing intersections and overtaking, scanning for hazards and expecting the unexpected. It says a lack of these skills is a major factor in crashes involving young novice drivers. If you pass, the final screen gives feedback on areas to improve.

The South Australian theory test comes in two parts. Part one is eight give way questions and all eight have to be correct. Part two is 42 questions with 32 correct to pass. After the theory test South Australia splits again: either the one off Vehicle On Road Test, or competency based training and assessment recorded in a logbook with an accredited instructor.

Requirements depend on which pathway you take after the theory test, the Vehicle On Road Test or competency based training and assessment. We are checking the current figures against Service SA before publishing them.

Part one has no margin at all. Eight give way questions, eight correct answers, and the intersection diagrams are the reason most people repeat it.

No verified pass rate is published here for the Vehicle On Road Test.

Source: Department for Infrastructure and Transport, checked 15 September 2026. Sources read: SA.GOV.AU: Hazard perception test (HPT); My Licence SA: The Hazard Perception Test; My Licence SA: How the Hazard Perception Test works; My Licence SA: Obtaining a provisional licence.