Pass the Driver Knowledge Test
The road rules test that gets you your learner licence.
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Hazard perception is learned on the road, not on a screen
Learners who pass the Hazard Perception Test easily are usually the ones who have already been taught to scan ahead in real traffic. Tell us where you are up to with your log book and we will tell you what to work on next.
Sydney South Driving School teaches learners across Liverpool, Campbelltown and the Macarthur region in automatic cars, with free door-to-door pick-up.
At a glance
The Hazard Perception Test in one table
These are the rules Transport for NSW publishes for the car Hazard Perception Test.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is it? | A computer-based test of whether you recognise hazards and respond to them safely |
| What do you do? | Watch short video clips and touch the screen when you would slow down, overtake or turn |
| How many clips? | 2 practice clips, then 15 clips in the test itself |
| What are the clips about? | Common crash situations for provisional drivers |
| When can you sit it, under 25? | After holding your learner licence for at least 10 months |
| When can you sit it, 25 or older? | As soon as you have your learner licence |
| What does it cost? | $58, charged for each attempt |
| How long does a pass last? | 15 months. If you have not passed the driving test by then, you sit the Hazard Perception Test again |
| What if you fail? | You can sit it again, paying the fee for each attempt |
| Languages | English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Korean, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese, with audio versions and a free interpreter for other languages |
Where it fits
The Hazard Perception Test sits between your Ls and your Ps
NSW sets the order of tests. The Hazard Perception Test comes after your supervised driving has started and before the driving test, because it is designed to check the skill that driving experience builds.
Drive on your Ls
Learners under 25 wait at least 10 months before the Hazard Perception Test and keep logging supervised hours.
Pass the Hazard Perception Test
The pass is valid for 15 months, so the driving test must follow within that window.
Pass the driving test
The on-road test at a Service NSW centre that leads to your red P1 licence.
Preparation
How to prepare without paying for practice apps
The skill the test measures is the one supervised driving builds: looking far enough ahead to see a situation developing, and choosing to slow, wait or move before you are forced to. Learners who practise that out loud during Liverpool driving lessons usually find the clips familiar rather than tricky.
Inside the clips
What the clips are testing
Each clip asks when a safe driver would act. The test is about judgement, so the right moment is when the situation calls for it, not the instant something moves.
Slowing down
A pedestrian near the kerb, a car waiting to pull out of a driveway, or brake lights two cars ahead are the kinds of situation where a safe driver eases off before anything happens. The same habit is what a testing officer looks for when they mark responding to hazards on the driving test.
Turning and gaps
Turning clips ask whether a gap in oncoming traffic is big enough. The safe answer allows for the whole turn, not just the start of it, which is the same gap judgement that decides give-way situations on the road.
Overtaking
Overtaking clips ask whether you can pass safely with the view and space you have. A clear road ahead that ends in a crest or a bend is not a safe overtaking opportunity.
Official information
Checked 13 September 2026
Every rule on this page was checked against the NSW Government Hazard Perception Test page on 13 September 2026. Transport for NSW can change test rules, so confirm before you book.
NSW Government Hazard Perception Test information
Hazard Perception Test Hazard Perception Handbook (PDF) Book a driver licence test
Suburbs taught by Ashraf
Liverpool and surrounding areas
Every suburb below has its own page with local road detail and booking information. Pick-up and drop-off is free anywhere on this list.
View all 38 Liverpool suburbs we serve
Liverpool
Our home base. Lessons cover the 40km/h zones and pedestrian traffic around Liverpool Hospital and the Bigge Street precinct, then step up to the Hume Highway. Pick-up from Westfield Liverpool, Liverpool Station, local schools and workplaces.
Warwick Farm
The Liverpool Service NSW testing centre sits on Orange Grove Road in Warwick Farm, so this is the natural place to rehearse the decisions you will make the moment you leave the car park.
Casula
Sits on the Hume Highway south of Liverpool. Layered give-way decisions and arterial merging make it strong ground once the basics are steady.
Edmondson Park
Home to one of the region's Service NSW driver testing centres. Learners here practise on the same estate layout, roundabouts and school zones they will be assessed on.
Prestons
The structured street grid gives consistent kerb lines and bay spacing, which makes reverse parking and roundabout work far easier to repeat until it sticks.
Chipping Norton
Early control work runs on Wilby Street and Ashfordby Street, three-point turns on Derby Crescent, then a measured move into Governor Macquarie Drive traffic.
Moorebank
Newbridge Road and the M5 interchange give you genuine motorway entries and exits without travelling far from home.
Green Valley
Quiet residential roads off Cowpasture Road make an easy starting point for a first-ever lesson, with arterial traffic close by when you are ready.
