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 on the DMV-DT-1 Driver Skills Test (Class E) form. Basic control skills: errors such as turn signals, head/traffic checks and tapping the curb score 1 or 2 points, climbing the curb 2 or 4; you pass with 4 points or fewer across all attempts combined. Public road test: each item on the form scores 1, 3, 5 or 10 points, and only the highest points circled in each row count. You pass with 10 points or fewer. The examiner reviews the score sheet with you back at the test center. [4] Bring to the test [1, 4, 5]- Your instruction permit (Level 1 GDL permit, or regular instruction permit if 18 or older)
- Under 18: the completed 50-hour certification form (10 hours at night) signed by a parent or guardian, or a Driver Education Card
- A test vehicle with a valid license plate and registration card
- Proof of valid insurance for the vehicle
- A valid West Virginia inspection sticker on the vehicle
- Your glasses or contacts, if your license requires them
Vehicle check before you go [4, 5]- Valid license plate, registration card, proof of insurance and a valid state inspection sticker
- Must be in safe condition and legally equipped; defects can fail the exam. The examiner may let you fix a minor defect, but you cannot switch to another vehicle the same day
- Must work: back-up lights, brake lights, turn signals, foot brake, parking/emergency brake, exhaust, hazard lights, headlights, horn, safety glass/windshield/windows, tires, tail lights, license plate light, wipers
- The driver-side window must open and close
- Not allowed: red or blue flashing lights; sirens, bells or whistles; a cutout or loud muffler; signs or stickers on the windows unless the law requires them; window tint below 35 percent light transmission; a broken or cracked windshield; holes in the body; broken lenses; doors or windows that do not work
- Any hands-free parking device must be turned off for the skills test
Maneuvers the examiner scores [4, 5, 6]- Vehicle safety check
- Parallel parking (left or right side) (may be tested)
- Three-point turnabout (may be tested)
- Forward two-point turnabout (may be tested)
- Reverse two-point turnabout (may be tested)
- Parking (non-parallel) (may be tested)
- Right and left turns
- Left turn
- Intersections
- Lane changes (may be tested)
- Curves (may be tested)
Skills checked throughout [4, 5]- Seat and mirror adjustment, hand position
- Signals, judgment and regard for pedestrians
- Urban driving
- Naming traffic signs
- Steering
- Turn signal timing
- Smooth braking
- Head checks
Automatic failures: never do these [4, 5]- Scoring excessive points on the public road test
- Not wearing your safety belt
- Using a phone or other wireless device at any time
- A moving violation: disobeying signs or signals, speeding, rolling through stops, or ignoring traffic laws
- Not yielding to pedestrians or other road users
- An avoidable crash, or touching another vehicle, an object or a pedestrian
- Any unsafe act, or making another driver take evasive action to avoid a crash
- Driving over or onto a sidewalk or curb unnecessarily
- The examiner has to take control of the vehicle
- Not wearing glasses you are required to wear
- Refusing to do any part of the road test
- Being clearly dangerously inexperienced after a short distance
- Not following a traffic control device or the examiner's lawful direction
- Being unable to find and show how to use any of the vehicle's safety equipment
- Basic control skills: accumulating excessive points
- Basic control skills: hitting, tapping or moving a cone, barrel or flag
- Jumping a curb during any part of the test
- Parallel parking: hitting a standard, relying only on the camera, or ending outside the 18-inch curb line after three attempts (marked Fail on the score sheet)
Sources- dmv.wv.gov: graduated drivers licensing gdl
- code.wvlegislature.gov: 17B 2 3a
- dmv.wv.gov: regular non gdl instruction permit
- webapps.transportation.wv.gov: Drivers Licensing Handbook (PDF)
- webapps.transportation.wv.gov: Drivers Licensing Handbook web (PDF)
- dmv.wv.gov: sample drivers test
- code.wvlegislature.gov: 17B 2 6
- code.wvlegislature.gov: 17B 2 7
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