Study guides
Each guide answers one question properly, in plain English, and tells you what the test actually asks about it. Start with whichever you are least sure of.
- Who has right of way at a UAE junction?
At an uncontrolled junction in the UAE, priority goes to the vehicle on your left: the opposite of the rule in Europe and North America. Here is when it applies.
- Abu Dhabi road signs and what they mean
Learn the shape-and-colour system instead of memorising pictures: red triangles warn, red circles prohibit, blue circles instruct. Then unfamiliar signs still read.
- Roundabout rules in the UAE
Give way to traffic already circulating, hold your lane the whole way round, and indicate right to leave. The three rules behind most roundabout questions.
- UAE speed limits explained
Major roads run to 140 km/h, city roads are usually 80, and outside built-up areas the standard is 100, but the posted limit is never the whole answer.
- The three-second rule, and why it works
Count three seconds from a fixed point as the car ahead passes it. If you get there first, you are too close, and the gap you need grows with speed.
- When you may and may not overtake
Never at a junction, never where your view is blocked, and never across a continuous line. Plus the one situation where passing on the right is correct.
- Driving in fog in the UAE: what to do
Use dipped headlights, keep well back, and do not switch on hazard lights while you are moving. Fog causes the nose-to-tail pile-ups the UAE is known for.
- Night driving: headlights and dazzle
Dip for every oncoming vehicle, but not for pedestrians, and when you are dazzled, look to the right-hand side of the road, not the left.
- Child car seat rules in the UAE
Children under ten travel in the rear seat. A passenger needs to be at least 145 cm to be safe where an airbag can deploy. Here is the reasoning behind both.
- What to do after a traffic accident
Warn other traffic, call the right number (998 ambulance, 999 police, 997 fire) and leave the marks on the road exactly where they are.
Then test yourself
Sit a full 45-question mock: 30 minutes, 36 to pass, with a per-topic breakdown at the end showing what to revise next.