About the road signs test
- 25 questionsIn each signs practice test
- 20 to pass80% pass mark
- 127 questionsIn the practice bank, no repeats until you've seen them all
- 76 signsDrawn and explained below
On the real British Columbia test, sign and rules questions are mixed in one 50-question test (40 correct to pass). This page lets you practise the signs on their own; the full test on the main page is mixed like the real one.
Sample questions
Tap a question to see the answer and why.
If the tab under a school zone sign shows only a speed limit, that limit is in effect:
- From 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day
- From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days
- From dawn to dusk every day
- Only when children are on the road
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days
If the tab shows hours too, those hours apply.
The number on a white maximum speed sign is the highest legal speed when:
- It is daylight, whatever the weather is doing
- The road is bare and dry and visibility is good
- There is no other traffic anywhere around you
- You are in the middle of passing another vehicle
The road is bare and dry and visibility is good
In poor conditions, a slower speed is needed.
This sign means:
- A detour loop
- A roundabout ahead
- A traffic circle closed
- U-turns allowed
A roundabout ahead
Slow down and get into the correct lane before entering.
This sign means:
- A quarry entrance is just ahead
- A rough road surface ahead
- Loose gravel on the road ahead
- Watch for rocks on the road ahead
Watch for rocks on the road ahead
Rocks may be on the road.
This sign means:
- A dead end ahead
- A detour ahead
- One-way to the right
- Trucks turn right
A detour ahead
Follow the detour route.
A sign with a diamond and a bus means the lane is for:
- Buses and any car with two people
- Buses only, and sometimes cyclists
- Taxis and limousines only
- Trucks and buses only
Buses only, and sometimes cyclists
Vanpools (six or more people) may also use it if a "Vanpool Permitted" tab is shown.
This sign means:
- Keep right unless you are passing
- Passing is not allowed on this road
- The left lane is closed up ahead
- You may pass only on the right side
Keep right unless you are passing
Use the left lane only to pass.
HOV lanes are marked with:
- A double solid yellow line on both sides of the lane
- Green paint across the whole width of the lane
- Thick solid or broken lines and white diamond symbols
- Yellow zigzag lines painted along the curb edge
Thick solid or broken lines and white diamond symbols
Additional signs show which vehicles are allowed.
All 76 signs in the British Columbia bank
Every sign drawing used in the practice questions, with what it means. Drawings are simplified; always check the official handbook.
- Stop completely, and continue only when it is safe
- Give the right-of-way to other vehicles and crossing pedestrians
- Yield to pedestrians and follow any crossing guard
- Yellow and diamond-shaped
- Stay off the shoulder
- Stop, then proceed when it is safe
- A railway crossing ahead; be prepared to stop
- Do not enter
- No stopping from this sign to the next no-stopping sign
- A curve ahead; slow down
- A stop sign ahead
- Signal lights ahead
- Two-way traffic ahead
- Merging traffic ahead
- Do not drive in this lane
- You may drive in this lane
- Kilometres
- The road is bare and dry and visibility is good
- Slow to the advisory speed shown for the curve
- One way: traffic goes only in the direction of the arrow
- Two-way traffic; keep right unless passing
- Keep right of the divider
- A lower speed limit is ahead
- Do not pass
- Parking is allowed, with any limits shown
- Turn left only
- Continue straight only
- Go through or turn left
- Go through or turn right
- Turn into the lane next to it, unless you may use the reserved lane
- Cyclists may be on the roadway
- Turn right or left only; you may not go straight
- No right turn on a red light; wait for green
- The divided highway ends ahead; keep right
- The road may be slippery ahead
- A bump or rough road ahead
- A steep hill ahead; slow down
- A railway crossing on a side road ahead
- The road narrows ahead
- The right lane ends ahead
- A winding road ahead
- A road merges, and an added lane begins on the right
- A playground is nearby; be prepared to slow down
- A pedestrian crosswalk ahead
- A school bus stop ahead
- Obstructions near or in the road
- A traffic-control person ahead
- A survey crew is ahead; obey the posted speed limit
- A crew is working; obey the posted speed limit
- Stop, then continue only when it is safe
- Stop before the intersection unless you can't stop safely
- Continue if the intersection is clear
- Turn in the direction of the arrow
- A flashing orange hand
- From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days
- A hospital nearby
- Watch for deer ahead
- A narrow structure, often a bridge, is ahead
- Pavement ends ahead
- A truck crossing or entrance ahead
- Gas is available ahead
- Accommodation ahead
- Must turn left
- Buses only, and sometimes cyclists
- Prepare to stop for the signal lights ahead
- The signal is about to change; stop unless you can't do it safely
- Prepare to stop if the light is flashing
- Keep right unless you are passing
- Drivers going slower than traffic must move to the right lane
- No bicycle riding beyond this point
- Watch for rocks on the road ahead
- A roundabout ahead
- A detour ahead
- Follow the lighted arrow
- Only buses may go on this signal
- Treat the intersection like a four-way stop
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