Assessment items

This part details exactly what your assessor will be looking for during your practical driving assessment.

It explains how the assessor will score what you do and tells you how you need to drive to pass the assessment.

It describes each assessment item in detail and gives you some useful examples.

Assessment items in detail

• Look behind
• Flow
• Movement
• Path
• Manoeuvres
• Responsiveness
• Signal
• Vehicle management

Other items

• Fail items 
• Stopping the assessment

Individual links to these assessment items may be found to the right of this page.

The words with special meanings that have been used in this book are:

• Diverge means a manoeuvre in which a vehicle changes its position on the road. Two common examples of diverging would be pulling out from the kerb and changing lanes;
• exercise is an activity during the assessment consisting of two low speed manoeuvres that are typical of an everyday driving task;
• manoeuvres including manoeuvres at all speeds;
• merge which occurs when two lanes of traffic merge into one;
• road speed manoeuvres including changing lanes, merging, turning at intersections, giving way and stopping at intersections;
• slow manoeuvres including manoeuvres such as parking, starting off from the side of the road and turning around in tight spaces (for example, three-point turns); and
• turn including turning at an intersection to leave one street and enter another.