Hoxton Park
Steady Cowpasture Road traffic paired with calmer surrounding estates, so a lesson can move between the two without a long drive.
Cecil Hills
Curved estate roads and real gradients here are ideal for controlled hill starts and accurate road positioning.
Cabramatta
A busy town centre with constant pedestrian movement. Lessons here sharpen observation timing and hazard awareness more than anywhere else on the Liverpool side.
Hinchinbrook
A quieter pocket that suits building a reliable routine before heavier traffic gets involved. Ashraf collects you from home, school or work.
Bonnyrigg
Lessons concentrate on low-speed control and parking repetition, then progress toward Cabramatta and central Liverpool as confidence grows.
Bonnyrigg Heights
Good ground for practising controlled stops and smooth take-offs, with the same instructor tracking your progress from one lesson to the next.
Wattle Grove
Well-planned estate streets beside Holsworthy allow steady skill building at a relaxed pace before test-route work begins.
Milperra
Henry Lawson Drive and its bridge approaches provide solid multi-lane driving and merging experience close to home.
Holsworthy
Quiet residential streets sit alongside the Heathcote Road corridor, so one lesson can cover both ends of the difficulty range.
Hammondville
A compact suburb on the Heathcote Road side of the service area, close enough to Liverpool for regular test-route practice.
Voyager Point
Quiet riverside streets stay genuinely low-pressure, which makes this a kind place for a nervous learner to take a first lesson.
Sandy Point
Narrow local roads teach careful positioning and patience with oncoming traffic, then lessons head toward Liverpool for busier conditions.
Horningsea Park
Newer estate streets suit early lessons, and test preparation is usually built around the Edmondson Park centre.
Denham Court
Open, higher-speed roads make this useful for speed management and judging safe gaps, paired with Edmondson Park test-route practice.
Austral
Newer estate streets off Craik Avenue suit a first lesson, with Bringelly Road and Camden Valley Way close by for arterial practice. Test preparation is usually built around the Edmondson Park centre.
Carnes Hill
Three environments close together: calm residential circuits, the Marketplace precinct for low-speed hazards, and Cowpasture Road for multi-lane traffic and turning lanes.
Middleton Grange
A newer estate built around roundabouts rather than cross intersections, so give-way judgement and approach speed get practised from the first lesson. Fifteenth Avenue is close by for arterial work.
Leppington
New estates beside the old semi-rural grid, so a lesson moves from quiet roundabout streets to the changing limits of Ingleburn Road. Camden Valley Way leads straight to the Edmondson Park centre.
West Hoxton
Calm residential streets inside the suburb and heavy Cowpasture Road traffic on its edge, so lessons move from first hours to test-route lane choices without a long drive.
Ashcroft
Under two kilometres from the Orange Grove Road test centre, with two school zones and Maxwells Avenue between the quiet grid and Elizabeth Drive.
Busby
A roundabout-rich residential network for give-way practice, with South Liverpool Road for busier traffic and Orange Grove Road under four kilometres away.
Cartwright
Short Place streets that suit three-point turns and kerbside stops, with Joadja Road and Hoxton Park Road for the step up to arterial traffic.
Elizabeth Hills
A new estate with one of the highest roundabout counts in the area, and Cowpasture Road beside it for arterial practice toward Liverpool.
Heckenberg
Compact Snowy Mountains-named streets either side of South Liverpool Road, with Elizabeth Drive on its edge for the step up to heavier traffic.
Lurnea
Every road type in one suburb: eighty-plus quiet streets, three school zones, Hill Road, Hoxton Park Road and the M5 on its edge.
Miller
Miller Central's car park hazards and school zones on Cabramatta and Cartwright Avenues, with Hoxton Park Road for arterial practice.
Mount Pritchard
Around a hundred residential streets for varied practice, three school zones, and Elizabeth Drive two kilometres from the Orange Grove Road centre.
Sadleir
A quiet core with no arterial road through it, edged by Cartwright, Heckenberg and Sadleir Avenues, which makes it an easy place for a first or nervous lesson.
Bardia
Ed Square and the Edmondson Park test centre sit just across Campbelltown Road, with four roundabouts along Bardia Avenue and five sets of lights onto Campbelltown Road.
Len Waters Estate
A business precinct rather than a housing estate: pick-up from work or the shops, trucks and buses on Airfield Drive, and the Westlink M7 interchange on Cowpasture Road.
Suburbs taught by George Hany
Campbelltown and Macarthur
George Hany covers every suburb below. Choose yours for local road detail, or book straight away and he will come to you.
