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DVSA-style practice question · 2024/2025 Updates ## The answer options - By blue signs with a phone symbol**Correct** - By red and white chevrons - By green marker posts - By yellow hatched markings ## Why that is the answer Emergency refuge areas are identified by blue signs with a phone symbol and are located at regular intervals on smart motorways. ## How this comes up in the real test Questions from 2024/2025 updates appear throughout the 50-question multiple-choice section, and the wording changes between versions. Learn the rule rather than the sentence: the DVSA can ask the same point from the opposite direction, and a memorised answer falls over the moment the phrasing moves. The pass mark is 43 out of 50, so seven wrong answers is your entire margin. If a whole category is shaky, run the topic practice below until you are getting every question right for the right reason, then go back to full mocks under the clock. 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