Louisiana Road Test Checklist 2026 (Free Printable)

Study sheet for before your test. Notes aren’t allowed in the DMV test room. Every state bans notes, phones and printouts during the knowledge test, in person and online.

Study sheet for before your test. Notes aren’t allowed in the DMV test room.
Source: Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (Department of Public Safety and Corrections) and Louisiana law, sources numbered below · Checked October 4, 2026 · Printed Oct 12, 2026 · drivingtestpal.com/louisiana/study-sheets/road-test-checklist/

Louisiana · Road test

Louisiana road-test checklist

Road skills (driving) test

Tick each box during practice drives in the weeks before your test. The numbers in brackets are the sources listed at the bottom.

How it’s scored: Every applicant starts with 100 points and points are deducted for driving errors; 80 points or better passes (the handbook says 80% accuracy). The examiner rates six operational skills: observing, communicating, speed adjustment, vehicle positioning, time and space judgment, and hazard perception. The point value of each error is not published. [1, 4]

Bring to the test [1, 3, 4, 5]

Temporary Instructional Permit (TIP) or learner's permit
Proof of identity and the completed OMV test history form
A parent or legal guardian, with their ID, if you are under 18 (they sign the consent and disclosure forms)
Proof of liability insurance on the test vehicle
Vehicle registration (when the OMV gives the test in your vehicle)

Vehicle check before you go [4, 6]

Valid liability insurance, license plate and inspection sticker
Working brake lights, tail lights, headlights and front and rear turn signals
Inside and outside mirrors, windshield and wipers, horn
Safe tires (bald tires are unsafe)
Doors that open from inside and outside
Working speedometer (checked after the test begins)
Steering wheel without excessive play
Functional seat belts (vehicles made after 1964)
Loose objects removed from the vehicle
Only the applicant, examiner and an interpreter (if needed) in the vehicle

Maneuvers the examiner scores [1, 4, 7]

Parking maneuver (parking between cars)
Three-point turn
Into and out of a parking space
Left turns (three, one onto a multi-lane road)
Right turns (three, one onto a multi-lane road)
Lane changes (two)
Stop signs, traffic lights and straight-through intersections
Railroad crossing (if on the route) (may be tested)
Vehicle safety equipment check

Skills checked throughout [1, 4, 7]

Graded driving skills
Operational skills
Observation at intersections and lane changes
Following directions and posted limits

Automatic failures: never do these [1, 4]

Any traffic law violation
Any dangerous action or incident
Lack of cooperation or refusing to follow instructions
Collision
Too many minor mistakes added together (score below 80)
The examiner has to use the dual brake, for any reason

Sources

public.powerdms.com: 411349
expresslane.la.gov: new licenses
expresslane.la.gov: student parent information
public.powerdms.com: 347039
expresslane.la.gov: upgrading to a class e intermediate license
public.powerdms.com: 414807
public.powerdms.com: 1006237
public.powerdms.com: 414804