South Australia, motorcycle licence
Free South Australia motorbike licence practice test
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Free South Australia motorcycle learners test practice starts here. The 8 motorbike licence practice tests draw from 70 original questions in 12 topics.
South Australia writes its filtering permission around named licence classes, R and R-Date, rather than the phrase full licence, and its list of places a rider cannot filter includes roundabouts. The R-Date class carries a 19 year minimum age, 12 months on the learner permit and 2 years before unrestricted R is added at renewal without another test. The original questions here are built around those class names and periods, cited to The Rider's Handbook and the road rules. Service SA publishes no rider question bank.
Where these questions come from
Service SA does not publish a motorcycle question bank. The 70 questions here are original practice questions written for this site against the current South Australia 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.
What the SA rider bank covers
70 original questions in 12 topics, written 28 August 2026. Each topic is readable in full, correct answer marked, on its own page.
- Lane use and filtering, 5 questionsR and R-Date eligibility first, then the under 30 km/h limit, the clearance between vehicles and the named prohibited places, roundabouts included.
- Licence rules and learner restrictions, 8 questionsThe R-Date periods are the substance here: 19 years old, 12 months on the learner permit, 2 years on R-Date, then unrestricted R at the next renewal.
- Learner approved motorcycles, 5 questionsApproval is the whole of the vehicle restriction for the R-Date period. No South Australian capacity or power figure has been checked, so none is stated.
- Every SA rider question by topicThe other 9 topics: Protective gear and helmets (7), Cornering and counter steering (6), Braking (7), Road surface hazards (7), Lane position and buffering (6), Being seen (5), Pillion passengers and loads (5), Riding in a group (4) and Weather, animals and distance (5).
65 of the 70 answers cite The Rider's Handbook (South Australia), and the rest cite Australian Road Rules and My Licence (South Australia).
The SA rider test format
Not checked against Service SA, so the figures stay blank. What that means is on the motorcycle index.
- Test
- Being verified
- Questions
- Being verified
- Pass mark
- Being verified
- Fees and licence steps
- Being verified
Filtering by R and R-Date class
South Australia grants lane filtering to riders in the R and R-Date classes. The speed must remain under 30 km/h, the movement must be safe and there must be enough clearance between vehicles. Learner permit holders and P1 riders cannot filter. It is the only jurisdiction that states the permission through named licence classes rather than the phrase full licence.
The South Australian exclusions name school zones, pedestrian crossings, children's crossings, parked cars, the space between a vehicle and the edge of the road, and roundabouts. The clearance requirement remains relevant even where none of the named location bans applies.
Read it at the source
We could not open the South Australian licensing page from here on 3 September 2026, so read the lane filtering rule there yourself before you rely on it.
Moving from R-Date to unrestricted R
Minimum age. An R-Date rider must be at least 19 years old.
Learner permit period. The rider must have held an R-Date learner permit for at least 12 months.
Motorcycle restriction. The R-Date class is limited to learner approved motorcycles.
Unrestricted class. After 2 years on R-Date, the unrestricted R class is added at the next licence renewal without another test.
The motorcycle limit attached to R-Date
Learner approved motorcycle status remains the vehicle boundary for the whole R-Date period. No South Australian capacity, power or output figure has been checked here. The restriction is therefore best remembered by its connection to the named R-Date class and its 2-year period before unrestricted R is added at renewal.
Anchor answers to South Australian class names
Base filtering decisions on R and R-Date eligibility first, then check the under-30 km/h limit, available clearance and the named prohibited place. That order prevents the permission for an R-Date rider from being confused with the ban applying to an R-Date learner permit holder or a P1 rider.
No South Australian rider test name, question count or pass mark has been confirmed, so this page states none. Concentrate on what is known: the 19-year minimum, 12 months on the R-Date learner permit, 2 years on R-Date and addition of unrestricted R at the next renewal without a further test.
Two things mark South Australia out in this comparison. It is the only jurisdiction that writes the filtering permission around named licence classes, R and R-Date, instead of the phrase full licence, and it excludes both the learner permit holder and the P1 rider by name. It also lists roundabouts among the banned places, so pair the clearance requirement between vehicles with the roundabout ban when you rehearse a South Australian answer.
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Read up before you practise in SA
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- How many give way questions are on the SA test?Learn which give way rules South Australia marks at eight of eight, why one miss fails the sitting, and how to read each diagram before you sit the test.
- Rider tests in all 8 jurisdictionsWhat a rider knowledge test is, what this site claims and does not, and the sign library.
Sources
- 70 original questions written for this site, cited to The Rider's Handbook (South Australia), Australian Road Rules and My Licence (South Australia).
- mylicence.sa.gov.au, Motor bike lane filtering.
- mylicence.sa.gov.au, R-Date class.
Reviewed 27 August 2026. Independent of Service SA.