How to pass your written driving test On Your FIRST Attempt

Learn DMV Manual

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Read through New York State handbook

Our course materials have audio DMV Manual and DMV handbook, making them engaging and easy to absorb. You can enjoy learning in a whole new way!

Common topics to focus on include:

• The meanings of different road signs
• Driving in specific situations, such as driving in the city
• Knowing the right-of-way rules
• How to handle the different types of intersections and turns
• Common speed limits for different types of roads
• Meanings of different curb colors
• State-specific road rules

Organize by Topics

To ensure you're adequately prepared, take the time to read through this manual and test your understanding with a practice exam.

Afterwards, compile all of your information into a categorized list - allowing for smoother focus on any tricky topics that need extra attention!

Re-Read and Re-Test

It isn’t enough to scan through your handbook one time, half-heartedly click through an online practice test and think that you’re ready. Doing so could render all of your efforts fruitless!

What should you do? After you’ve completed all of your study materials, go ahead and start right back at square one.

Review the material again and take the practice tests as often as you can before the big day! These materials are either free or cost-effective, and they’re well worth the investment.

Take online practice tests

You can find written driving test practice exams on most states’ DMV sites. These practice tests are a good way to review the information and they often follow a similar format to the official tests.

Get yourself in the zone

Before heading into your written test, play your favorite song, take a few minutes to meditate, or have an energizing snack — whatever it is that will help you feel confident.

Set Everything Out the Night Before

Thirty minutes before your written exam begins isn’t the time to be searching for your keys. While you won’t need to bring anything special to your exam besides yourself, go ahead and get everything prepared at home the night before.

This might mean setting your clothes out, preparing your breakfast ahead of time, or making special arrangements for your family. This way, the only thing you have to focus on when you wake up is getting to the DMV and acing your test!

Stay Calm and Focused

Studies reveal that around 16% to 20% of people experience test anxiety, or the onset of nerves right before a big exam. Do you turn into a bundle of nerves any time you think about sitting down at the desk to take your driver’s exam?

While it’s easy to become overwhelmed when you consider all that’s at stake, try to remember how much you’ve prepared for this. To the best of your ability, try to stay calm and focused all the way through the test.

If you allow your anxiety to reign, you’re more likely to fly through the test and miss important information or even entire questions. Pace yourself, read every word and take a few deep breaths.

Other proven ways to induce a sense of peace before a test include:

• Taking deep breaths
• Practicing mindfulness meditation
• Conducting head-to-toe muscle relaxation
• Repeating an empowering mantra
• Visualizing a positive outcome

These tried-and-true relaxation techniques can help you replace the butterflies in your stomach with a true sense of confidence!

Keep Positive

Though it might feel like it as you stare down at your test, try to remember that DMV isn’t against you! In fact, these professionals are on your side and rooting for you to drive away with your license.

Use this knowledge to propel you to great heights as you enter the testing center. Before and during your test day, try to remain as positive and empowered as possible. This confidence will then spill over into all other areas of your life, making you a more diligent and focused student.

Go slow and try not to get discouraged if you come up against a question that’s super tough. Rationalize your way through it and try to recall where it fell in your DMV handbook and list of topics.

Get a good night’s sleep

Pulling an all-nighter before your written test can do more harm than good. Getting a full night’s sleep helps your brain retain what it learned that day.

Approach difficult questions logically

If you get stuck on a question, read through it carefully and narrow down the potential answers based on what you remember from studying. Even if you can eliminate two of four options, that will give you a 50/50 chance of getting the question right.

Don’t get held up on questions you don’t know

Since the test has a time limit, you don’t want to waste too much time on tricky questions. If you can, skip them and return to them once you’ve answered the other questions. And don’t feel too discouraged if you get tripped up. No states require a perfect score, so even if you get stumped by one or two questions, that doesn’t mean you won’t pass. Learn more about passing your driver’s test.