Booking your Hazard Perception Test

You can take the HPT after you've held your learner licence for at least 10 months. However there is no pressure to do the test at 10 months, book it when you are ready.

You'll need to pay the test fee when you make your booking.

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About the Hazard Perception Test

The HPT is a computer-based touch screen test. It measures your ability to recognise potentially dangerous situations on the road and respond appropriately.

It aims to ensure you have enough hazard perception skills to prepare you for solo driving and progress to a P1 licence.

There are 15 film clips in the test. You'll be given two clips to practice before the test begins.

The test questions and situations focus on the 5 most common crash types for NSW provisional drivers. The test uses real traffic situations and each clip asks you to touch the screen, when you would slow down, overtake or turn at an intersection.

Languages other than English

The HPT is available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Korean, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

A free interpreter service is available to people who need to take the test in other languages. Please call 13 22 13 to arrange an interpreter.

Support for special needs or learning difficulties

If you have trouble understanding or reading the questions, our staff can assist by reading questions to you, and explaining the test questions.

An audio version of the test (where you listen to the questions through headphones) is also available, in all of the above languages.

If you have special needs, you (or your representative) should call 13 22 13 to make arrangements before you book the test.

How to study for the test

To help you pass the HPT, study the Hazard Perception Handbook and use this knowledge in your driving. Building your hazard perception skills will help you pass the HPT and avoid the most common crash types.

Download the Hazard Perception Handbook or purchase it from any service centre.

HPT practice tests

There are 5 interactive practice test modules to help you practice the skills you'll need to pass the HPT. The practice test modules are not examples of actual test questions, they are animations demonstrating the main concepts of hazard perception, including stopping and following distance, safe gaps and scanning for hazards. In the real test, you’ll be shown real traffic situations.

To use the HPT modules:

• use the sliders to control distance
• control your speed with + and - buttons
• choose options from pull-down menus
• use arrows to go left or right and to look left, centre or right

Access the practice modules:

• How close is safe – make the connection between distance and speed
• Stopping distances – learn how long it takes to stop at various speeds
• Safe gaps when turning – learn to safely judge gaps when turning left and right at 'T' intersections
• Safe gaps at intersections – learn to safely judge safe gaps when turning right at traffic lights
• Scanning for hazards – learn to react to hazards you encounter on the road.

Safer Driver Course

The Safer Driver Course will also help you prepare for your HPT as it covers hazard awareness, speed management, gap selection and safe following distances.

When you should take the HPT

You can book a Hazard Perception Test after you've held your learner licence for at least 10 months. However, there is no pressure to do the test until you are ready.

You should book your HPT when you're close to being ready for the driving test. If you haven't passed the driving test within 15 months of passing the Hazard Perception test, you'll need to sit the HPT again.

You can drive on your Learner licence for up to 5 years before it expires. But if it does expire, you'll need to pass the Driver Knowledge Test again before you receive a new Learner licence.

Related links

• Provisional P2 licence