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 evaluated skill has a point value; points are awarded for skills done successfully (and for skills not tested), and you pass by reaching the required point total for the class. The passing total is not published. You fail regardless of points for any dangerous-driving error listed under automatic failures. Examiners score on form MV3544 ('Class D' Skills Test), and you get a copy as your test report. [4, 7, 8] Bring to the test [3, 4, 5]- Valid instruction permit (keep it after the test so you can keep practicing)
- A person with a regular, valid driver license to come with you when you check in
- Under 18: Wisconsin Driver License Application MV3001 with the sponsorship section completed
- A registered vehicle for the license class you are testing for
- Road test appointment (scheduled online at wisconsindmv.gov/roadtest)
Vehicle check before you go [2, 3, 4, 6]- The examiner inspects the vehicle for safety defects and valid registration before the test; know how to use the horn, lights, signals, wipers, defroster, parking brake and other controls
- No test if: a brake light on either side does not work; a turn signal is missing or broken; the exhaust is defective; the windshield, a front side window or the back window is defective or missing; the driver or passenger door does not work; a required mirror is defective or missing; the speedometer or horn does not work; the brakes are defective
- No test if the headlamps, tail lamps, wipers or defroster are defective and needed for the conditions, or the tires are defective or excessively worn
- A permanently attached front seat for the examiner, and working, clean safety belts (vehicles made from 1972)
- Registered (or registration renewal applied for; expired more than 30 days with no renewal application means no test)
- You must wear your safety belt and follow safe driving practices
- Nobody other than DMV staff may ride along, including interpreters
Maneuvers the examiner scores [2, 4, 5, 9]- Y-turn
- Roadside stop and start (hill park)
- Backing
- Parking (at the DMV service center) and parking-lot driving
- Parallel parking (may be tested)
- Right turns
- Left turns
- Intersections (stopped and driving through)
- Lane changes
- Quick stop (may be tested)
Skills checked throughout [2, 3, 4, 9]- Required skill areas (all skills tests)
- Business and residential driving
- Responding to real traffic
- Knowing the vehicle controls
Automatic failures: never do these [8, 9]- A preventable crash, or hitting a fixed object or pedestrian (minor bumper contact while parking excepted)
- A dangerous act that makes another person take evasive action or makes the examiner warn you to prevent a crash
- Any moving traffic violation (for example disobeying a sign or signal, speeding, one turn from the wrong lane or two turns into the wrong lane)
- Not driving attentively
- Not looking and slowing down at an uncontrolled intersection
- An inordinate lack of ability, knowledge or skill in vehicle control, coping with the driving task or conditions, or safe driving practices
Sources- wisconsindot.gov: schedule
- docs.legis.wisconsin.gov: 06
- wisconsindot.gov: roadtestgeneral
- wisconsindot.gov: bds126 motorists handbook (PDF)
- wisconsindot.gov: bds318 road test spanish terms (PDF)
- docs.legis.wisconsin.gov: 05
- docs.legis.wisconsin.gov: 08
- docs.legis.wisconsin.gov: 13
- wisconsindot.gov: bfs d15 (PDF)
- docs.legis.wisconsin.gov: 09
- wisconsindot.gov: dmv fees
- docs.legis.wisconsin.gov: 12
- docs.legis.wisconsin.gov: 16
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