Taiwan Driving Test Free question bank & licence guide

Car licence guide

The whole Taiwan car licence process, step by step. The learner permit, the self-study route that skips the roughly NT$13,000 driving school, the fees, and exam day.

  1. Which route is yours?

    Your path depends on whether you already hold a driving licence that Taiwan accepts.

    • Foreigners: register in person at a Motor Vehicles Supervision Station (監理站) and pick your exam date. An ARC or Gold Card works as ID.
    • With an exchangeable foreign licence: physical exam → vision test → registration → knowledge test → driving test.
    • Check your country first at taiwandrivingtest.com/licence-check: it shows whether your car or scooter licence converts without exams.
    • Without one, a car does NOT require a driving school. You hold a learner permit (學習駕駛證) for 3 months and then sit the test. A driving school (駕訓班) is optional, it only swaps those 3 months for a course of at least 5 weeks.

  2. Medical check (before exam day)

    Minimum age is 18. Do the medical at an authorised clinic a few days before, or on exam day at the Motor Vehicles Office if it has a clinic on site.

    • ARC (Alien Residence Certificate), Gold Card, or Taiwan ID. The ARC needs 6 months of total validity, not 6 months remaining, so even its last day works.
    • Application form (provided at the Motor Vehicles Office, 監理站)
    • Physical exam at the clinic, takes about 5 minutes, costs around NT$200, no health card needed. The car adds a vision-field test; the scooter is exempt from it.
    • Bring 2 one-inch (passport-style) photos for the clinic, and keep 1 more for exam day.

  3. Book your exam slot

    Book your test slot in advance on the official 監理服務網 site. Booking is online only, so do not count on registering at the counter on the day.

    • Then book at 監理服務網 → 考照預約報名 (mvdis.gov.tw), choosing licence type, date and 監理站.
    • Say which language you need when you register. The written test has an audio service in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, English, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Burmese, Thai and Khmer, but only if you ask for it. Say nothing and you sit it in Mandarin.
    • If you train at a 駕訓班, the school usually books the test for you, so ask them first.
    • Booking opens 30 days before the test date and closes at 24:00 three days before, so the last two days before the test are already too late. New places are released every morning at 08:00.
    • If you cannot go, cancel online or call the station. Missing a test you did not cancel blocks you from booking for 15 days, then 30, then 60.
    • The monitoring service line is 0800-231035 if anything goes wrong with the booking.

  4. Practice

    Practise the written bank in this app. For the track and road test, practise with your learner permit on a practice ground, or at a driving school if you chose one.

    • Written exam: 50 questions, 30 minutes, you need 85% to pass.
    • The questions in this app are the official bank, the same ones come up in the real exam.
    • There is also a free official online simulator to rehearse the exact exam screen.
    • A driving school (駕訓班) waives the 3 months. The legal minimum course is 5 weeks and 56 hours; the government's own school charges NT$13,650 all in and takes 7 weeks. Private prices are filed with the office, so ask for the 簡章.
    • Self-training is the free route. The learner permit costs NT$100 (NT$50 electronic), lasts 1 year, and you must hold it 3 months. It is for a practice ground, or a designated learning road at the designated times with a licensed driver of that class beside you.
    • Since 30 June 2026 the car written exam has no true/false questions. It is 50 multiple-choice questions, and a few of them are hazard-perception video questions.

  5. Fees (bring cash)

    Pay at the Motor Vehicles Office (監理站). Bring cash, card is usually not accepted.

    • Full test (all items): around NT$450.
    • Re-test of a single failed item within 1 year: NT$225.
    • Plus the licence card fee (NT$200), your clinic medical, and fuel for the practical: 4 litres of 95 for the circuit and 4 more for the road test. Bring your own car (wheelbase over 230cm) and the circuit fuel is waived.
    • Your results stay valid for 1 year, finish everything within that window.

  6. Exam day, what happens when

    Everything is done on the same day, in order. You must pass the written test first; only then do you go to the practical test.

    • Sessions usually start at 08:00 or 13:00. Arrive well before yours, latecomers can be turned away. Bring your documents, 1 one-inch photo, and cash.
    • Only some Motor Vehicles Offices run the tests. In Taipei it is the Shilin station (士林監理站), not the central office, so check the address on your booking.
    • The written test is on a touchscreen, not on paper. Pick your language on the first screen, English is 英文.
    • 1) Written test, 50 questions, 30 min. You need 85% to pass.
    • 2) Practical test the same day: track test, then road test on public streets.
    • If you fail, you can re-take just the failed item within 1 year (NT$225), you keep what you passed.

  7. The practical (driving) test

    Done at the Motor Vehicles Office (監理站) circuit and on real roads. Each part is scored out of 100 and you need 70 to pass each. The car sits behind sensors that auto-score the track.

    • Track test, seven items. Reverse into the bay, the pedestrian crossing (new since 31 March 2026), parallel parking, the S-curve forward and back, the railway crossing, a 45 metre gear-change lane and the up-and-down slope. 曲巷調頭 does not apply to an ordinary small car.
    • Road test, a separate exam on public streets with its own scoring sheet, its own 100 points and its own 70 to pass.
    • Since 31 March 2026 the circuit sheet says 檢查視野死角, check the blind spot. Turn your head, not just your eyes to the mirror, before moving off, at the railway crossing and before every turn or lane change. Skipping it is 32 points, and one 32 is a fail.
    • The heaviest deductions are not the manoeuvres. Not walking round the car first, no seatbelt, no indicator and no head check before moving off are 32 points each, before the car has moved.

  8. Get your licence

    Pass the written test first and then the practical one, and the licence is printed the same day at the office, once you pay the card fee at the counter.

    • Licence card fee: NT$200 in cash, paid when you collect the card. It is not part of the exam fee you already paid.
    • Keep it valid and renew on time.
    • You can later add other vehicle categories.

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Source: Directorate General of Highways (公路局) & Taipei Motor Vehicles Office, 2026. Verify details locally.