Nebraska 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: Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles and Nebraska law, sources numbered below · Checked October 4, 2026 · Printed Oct 12, 2026 · drivingtestpal.com/nebraska/study-sheets/road-test-checklist/

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Nebraska road-test checklist

Drive test (Class O)

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: Each error is a check mark (mark) on the examiner's tablet. Minor general-driving errors count 2 marks and major ones 8 marks. A passing score is 15 marks or less; more than 15 fails. Any automatic-failure item fails and ends the test. [4]

Bring to the test [2]

A vehicle you provide that is representative of the license class
If retesting, the Return for Services form you were given

Vehicle check before you go [1, 2, 3, 4]

Good mechanical condition with working brake lights
1964 or later: clean, working passenger seat belt for the examiner
1973 or later: clean, working driver and passenger seat belts
Working speedometer
Clean interior
Not an autocycle
Only the examiner and the applicant ride in the car

Maneuvers the examiner scores [4]

Entering and starting
Backing (from a parking space)
Angle, parallel or perpendicular parking
Left turns (three scored)
Right turns (three scored)
Intersections (two stop, two through)
Lane changes (urban business street)

Skills checked throughout [2, 4]

Urban driving
Handbook list of test maneuvers

Automatic failures: never do these [4]

Avoidable accident or incident
Speeding 6 mph or more over the limit
Improper vehicle
Failure to wear seat belt
Stalling in an intersection due to inexperience or lack of skill
Serious moving traffic violation or disobeying signs or signals
Turning from the wrong lane
Driving left of center
Unsafe behavior
Poor control of the vehicle
Miscellaneous (examiner's judgment)
Driving over a curb or sidewalk

Sources

dmv.nebraska.gov: driver license
dmv.nebraska.gov: Class O Drivers Manual English 1 2025 (PDF)
dmv.nebraska.gov: what do you need take driving test
dmv.nebraska.gov: DLE Policies and Procedures Manual (PDF)