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Speed questions — B licence
331 exam-style Speed questions for the B licence with correct answer and explanation. Practice free, no signup.
- A dual-purpose vehicle, without a trailer or special transport operation, travels on a motorway with no lower specific limit. What is its general maximum speed?
- As a general limit, with no lower restriction, what is the maximum speed for a passenger car towing a trailer on an unpaved road outside built-up areas?
- On a conventional road outside built-up areas, without physical separation of directions or another restriction, a passenger car has a general limit of 90 km/h. With no reason justifying a lower speed, what is its minimum speed?
- On a road with loose gravel, which risk increases as tyre-to-road grip decreases?
- In a passenger car with a manual gearbox and mechanical parking brake, the service brakes fail and pumping the pedal does not restore braking. Which action may help reduce speed?
- With no reason justifying a lower speed, what is the minimum speed for a motor vehicle on a motorway or dual-carriageway motorway?
- A car travels on a motorway with a 100 km/h limit, with no justified reason requiring a lower speed. What is the general minimum speed?
- The braking distance of a passenger car or other vehicle covered by a B licence:
- During a very tight low-speed turn on a two-wheel motorcycle, which action should you avoid?
- A car towing a trailer travels on a dual carriageway outside a built-up area, without special or dangerous-goods transport. With no lower specific limit, what is its general maximum speed?
- With no specific speed-limit sign or other applicable lower limit, what is the general maximum speed for a car without a trailer on a motorway within a built-up area?
- Outside a built-up area, what is the general limit for a special vehicle with brake signalling, without a trailer and not meeting the conditions for travelling at 70 km/h?
- What precaution must every driver take to reduce the risk of hitting a pedestrian?
- Which motorcycles must have at least two rear-view mirrors, one on each side, fitted in order to be used on the road?
- This sign indicates the end of the speed...
- What is the general maximum speed for a light quadricycle on roads outside built-up areas?
- Which speed refers to a precise moment?
- On a conventional road without physical separation between directions or specific speed signs, what is the general limit for a motorcycle?
- Outside built-up areas, what is the general speed limit for a special vehicle without brake signalling?
- On a motorway passing through an urban area, what is the maximum speed a car may travel if there is no signage?
- What is the order of influence of risk factors in most accidents?
- May a limit below the general limit be set on an urban road or a built-up through-road with specific signs and the applicable procedure?
- A vehicle observes the maximum limit, but in which case is its speed still inappropriate for the circumstances?
- You approach a movable bridge open to traffic, with no instruction requiring a stop. How should you drive as you approach?
- On a conventional road outside a built-up area with no physical separation between directions or signs modifying the generic limit, what maximum speed may a car reach when overtaking another car?
- When driving a manual-transmission car, a good technique for taking a bend in normal conditions is...
- How can the risk of encountering hazards while driving be reduced?
- If using the horn to warn a cyclist is justified under the rules, how should you do so to avoid startling them?
- What is the generic maximum speed limit for a 125 cm³ motorcycle on a motorway outside a built-up area, with no signs or specific conditions lowering it?
- Outside a built-up area, a special vehicle has brake signals, does not tow a trailer, is not a motor cultivator and does not qualify for the 70 km/h case. With no lower limit, what is its generic maximum?
- When approaching a place with reduced visibility, what precautions should be taken?
- If a driver is dazzled by another vehicle travelling in the opposite direction, they should...
- Outside a built-up area, on a paved dual carriageway with no applicable lower limit, what is the generic maximum for a car without a trailer?
- On a paved road outside built-up areas, other than a motorway or dual carriageway, with a generic maximum of 90 km/h for a car without a trailer, what is its general minimum without a justified reason to drive more slowly?
- What prescribed term describes driving below the applicable general minimum without a justified reason?
- Why does crosswind represent a real danger to driving safety?
- Which of these names is not a specific prescribed speed category or indication?
- When approaching a movable bridge, what should you do?
