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Bus · Category D

Bus & Coach theory test

Buses and coaches, including minibuses.

100

questions

120 min

to answer them

74 of 100

to pass (74%)

€72

official test fee

D, D1, DE, D1E

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Bus mock test

A mock is only useful if it matches the real thing. Ours runs to the official category D rules — 100 questions, 2 hours, pass mark 74 out of 100 (74%) — with no feedback until the end.

What the real exam is like

You sit the category D test at a test centre on a touchscreen. There are 100 multiple-choice questions and 2 hours to answer them, which works out at roughly 72 seconds each — far more than most people need. You can flag a question and come back to it, and you can change an answer any time before you submit.

You need 74 out of 100 (74%). You get your result before you leave the centre. If you fail you can rebook, but it costs €72 again — which is the whole argument for practising until mocks are comfortable.

How to use mocks properly

  • Learn first, mock second. A mock measures; it does not teach. Work through the topic packs until the explanations stop surprising you.
  • Sit it in one go, timed. Pausing halfway turns a readiness check into another practice session.
  • Read every wrong answer afterwards. The review screen is the part that moves your score; the score itself is just the receipt.
  • Pass three in a row before you book. One pass can be a lucky draw of questions. Three is a pattern.

In the app

A mock is only worth sitting if it is sat properly.

The app runs the category D paper to the real rules and then makes the review the point, which is the half a web page cannot do.

Twenty papers dealt from the whole bank, and no question sits in two of them.
A mock exam running in PassDrive: question 1 of 40 with 44 minutes left and no feedback shown

Sit it the way you will sit the real one

100 questions and 2 hours, with the clock running and nothing marked until you are finished.

No explanation, no green tick, no hint that you have gone wrong

Flag a question and come back to it, exactly as the test centre lets you

Walk out and it does not count — same as walking out of the real thing

A pass points you on to the road: the learner permit, then lessons with an approved instructor.
The PassDrive result screen: a score ring, the totals, the pass, and a button to redo the ones you got wrong

Then go through every one you got wrong

Marked at 74 out of 100 (74%), and the screen afterwards is the part that moves your next score.

Your score, the time you took, and how far off the pass mark you were

Every wrong answer with the right one and the reason for it

Those questions land in your mistakes drill automatically

'Nearly there' turns to 'Ready' only when all three signals are in: coverage, three passes, no weak topic.
The PassDrive readiness card showing the three signals, including passing your last three mocks

Three passes in a row, then book

One pass can be a lucky draw of questions. The app watches the run, not the last result.

A bar for every sitting against the pass line, so you see a trend

Every try kept, with which paper it was and when

"Pass your last three mocks" is one of the three readiness signals

Twenty papers per category. The first is free.