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Every Irish theory test, in one app

Pass the Irish car theory test first time

Every answer explained, mocks at the real pass mark, every road sign, and a score that tells you when you are ready to book.

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40

questions

45 min

to answer them

35 of 40

to pass (88%)

€45

official test fee

The PassDrive readiness screen: nearly there at 87%, coverage, mocks and topics as three signals, and the insight under them

Categories

Which test are you sitting?

Each category is a different exam with its own rules, its own questions and its own pass mark. Pick yours and everything else follows.

Try it

See if you would pass today

Five questions from the car test, marked as you go. The real thing is 40 of them and you need 35.

5 sample questions

1 of 5

The kind of questions the car test asks, written the way it asks them. Pick an answer and the reason appears — read it even when you were right, because that is what makes the next one easy.

What is the default speed limit on a motorway in Ireland?


Motorways carry the highest default limit in the State at 120 km/h, and that default applies only where nothing else is signed. A lower limit applies wherever it is signposted, such as through roadworks or on approaches to cities, and the signed number always overrides the default until another sign changes it.

Rules of the Road, ch. 2

What is the default speed limit on a rural local road (an L road)?


The default on rural local roads was reduced from 80 km/h to 60 km/h in February 2025, so 80 is the old answer rather than the current one. These are the narrow, often unlined roads signed with an L number, where bends, farm entrances, walkers and oncoming traffic in the middle of the road mean 60 is a maximum you will often need to stay well under.

Rules of the Road, ch. 2

What is the default speed limit on a regional road (an R road)?


Regional roads default to 80 km/h. They sit between national roads and local roads in the network, and are signed with an R number, so the mistakes to avoid are carrying the local roads' newer 60 km/h onto them or expecting the 100 km/h of a national primary road — and a signed limit beats the default in every case.

Rules of the Road, ch. 2

What is the default speed limit in a built-up area?


The built-up-area default is 50 km/h. Many councils are lowering this to 30 km/h in housing estates, town centres and outside schools by bye-law, so watch for the signs: a posted limit always overrides the default, and 50 is already too fast on a street where children step out between parked cars.

Rules of the Road, ch. 2

What is the default speed limit on a national primary road outside a built-up area?


National primary roads — the main routes between cities — default to 100 km/h. Limits on other national roads have been under review since 2025, so always go by the signs rather than a number you have memorised, and remember that 100 is a ceiling set for the road at its best: single-carriageway stretches with junctions, entrances and oncoming traffic deserve a good deal less.

Rules of the Road, ch. 2

Written by us for practice. They are not the official examination questions.No practice app has those — and the Rules of the Road is the final word on any of it.

In the app

Everything the test asks about, in one app

The website answers a question. The app gets you through the whole bank, keeps track of what you keep getting wrong, and tells you when you are ready to book.

1

Learn it once, properly

Twelve guides that explain the system behind the rules, so a sign or a limit you have never seen still makes sense.

Shape and colour as a system, not four hundred pictures to memorise

The rules people actually get wrong: alcohol limits, penalty points, motorway lanes

Free in every category, and it works with no signal

2

Practise the way you want to

Sessions you set up yourself: a topic, the ones you have never tried, or the ones you keep getting wrong.

Five questions or forty, timed or not, marked as you go or at the end

An explanation after every answer, with the Rules of the Road behind it

Say your answer out loud when your hands are busy

3

Sit mocks that match the real thing

The real question count, the real clock and the real pass mark, with nothing marked until you finish.

Twenty papers per category, the first one free

Afterwards: your score, and every wrong answer with the reason

A bar per sitting against the pass line, so you see a trend rather than a number

4

Know the signs, and know when you are ready

The full sign library, three ways to drill it, and a readiness score that says whether to book.

Every sign turns over for its meaning; quiz and flashcards on top

Three signals: enough of the bank seen, last three mocks passed, no topic left weak

A countdown to your test date with how many questions a day that leaves

Real screens

A look around

Real screens off a phone, not mock-ups — an account partway through the car bank, so the questions seen, the mistakes still to redo and the mock scores are the app's own numbers.

PassDrive app — Every exam fact, before you book

Every exam fact, before you book

PassDrive app — How ready you are, and what next

How ready you are, and what next

PassDrive app — The reason after every answer

The reason after every answer

PassDrive app — Mock scores against the pass line

Mock scores against the pass line

PassDrive app — The full sign library, turned over

The full sign library, turned over

PassDrive app — Your road to the driving test

Your road to the driving test

PassDrive app — Show me, tell me, as flashcards

Show me, tell me, as flashcards

PassDrive app — Your progress, kept on the phone

Your progress, kept on the phone