- A car is using an additional temporary lane opened under Article 42, with no applicable lower limit. What is its maximum speed?
- What does the vertical sign indicating a recommended speed range show?
- In ordinary driving, which vehicles may exceed a conventional road’s generic maximum speed solely because they are overtaking?
- What is the generic speed limit for a motorcycle on a Spanish travesía, with no sign establishing a lower limit?
- If speed increases while reaction time stays the same, what happens to reaction distance?
- While still driving, including while stopped at a traffic light, may you hold or manually operate a mobile phone?
- On a wet road, spray from a lorry reduces your visibility. What precaution should you take?
- Besides obeying speed limits, what characterises an appropriate speed?
- If you enter a left-hand bend too fast and there is insufficient grip to follow it, towards which side do you tend to depart from the intended path?
- On a through-road, an R-301 sign sets a 40 km/h limit applying to your car. What is the maximum permitted speed on that section?
- When there are children near the road who want to cross...
- With the same vehicle, road surface and grip conditions, at which speed should you begin braking earlier to stop for the same obstacle?
- After another vehicle starts overtaking you, a dangerous situation develops. As a general rule, what should you do about your speed?
- Riding a motorcycle in heavy rain requires you to...
- On an urban road with two or more lanes per direction, excluding reserved lanes, with no different signed limit and outside an autopista or autovía, what is the general limit for a car?
- With reaction time, grip and braking capability unchanged, what happens when speed increases?
- May the authorities raise the general 80 km/h limit on an autopista or autovía within a built-up area?
- While you are being overtaken, danger arises and reducing your speed helps the manoeuvre finish without increasing danger. Must you reduce it?
- With the same vehicle, grip and reaction time, what happens to the distance needed to stop if initial speed increases?
- An ordinary van not carrying dangerous goods travels outside a built-up area on a conventional road without physical separation of directions. With no lower specific limit, what is its general maximum speed?
- How many mirrors are compulsory on a motorcycle with a maximum speed above 100 km/h?
- With a side wind and a passenger car or other vehicle covered by a B licence, the prudent action is to:
- Are brakes an active safety device?
- What is the purpose of the acceleration lane?
- A motorcycle legally tows a trailer outside built-up areas, by day and with good visibility. What reduction applies to the motorcycle’s general maximum speeds?
- Without specific speed signs or special vehicle restrictions, what is the general limit for a car on a through-road in a built-up area (travesía)?
- On a level icy stretch, driving a manual-transmission car, which action helps reduce the risk of skidding?
- When joining a road via an acceleration lane, at what point must you make sure that you can carry out the manoeuvre safely?
- This sign indicates the point from which a previous sign for... no longer applies.
- Outside a built-up area, you drive a car towing a trailer on a conventional road with physical separation between directions and a general 100 km/h sign. With no other applicable limit, what is the maximum for your combination?
- What is the general motorway limit outside a built-up area for a bus fitted with seat belts, carrying seated passengers, with no school transport or other lower limit?
- This sign indicates the point from which...
- You anticipate that traffic will require a substantial reduction in speed and can warn in advance without compromising control. How should you warn following drivers?
- Under current rules, may a car exceed the permitted maximum speed on a conventional road merely because it is overtaking?
- By how many km/h will the maximum motorway speed be reduced for school transport vehicles?
- A motorcycle without a trailer travels on a dual carriageway outside a built-up area, with no lower specific limit or special circumstances. What is its general maximum speed?
- Driving in a lane designated for travel in the opposite direction to the usual one…
- If speed increases while reaction time and braking conditions remain unchanged, stopping distance...
- Under Annex III of the General Vehicle Regulations, which exterior mirrors are required on motorcycles according to their maximum design speed?
- If speed increases while reaction time remains unchanged, what happens to the distance travelled before braking begins?
- Outside a built-up area, may a motorcycle tow a trailer or semi-trailer if its technical configuration permits it?
- Can driving below the minimum permitted speed be a risk?
