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

New York · Road test

New York road-test checklist

Road test (Class D / DJ)

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: Scored by the license examiner, whose scoring is final. The examiner also judges whether you relied on driver-assist features instead of driving the car yourself. DMV publishes no point values or error limit for the Class D test. [1, 5]

Bring to the test [1, 3]

Your physical photo learner permit
Glasses or contacts, if your permit requires corrective lenses
Original Pre-Licensing Course Certificate (MV-278); copies not accepted (not needed if you took the course online or have an MV-285 on file)
Certification of Supervised Driving (MV-262), if under 18; given to the examiner at every road test
An accompanying driver over 18 (if they drive you to the site) or over 21 (if you drive to the site) with a physical license valid for the test vehicle
A vehicle with valid registration, insurance and inspection
For a rental vehicle: the rental agreement and written permission to use it for the road test

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

Valid registration, insurance and inspection
Operates properly and is in clean condition
Doors and seat belts in good working order; passenger seat belt available and clean for the examiner
Permanent license plates on the vehicle (two plates for cars); in-transit permits not accepted
No passengers other than the accompanying driver
Adaptive cruise control and automatic parallel parking may not be used; warning systems, cameras, parking sensors, lane keeping assist and automatic emergency braking are permitted

Maneuvers the examiner scores [6, 7]

Parallel parking
Three-point turn (may be tested)

Skills checked throughout [4, 6]

Observation without relying on driver-assist features
Pulling out from a parking space

Sources

dmv.ny.gov: schedule and take a road test
dmv.ny.gov: chapter 1 driver licenses
dmv.ny.gov: rt3 (PDF)
dmv.ny.gov: chapter 13 advanced driver assistance systems adas
dmv.ny.gov: mv21 (PDF)
dmv.ny.gov: chapter 7 parallel parking
dmv.ny.gov: chapter 5 intersections and turns