Road and Traffic Signs — free theory test practice
Signs are the largest single band in the DVSA question bank, and the one where marks are cheapest to win. Nearly every question can be answered from shape and colour alone before you have read a word: circles give orders, triangles warn, rectangles inform, and a red ring forbids while a blue circle instructs.
The questions that catch people out are the pairs that look almost the same — no entry against no vehicles, national speed limit against end of restriction, and the several variations of lane closure on a motorway gantry.
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Road and Traffic Signs
Question 1 of 102
What the DVSA tests on road and traffic signs
- Shape and colour rules for orders, warnings and information
- Regulatory signs including no entry, no waiting and weight limits
- Warning triangles for bends, junctions, crossings and gradients
- Road markings: give way lines, hatching, box junctions, edge lines
- Temporary signs at roadworks and matrix signals on motorways
Common mistakes in this topic
- Reading a blue circle as advice rather than a compulsory instruction
- Confusing the no-entry sign with the no-motor-vehicles sign
- Assuming hatched areas bordered by a broken line may never be entered
- Missing that the end-of-restriction sign returns you to the national limit, not to 30
Instructor tip: Answer from the shape first, then check the pictogram — it stops you second-guessing on the look-alike pairs.