- On a dual carriageway, can a car exceed the maximum permitted speed in order to overtake?
- On a motorway that runs through an urban area, what is the maximum speed at which a car may travel if there is no signage?
- What is the general maximum speed for a car towing a trailer on a conventional road outside a built-up area, with no applicable lower limit?
- On a long downhill stretch with a passenger car or other vehicle covered by a B licence, it is advisable to:
- With other conditions unchanged, which change requires increasing the gap in metres needed to stop without colliding with the vehicle ahead?
- What is the general maximum speed for a van up to 3,500 kg on a motorway outside a built-up area, without a trailer or special transport and with no applicable lower limits?
- If you are riding a motorcycle, what lateral separation should you maintain when meeting another vehicle?
- When overtaking another car with a car on an urban road, what lateral safety margin must you leave?
- One of the causes of fatigue while driving is...
- A lorry with a 3,500 kg MAM travels on a conventional road outside a built-up area with physically separated directions. With no special or dangerous-goods transport and no applicable lower limits, what is its general maximum speed?
- There's a crosswind blowing. What should you do?
- On a road with roadworks and loose gravel, which measure helps reduce the risk of stones hitting the windscreen?
- On a conventional-road section with a currently applicable specific limit of 70 km/h, the vehicle ahead travels at 70 km/h. May you overtake it by increasing your speed above that limit?
- You drive a car on a dual carriageway on a section where a 100 km/h maximum-speed sign is currently applicable. May you exceed that speed?
- A car without a trailer travels on a paved conventional road outside a built-up area, with no physical separation of directions or different specific speed limit. If it can overtake another car legally and safely, what general maximum speed must it observe?
- What factors may justify setting a specific speed limit for a road section?
- When speed increases, you must…
- Must an ordinary-service car driver, with no officer’s instruction requiring otherwise, observe a currently applicable signed maximum speed even when overtaking?
- What signal is an officer giving when they move their arm up and down intermittently?
- For a dual carriageway within a built-up area, what conditions do the General Traffic Regulations require to raise the generic 80 km/h limit?
- On a motorway, with no specific minimum-speed sign and no circumstances justifying a lower speed, what is the generic minimum speed for a car?
- While driving towards a place where you will perform a permitted U-turn, your current speed is too high to manoeuvre safely. What should you do?
- A two-wheel motorcycle whose maximum design speed does not exceed 100 km/h has one exterior mirror under the Annex III rule. On which side must it be?
- Does excessive speed affect our capacity for anticipation?
- A motorcycle without a trailer travels on a motorway outside a built-up area. With no lower specific limit, what is its general maximum speed?
- How is alcohol eliminated from the body after drinking?
- At night, a main-beam fault cannot be repaired en route and you need to continue to a safe repair location. Dipped beams work and safe travel is possible. How must you adapt speed?
- When excessive speed narrows the useful visual field through tunnel vision, which hazard may be more easily overlooked?
- When towing a trailer and encountering strong crosswind gusts, what action should you take to reduce risk?
- What obligation does the illustrated blue circular sign impose?
- When using a deceleration lane to leave a motorway, why must you adapt speed to the exit?
- A 50 km/h speed-limit sign is mounted on the same post as a dangerous-bend warning. Until when does that hazard-related restriction apply?
- An R-301 is not associated with a hazard sign and the case of leaving a junction from a non-priority road onto a priority road does not apply. Which sign ends its restriction?
- A motorcycle travels on a travesía, a through-road within a built-up area, with no specific sign lowering the limit. What is its general maximum speed?
- As speed increases...
- Which of these actions should be carried out before reaching a bend?
- From this sign...
- A motorhome overtakes a lorry on its left, leaving the lorry to its right. A strong crosswind blows from the left. Can the risk of moving closer to the lorry increase?
- You drive a passenger car without a trailer on a motorway where the applicable limit is 120 km/h, with no lower restriction. Can 100 km/h be an appropriate speed?
