What is on
the NYC Motor Vehicle Operator exam?

The short answer

The only exam in this line that does not lead with abilities at all. Its notice starts with the rules of the road, so the seven sections are task areas rather than cognitive abilities.

Our practice exam runs 140 questions in 164 minutes, in the order below.

What makes this title different

Route planning asks which route is LEGAL, not which is shortest — a street posted no trucks is the wrong route however direct it looks.

This is the one exam in the line you can revise for in the ordinary sense. Rules of the road are knowledge, and knowledge can be learned the night before in a way that Inductive Reasoning cannot.

What each section is asking for

Rules of the Road is the law as the DMV writes it. Defensive Driving and Safety is the habits that keep a City vehicle out of a collision report. Vehicle Readiness and Equipment Checks is what to look at before the vehicle moves. Loading, Delivery and Pickup is weight, securing a load, and what gets signed for. Written Instructions, Records and Forms is the paperwork a run generates. Planning Travel Routes is which route is legal, which is not, and why the short one often is not. Memorization is holding detail you were shown a few minutes ago and can no longer see.

None of it is a knowledge test. You do not need to arrive knowing the Vehicle and Traffic Law by heart, or the truck routes of any borough. Everything the question needs is on the page. What is being measured is whether you can use it with the clock running.

What the City publishes, and what is ours

DCAS names 7 abilities for this title, in Notice of Examination 6306. What the notice does not give is a question count or a time limit, for this title or any other. Nobody outside the City has those two numbers, so a site quoting them is quoting a guess.

The 7 sections above are the City's. The 140 questions and the 164 minutes are ours. We picked them so the practice sitting feels like the real thing, and we would rather tell you that than let you assume the City set them.