View all 26 Campbelltown and Macarthur suburbs we serve
Campbelltown
George's home ground. Lessons start on quiet crescents, then build to Narellan Road's multi-lane intersections, the Macarthur Square approaches and the Hume Motorway interchanges.
Macquarie Fields
Has its own Service NSW driver testing centre, which makes it the natural test choice for learners in the northern Macarthur suburbs.
Ingleburn
The town centre grid handles the early work, then lessons move onto the busier Campbelltown Road corridor and its school zones.
Narellan
Narellan Road meets Camden Valley Way here, so learners get repeated practice at genuine multi-lane intersections and lane choice under pressure.
Oran Park
A modern road network of roundabouts and school zones off The Northern Road. Clear signage makes it a good place to build give-way confidence.
Camden
Historic town streets ask for slow, precise driving, while the Camden Bypass covers open-road speed management in the same lesson.
Mount Annan
Estate streets and roundabouts near the Australian Botanic Garden let beginners build early skills without traffic pressure.
Minto
A mix of industrial roads and quiet residential streets, which gives George room to vary a lesson plan without leaving the suburb.
Leumeah
Railway crossings and steady suburban traffic close to Campbelltown centre make this useful for reading the road ahead.
Glen Alpine
Elevated streets give consistent slopes for practising controlled stops and smooth hill take-offs.
St Helens Park
Another suburb with reliable gradients, so hill starts stop being the thing you dread before test day.
Ambarvale
Hilly residential streets and compact blocks suit gradient control and low-speed manoeuvres in the same session.
Woodbine
Compact residential blocks give generous kerb space for reverse parking and three-point turns.
Ruse
Quiet residential crescents make Ruse a comfortable place for the very first session: cockpit setup, moving off, stopping and mirror habits.
Raby
Looping estate streets with clear sight lines are ideal for repeating turns, kerbside stops and three-point turns until they feel automatic.
Kearns
Low-traffic crescents beside Eagle Vale help absolute beginners establish steering and pedal control before anything else.
Eagle Vale
Local shopping-centre approaches and roundabouts feature heavily, which is good preparation for the decisions examiners watch closely.
St Andrews
Local streets suit steering, road position and head-check practice, with the Campbelltown Road corridor a short step away.
Rosemeadow
Winding local roads and active school zones sharpen speed awareness and forward observation.
Currans Hill
Quiet estate roads with quick access to Narellan Road, so a lesson can step up to arterial traffic as soon as you are ready.
Gregory Hills
A newer estate with modern roundabouts, wide roads and clear signage. Plenty of space to make mistakes safely and fix them.
Harrington Park
Well-laid-out estate roads near Camden Valley Way are good for consolidating skills before test-route practice begins.
Elderslie
Sits between Camden and Narellan, mixing older street layouts with newer estate roads in a single lesson.
Camden Park
Quiet roads on the rural edge of the Macarthur region help build comfort with higher speed limits and open-road observation.
Emerald Hills
The Emerald Hills estate has modern intersections and clear signage, which makes it a forgiving place for early traffic decisions.
Willowdale
Wide streets through the Willowdale estate suit first-time learners, with Edmondson Park and Macarthur test routes both within reach.
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Frequently asked questions
Hazard Perception Test questions
Use the official links on this page to confirm current rules for your situation.
How many questions are in the NSW Hazard Perception Test?
The test is made up of 15 short video clips. Before they start you are shown 2 practice clips so you can get used to touching the screen. In each clip you touch the screen at the moment you would slow down, overtake or turn.
When can I do the Hazard Perception Test in NSW?
If you are under 25, you must have held your learner licence for at least 10 months. If you are 25 or older, you can sit it as soon as you have your learner licence.
How much is the Hazard Perception Test?
It costs $58, and the fee is charged for each attempt. If you fail, you pay $58 again when you rebook.
How long is a Hazard Perception Test pass valid for?
15 months. If you have not taken the driving test within 15 months of passing, you must sit the Hazard Perception Test again.
Do I have to pass the Hazard Perception Test before the driving test?
Yes. You must pass the Hazard Perception Test before you can sit the driving test and apply for your P1 licence.
Can I do the Hazard Perception Test in another language?
Yes. It is available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Korean, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese, with audio versions in the same languages. A free interpreter can be arranged for other languages, and staff can read and explain questions for people with reading difficulties. Call 13 22 13 to arrange this.
Are paid Hazard Perception Test practice apps worth it?
Transport for NSW says it has no connection with third-party websites offering practice tests. The free Hazard Perception Handbook and supervised driving where you name hazards out loud prepare you for the same skill without the cost.
Driving lessons
Learn to see hazards before they happen
An accredited instructor names the hazards out loud on busy Liverpool roads until you are spotting them first.
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