- Under comparable conditions, when can reduced visibility make overtaking more difficult and dangerous?
- Speed must always be adapted to:
- When driving at an appropriate speed, it is easier to...
- When there is accumulated snow on the road, how should you drive?
- A car without a trailer or special transport travels outside a built-up area on a paved conventional road without a physical separator between directions or a different specific limit. What maximum speed must it not exceed when overtaking another car?
- If an overtaking manoeuvre already begun becomes difficult to complete without creating risks, must you abandon it and return safely to your lane?
- On what type of roads are mopeds not allowed to travel?
- If visibility is reduced while driving a car, you must...
- When there are obstacles and cyclists riding, you should...
- Is alcohol an important crash-risk factor even for an experienced driver or someone accustomed to drinking?
- A bus carries standing passengers as authorised and travels on a paved conventional road outside a built-up area, with no lower limit. What is its maximum speed?
- As speed increases while driving...
- On an ordinary urban road with two or more lanes in each direction and no sign reducing the limit, what is the general maximum speed for a motorcycle? Do not count reserved lanes.
- Which measure supports good visibility and safe driving at night?
- A car has hazard warning lights. In which situation must they be used to signal its presence under article 109.2.c?
- With no sign establishing another limit or specific restrictions, what is the general maximum speed for a car on a motorway running within a built-up area?
- A car is being overtaken under normal conditions, without danger or special circumstances requiring slowing to facilitate passage. Must it brake merely because it is being overtaken?
- Besides reducing visibility, can fog reduce tyre grip?
- You must refrain from changing direction when...
- Can the traffic authorities increase the maximum speed normally permitted for this type of road on an urban motorway?
- Is it dangerous to drive below the minimum permitted speed without justified cause?
- While braking with the vehicle still moving, the wheels lock and slide over the road surface. What risk can arise?
- Which behaviour helps reduce accident risk throughout a journey?
- A car without a trailer travels on a paved conventional road outside built-up areas, with no physical separation of directions or lower specific limit. Even with a shoulder wider than 1.5 m, what is its general maximum speed?
- What is the speed used to define a road alignment’s geometric characteristics under comfort and safety conditions called?
- If safe before a substantial speed reduction, how can you warn the driver behind using brake lights?
- Outside built-up areas, a car tows a light trailer on a motorway or dual carriageway. With no lower specific limit or applicable special regime, what is its general maximum speed?
- Which of these behaviours increases crash risk?
- Can animal-drawn vehicles use dual carriageways?
- What should be the first action we should take before reaching a bend?
- On a motorway, without justified cause or an applicable exception, which motor-vehicle speed is below the statutory minimum?
- A car without a trailer travels on a conventional road outside a built-up area, with no physical separation between directions and no lower specific limit. What is its general maximum speed?
- How many rear-view mirrors must a motorcycle with a self-protective structure have fitted?
- When approaching a properly signposted intersection with practically no visibility, without a lower applicable limit, what speed must not be exceeded under article 46.1.h?
- What effect does the tunnel effect caused by speed have on the driver?
- A car uses an urban road with at least two lanes in each direction, excluding reserved lanes, and no different specific limit. Which general maximum also applies when overtaking?
- Can a speed limit below the general limit be established with appropriate signs both on a through-road in a built-up area and on a motorway?
- If the road narrows or obstacles appear while driving a passenger car or other vehicle covered by a B licence, the proper action is to:
- The speed limits set on roads are established...
- What speed must vehicles whose driver walks alongside them not exceed?
- A car follows another vehicle. To stop without colliding if it brakes suddenly, what following gap must generally be maintained?
- When approaching a vehicle stopped on the carriageway, is it compulsory to reduce speed?
- On an urban road, why must you obey the applicable speed limit and reduce speed when necessary?
- When traffic and safety permit, how should speed be maintained for economical driving?
- Under the General Vehicle Regulations’ Annex III table, which mandatory exterior mirrors does a motorcycle with a maximum design speed above 100 km/h need?
