1 . When approaching a curve during the on-road driving test, you must do all of the following, except:

Check traffic thoroughly in all directions.
Reduce your speed before entering the curve.
Keep your vehicle in its lane.
Steadily use the brakes throughout the curve.

2 . When asked to make a lane change during the skills test, you should:

Make the necessary traffic checks first.
Not use your mirrors.
Cut off other vehicles if needed to follow the instructions.
Not make the lane change if you don’t want to.

3 . Which of the following is likely to result in the most student deaths per year?

Students loading and unloading a school bus
Accidents involving drunk drivers
Accidents involving negligence
Accidents in which drivers ignore traffic signals or signs

4 . When taking the basic vehicle control skills test:

Points are deducted for each pull-up.
A driver is allowed three pull-ups per maneuver.
A pull-up will earn points only if the driver gets out of the vehicle before pulling up.
Only an excessive number of pull-ups will be counted as errors.

5 . Failing to exit your vehicle properly during an exercise in the basic vehicle control skills test will result in:

Failure of only that exercise.
A reset of that exercise.
Automatic failure of the basic vehicle control skills test.
An extra point against your score.

6 . Before evacuating a bus in response to a hazard, a driver should:

Ask the students if they want to leave.
Explain the hazard to the dispatcher and make a decision on how to respond.
Tell students to panic.
Have students open all the windows.

7 . When should a bus start moving after students have boarded?

As soon as the students are through the door
When the students are near their seats but are still standing
When the students are seated and looking forward
As soon as the students cross the standee line

8 . During the pre-trip vehicle inspection test:

Applicants will not have to identify the ABS.
Windshield wipers are not to be addressed.
Shock absorbers only need to be checked on one axle.
The steering box should be checked for leaks.

9 . If your bus has a manual transmission, you should never ____ while crossing railroad tracks.

Change gears
Use the brakes
Look both ways
Listen to flaggers

10 . After traveling under an overpass during the driving skills test, you may be asked to recall:

The posted clearance.
The posted weight limit.
The width of the opening.
If there was a shoulder near the roadway.

11 . If asked to sight-side back your vehicle into an alley, you should first:

Pull directly into the alley parking space.
Turn your vehicle to the right to position yourself directly in front of the alley.
Pull past the alley and stop perpendicular to the outer boundary.
Pull past the alley and stop parallel to the outer boundary.
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12 . When alley docking, your vehicle should be parked:

With the front bumper on top of the front boundary line.
With the rear wheels over the rear boundary line.
Straight within the boundaries of the parking space.
At an angle within the boundaries of the parking space.

13 . If you miss a student’s stop while bringing students home after school, you should:

Back up to the stop.
Follow locally established procedures.
Not worry about the student.
Stop quickly and let them exit.

14 . During the on-road driving test, you should:

Develop your own route to show off your driving skills.
Listen to directions from the examiner.
Bring a passenger to ride with you.
Drive in an unsafe manner.

15 . Before operating a school bus, ____ should be checked.

The left mirror
The right mirror
All mirrors
The inside mirror

16 . There are blind spots ____ left and right side flat mirrors.

Immediately below
In the middle of
Above
To the left of

17 . If a student drops an item near a stopped bus, they should:

Hurry and pick up the item.
Leave the item behind.
Ask the driver to pick up the object.
Have another student pick it up.

18 . When performing the stop/start maneuver as a part of the skills test, you should:

Cut off other vehicles if needed to get onto the shoulder.
Not use any turn signals.
Slam on the brakes to stop as quickly as possible.
Decelerate smoothly.

19 . During a basic vehicle control skills test, you may be asked to:

Parallel park.
Inspect your tires.
Monitor your gauges.
Pull forward into a parking space.

20 . Your vehicle's final position should be:

Exactly where the examiner has instructed it to be.
Within five feet of the final position described by the examiner.
Wherever you can safely park.
Within two feet of the final position described by the examiner.