NJ DEFENSIVE DRIVING TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Turns: 1-way street into a 1-way street, T-Intersections, 1-way into 2-way street -
✔✔A right turn from a one-way street into a one-way street is also shown. After starting
your turn in the far-right lane, you can use any lane open to traffic, if it's safe to do so.
Sometimes signs or pavement markings will let you turn right from a lane next to the far-
right lane. Always read the signs that tell you what turns are permitted for that
intersection.
T-intersection from a one-way street into a two-way street. Through traffic has the right-
of-way. You can turn either right or left from the center lane.
✔✔Center Turning Lane - ✔✔If a street has a left turn center lane, you must use it when
you turn left.
The two-way left turn lane may not be used to pass another vehicle.
Driving in the two-way left turn lane for more than 200 feet is prohibited.
You may use the two-way left turn lane to make a U-turn if permitted and safe. Watch
for drivers entering the center turn lane from the other direction.
✔✔To turn left from the street: - ✔✔Drive completely inside the center left turn lane.
Don't stop part way into the lane with the rear of your vehicle blocking traffic. Turn only
when it's safe. Look for vehicles coming head-on towards you in the same lane as they
start to make their left turns.
✔✔Turning left from a side street or driveway: - ✔✔Wait until it's safe, and then drive
into the center left turn lane. Signal before moving into regular traffic. Enter traffic only
when it's safe. You may drive across a center left turn lane.
✔✔Red sign - ✔✔Stop or prohibited
✔✔Green sign - ✔✔Movement permitted/direction guidance
✔✔Yellow sign - ✔✔General Warning
✔✔Blue sign - ✔✔Travelers services, Hospitals, Evacuation Routes
✔✔Black sign - ✔✔Regulation
✔✔White sign - ✔✔Regulation
✔✔Orange sign - ✔✔Construction/maintenance warning
, ✔✔Brown sign - ✔✔Public Recreation & Scenic points of interest
✔✔Octogon - ✔✔Exclusively STOP
✔✔Horizontal Rectangle - ✔✔Generally for Guide signs
✔✔Equilateral Triangle - ✔✔Yield signs
✔✔Pennant - ✔✔Advanced warning of "No Passing Zone"
✔✔Diamond - ✔✔Existing or possible hazards
✔✔Vertical Rectangle - ✔✔Regulatory signs - Speed limit or No Parking
✔✔Pentagon - ✔✔School or school crossing
✔✔Round - ✔✔Railroad advanced warning crossing
✔✔Trapezoid - ✔✔Recreational area guides or National Forest route marker
✔✔Backing your car - ✔✔Check behind the car BEFORE you get in. Children, pets and
small objects are hard to see from the driver's seat. Physically turn around and look
over your right shoulder (look over your left shoulder too). Use your mirrors to assist
you, but never rely solely on them. Move slowly and avoid sharp turns or sudden
movements of the steering wheel. Use special care if you must back around a visually
blind corner
✔✔Passing - ✔✔At hwy speeds of 50-70 mph, you need a 10-12 second gap in
oncoming traffic to pass safely.
✔✔Multi-lane, 2-way road w/center left-turn lane - ✔✔A center left turn lane is located in
the middle of a two-way street marked on both sides by two painted lines. The inner line
is broken, and the outer line is solid. If a street has a center left turn lane, you must use
it to prepare for or make a left turn or to prepare for or make a permitted U-turn. You
may only drive for 200 feet in the center left turn lane. This lane is not a regular traffic
lane or a passing lane
✔✔Solid yellow line on each side of road - ✔✔you may cross these lines when:
Turning left at an intersection.
Turning into or out of a private road or driveway. The lines are broken in an HOV
(carpool) lane. Instructed by construction or other signs to drive on the other side of the
road because your side of the road is closed or blocked
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Turns: 1-way street into a 1-way street, T-Intersections, 1-way into 2-way street -
✔✔A right turn from a one-way street into a one-way street is also shown. After starting
your turn in the far-right lane, you can use any lane open to traffic, if it's safe to do so.
Sometimes signs or pavement markings will let you turn right from a lane next to the far-
right lane. Always read the signs that tell you what turns are permitted for that
intersection.
T-intersection from a one-way street into a two-way street. Through traffic has the right-
of-way. You can turn either right or left from the center lane.
✔✔Center Turning Lane - ✔✔If a street has a left turn center lane, you must use it when
you turn left.
The two-way left turn lane may not be used to pass another vehicle.
Driving in the two-way left turn lane for more than 200 feet is prohibited.
You may use the two-way left turn lane to make a U-turn if permitted and safe. Watch
for drivers entering the center turn lane from the other direction.
✔✔To turn left from the street: - ✔✔Drive completely inside the center left turn lane.
Don't stop part way into the lane with the rear of your vehicle blocking traffic. Turn only
when it's safe. Look for vehicles coming head-on towards you in the same lane as they
start to make their left turns.
✔✔Turning left from a side street or driveway: - ✔✔Wait until it's safe, and then drive
into the center left turn lane. Signal before moving into regular traffic. Enter traffic only
when it's safe. You may drive across a center left turn lane.
✔✔Red sign - ✔✔Stop or prohibited
✔✔Green sign - ✔✔Movement permitted/direction guidance
✔✔Yellow sign - ✔✔General Warning
✔✔Blue sign - ✔✔Travelers services, Hospitals, Evacuation Routes
✔✔Black sign - ✔✔Regulation
✔✔White sign - ✔✔Regulation
✔✔Orange sign - ✔✔Construction/maintenance warning
, ✔✔Brown sign - ✔✔Public Recreation & Scenic points of interest
✔✔Octogon - ✔✔Exclusively STOP
✔✔Horizontal Rectangle - ✔✔Generally for Guide signs
✔✔Equilateral Triangle - ✔✔Yield signs
✔✔Pennant - ✔✔Advanced warning of "No Passing Zone"
✔✔Diamond - ✔✔Existing or possible hazards
✔✔Vertical Rectangle - ✔✔Regulatory signs - Speed limit or No Parking
✔✔Pentagon - ✔✔School or school crossing
✔✔Round - ✔✔Railroad advanced warning crossing
✔✔Trapezoid - ✔✔Recreational area guides or National Forest route marker
✔✔Backing your car - ✔✔Check behind the car BEFORE you get in. Children, pets and
small objects are hard to see from the driver's seat. Physically turn around and look
over your right shoulder (look over your left shoulder too). Use your mirrors to assist
you, but never rely solely on them. Move slowly and avoid sharp turns or sudden
movements of the steering wheel. Use special care if you must back around a visually
blind corner
✔✔Passing - ✔✔At hwy speeds of 50-70 mph, you need a 10-12 second gap in
oncoming traffic to pass safely.
✔✔Multi-lane, 2-way road w/center left-turn lane - ✔✔A center left turn lane is located in
the middle of a two-way street marked on both sides by two painted lines. The inner line
is broken, and the outer line is solid. If a street has a center left turn lane, you must use
it to prepare for or make a left turn or to prepare for or make a permitted U-turn. You
may only drive for 200 feet in the center left turn lane. This lane is not a regular traffic
lane or a passing lane
✔✔Solid yellow line on each side of road - ✔✔you may cross these lines when:
Turning left at an intersection.
Turning into or out of a private road or driveway. The lines are broken in an HOV
(carpool) lane. Instructed by construction or other signs to drive on the other side of the
road because your side of the road is closed or blocked
