Sarthi Parivahan mock test: practise for the learner licence test

How to use the sarthi parivahan mock test on this page

The practice tool sits just above this section. Each round picks 15 questions at random from 40 that we wrote from the Motor Vehicles (Driving) Regulations, 2017, the Motor Vehicles Act and police road sign guidance. Answer each question, and the tool shows your score out of 15 along with the correct options and a short explanation for each.

• Read the explanation even when you get a question right, so you learn the rule and not just the answer.
• Run several rounds. Because the questions are drawn at random, you will see most of the bank after a few attempts.
• Use the study guide below for any topic where you keep slipping.

This is a parivahan practice test in spirit only. It is not the Sarathi question bank, and nobody can promise that its questions match what your state asks. Pages that sell a "parivahan ll test questions pdf" as the real paper are not official either.

How the real learner licence test works

The real parivahan LL test is taken on Sarathi, the national licence software, after you apply for a learning licence and pay the fee. In states that offer it, the sarathi LL test runs online from home: Aadhaar authentication confirms who you are and a proctoring system with face recognition watches the session. If you pass, you can download the licence straight away. Where the online test is not offered, ask your RTO how and where the test is held.

Formats vary by state and change over time. Two confirmed examples:

The "15 questions, 9 to pass" figure seen on many sites could not be confirmed from an official source. Go by the instructions your state gives for the test. When we confirm a change to a state's format, we add it to the update box above the practice tool.

Keep left, lanes and overtaking

Road-rule questions, including the parivahan learners test style questions in our bank, draw on a handful of regulations in the Motor Vehicles (Driving) Regulations, 2017.

• Keep left. Drive on the left unless signs or markings say otherwise, and let oncoming traffic pass on your right. Keep left when being overtaken, near a bend or hilltop, and when your view is limited.
• One way. Drive only in the signed direction and never against the flow unless a sign or a uniformed police officer directs it.
• Overtake from the right. Passing on the left is allowed only on a marked multi-lane road, when the vehicle ahead has signalled a right turn or U-turn, or when it is stationary and it is safe.
• No overtaking across solid lines, on bends or corners, at junctions and pedestrian crossings, where the road narrows, on narrow culverts, or in School, Hospital or Construction Zones.
• Do not use your right indicator to tell the driver behind it is safe to pass; a driver being overtaken must not speed up.

Junctions, right of way and roundabouts

Right of way rules come from regulations 7, 9, 10, 15 and 27 of the Driving Regulations.

• At an uncontrolled intersection, vehicles approaching from your right have the right of way.
• That rule does not apply where lights, a police officer or mandatory signs control the junction, or when you are coming out of a minor road onto a major road.
• Entering a national highway, state highway or major district road, give way to traffic already on it. Where two roads of the same category meet, the driver on the right goes first.
• Traffic already inside a roundabout has priority over traffic entering it.
• At a STOP sign, stop before the stop line, give way, then go. At a Give Way sign, slow down and give way. Either way, give way to pedestrians.
• Do not enter a junction where traffic is at a standstill, even on a green signal.
• Emergency vehicles with horn and flasher on go first: fire service, then ambulance, then police. Move left and keep at least fifty metres behind them.

Traffic lights, hand signals and road markings

Hand signals: stop is the right forearm raised vertically, palm facing right; right turn is the right arm stretched out horizontally, palm forward; left turn is the right arm stretched out and rotated anticlockwise; to let the vehicle behind overtake, swing the outstretched right arm backward and forward in a semi-circle.

Markings: do not cross a single or double solid line, and do not cross a yellow or white solid line to overtake. Where a broken line runs beside a solid one, only the broken-line side may cross. Never stop on a yellow box, and do not park along a continuous yellow kerb line.

Horn, silence zones and speed limits

Use the horn only to warn of danger or where a sign tells you to. Never sound it continuously, in residential areas or in a silence zone, which is an area notified by the authorities where horns are banned. Do not fit or use an air horn or multi-toned horn that gives a harsh, shrill, loud or alarming noise.

Maximum speeds set by MoRTH notification S.O. 1522(E) of 6 April 2018 (in km/h):

These are ceilings: a lower signed limit always applies. Near a school, hospital or construction site, or where people walk on the carriageway, do not exceed 25 km/h.

Road sign categories

Road signs in India fall into three groups, and a common parivahan sewa mock test style of question, including several in our bank, asks which group a sign belongs to.

Secondary sources describe a prohibition as a circle with a red diagonal slash, positive instructions ("compulsory" signs) as blue circles, and cautionary signs as triangles with a red border. We could not confirm these colours from an official source; the national road sign code (IRC:67) sets the exact designs, so check it for colours and details.

Documents to carry, helmets, seat belts and drink driving

• Documents. For a private car or motorcycle, carry your driving licence and PUC (pollution under control) certificate, plus the registration certificate (RC) and insurance or their copies. Transport vehicles must carry originals of the licence, tax, registration, insurance, fitness and PUC certificates. MoRTH advised states in 2018 to accept documents shown through DigiLocker or mParivahan; see DL download.
• Helmets. Everyone above four years of age on a motorcycle must wear a securely fastened helmet. A Sikh wearing a turban is exempt.
• Seat belts. The driver and occupants must wear them where fitted, and a child up to twelve must use a child restraint where one is provided.
• Drink driving. Section 185 makes it an offence to drive with more than 30 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood, whether a breathalyser or a lab test finds it.
• Mobile phones. No hand-held phone use while driving; it counts as dangerous driving under Section 184.

For what each offence costs, open traffic fines; pending penalties can be checked on the official portal as explained in our e-challan guide.

After the test: result, next steps and where to look

People often ask how to check license written exam result. Where the test is online, a pass lets you print the LL from Sarathi right away. If you fail, a repeat test fee applies (Rs 50 under CMVR Rule 32, plus any state charges), and you retake the test as your state allows. Your learners test application number is what you use to check status and print later.

Searches like "parivahan gov in mock test", "sarathi parivahan mock test" or "ll test online parivahan questions and answers" point to practice pages like this one; the parivahan sewa LL test whose result counts is the one you sit on Sarathi itself. After 30 days with the LL, the next step is the driving test, covered in our DL application guide and track it with DL status.