Hazard Awareness Practice Questions

Hazard awareness is the largest skills-based topic in the test. It asks you to recognise developing hazards — a ball rolling into the road, a delivery van door opening, brake lights ahead — and to understand how alcohol, drugs, medication and tiredness undermine judgement long before you feel impaired.

What the DVSA tests here

• Spotting developing hazards in photographs and acting on them in the right order
• The effects of alcohol, drugs and tiredness on judgement and reaction time
• Reading the road ahead: parked cars, crossings, school zones and junctions

Practising this topic

This section holds 78 practice questions on hazard awareness, each followed by a clear explanation of the right answer. In the real car theory test the DVSA mixes all fourteen topics into one 50-question paper with a pass mark of 43, so no single subject can be skipped. Revisit your wrong answers a day or two later — spaced repetition works far better than answering the same questions back to back.

In the run-up to test day

Most learners find that little and often beats long cramming sessions: two or three short rounds of questions a day keep the rules fresh without wearing you out. Pair this topic with the matching chapters of the Highway Code, and use hazard perception clips to watch the same ideas play out on real roads. In the final week before your booking, switch from topic practice to full mock tests so you get used to the 57-minute time limit and to questions arriving in no particular order.