- When approaching a bend, how should entry speed be selected?
- What must a car’s secondary braking function achieve if service braking fails?
- What should be done if, once overtaking has begun, something happens that makes it impossible to complete it?
- As speed increases...
- You add 300 kg of properly secured load within the vehicle’s limits. What braking precaution should you take?
- A passenger car travels on a motorway with no circumstances justifying lower speed. What is the general minimum travelling speed?
- A passenger car without a trailer or special transport travels outside a built-up area on a conventional motor-vehicle-only road, with no physical separation between directions or different specific limit. What is its general maximum speed?
- At what maximum speed may cars travel under the yellow level of snow-driving conditions?
- On a motorway, is it permitted to drive at an abnormally reduced speed in thick fog?
- After an S-500 built-up-area entrance sign, a car travels on an urban road with two ordinary lanes in each direction, separate pavements and no different specific limit. What is its general maximum speed?
- With no lower specific limit, what is a bicycle’s general maximum speed on a paved road outside a built-up area?
- When approaching a moving bridge, how should you act?
- This traffic sign...
- Can other factors influence an accident when weather conditions are adverse?
- In the event of heavy rain, is it advisable to increase the safety distance and reduce speed?
- On an acceleration lane, the driver must:
- Is it important to comply with minimum speed limits?
- Can high speed be dangerous?
- A passenger car without a trailer or special transport operation travels on a conventional road outside a built-up area, with no physical separation of directions and a paved shoulder wider than 1.50 metres. With no lower specific limit, what is its general maximum speed?
- A passenger car without a trailer overtakes another passenger car on a conventional road outside a built-up area, with no physical separation between directions and no different posted limit. What is its general maximum speed?
- At what maximum speed may cars travel under the red level of snow-driving conditions?
- Which of these signs ends the specific speed restriction shown in the image?
- A passenger car tows a trailer with a 700 kg maximum authorised mass on a dual carriageway outside a built-up area, with no lower posted limit or special regime. What is its general maximum?
- What does this traffic sign indicate?
- A passenger car enters thick fog that greatly reduces visibility. How must it adapt its speed?
- To anticipate danger, it is very important that the driver...
- On a motorway outside a built-up area, a passenger car without a trailer or special regime travels on a section with no lower posted limit. How must it choose its speed?
- Is it possible to save fuel by avoiding unnecessary gear changes?
- Driving at a speed higher than the maximum permitted speed, you are driving...
- What does this built-up-area entry sign indicate?
- If initial speed increases while other conditions remain comparable, braking distance…
- At a properly signposted junction where you have no priority and visibility is practically zero, how must you adapt speed?
- A lane sign shows the number 70 in blue circles with white numerals above two lanes. What speed do those circles indicate for those lanes?
- If you are forced to drive with a temporary-use or emergency spare wheel, you must bear in mind...
- Once an overtake has begun, a danger arises for the vehicle being overtaken. If the overtaking driver is not abandoning the manoeuvre, must the overtaken driver reduce speed?
- What does this sign indicate?
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Frequently asked questions about speed on the B licence
- How many speed questions are in the B licence question bank?
- Our exam-style question bank includes 331 speed questions for the B licence. Each comes with the correct answer and explanation.
- How should I study speed for the B licence exam?
- The B test has 30 questions. Use this bank to practise speed with explanations, and combine topic review with full mock exams.
- What are the most common speed mistakes?
- Three typical causes: 1) misreading prompts with decisive keywords ("always", "never", "except", "only", "at least") — they flip the correct answer; 2) switching correct answers in the final review due to self-induced doubt; 3) studying only by topic without full simulations, which penalises block-switching speed.
- How should I practise speed to prepare for the B licence?
- Alternate three modes: first study the full topic syllabus; then practise the 331 exam-style speed questions until you understand the logic of each; finally launch full B-licence simulations (30 questions, max 3 wrong) to train block-switching under pressure.