General Directorate of Traffic (MOI)
Bahrain Driving Test Questions PDF
Bahrain's GDT publishes no theory retest fee and no waiting period, so you cannot budget for a fail - the safe plan is to pass first time, with every question type on the computer test covered here.
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What is riding on this test
This pack costs AED 39. A fail costs the fee again and the wait to rebook — what a fail actually costs.
Why this pack for Bahrain
- We could not source a theory retest fee or waiting period for Bahrain. The mandatory retraining lessons you may read about apply after a failed road test, not the theory test.
- The theory paper includes a vehicle parts and equipment section that generic Gulf material skips entirely.
- 479 questions with the rule source on each, matched to the GDT computer test.
Three questions from the pack
Exactly as they appear. Answer one and see the reason. Every one of the 479 questions is written to this standard.
What does this sign mean?
Pick an answer to see the reason.
What must you do when you see this sign?
Pick an answer to see the reason.
What does this sign tell you about your speed?
Pick an answer to see the reason.
Not ready to pay
Not sure where you stand? Sit a free Bahrain practice test, timed and marked on screen. It is complete and always will be.
Free practice testReady for the real thing
Liked those? The full pack has 479 at this standard, laid out as 13 exam-length papers you can print.
Get the pack - AED 39What the 479 questions cover
Counted from the bank this pack is printed from, by topic. Car candidates sit the shared topics; the motorcycle and heavy-vehicle sets are for those licences.
- Traffic rules7015%
- Right of way7015%
- Penalties and fines7015%
- Heavy vehicleTruck and bus track only7015%
- Safe driving6914%
- Road signs and signals6013%
- Motorcycle controlMotorcycle track only357%
- Motorcycle safetyMotorcycle track only357%
- 90Marked hard
Grouped in “the questions people get wrong”, the section to read last.
- Every oneCarries its rule source
The traffic rule or sign standard the answer comes from, not just a letter.
- 18 of 60Sign questions with a picture
The rest describe the sign in words. Read the note below.
The honest weak spot. The real test shows signs as pictures. This bank pictures 13 distinct signs, and its printable sheet carries those 13, not MOI Bahrain's full catalogue. If signs are your weak area, learn them from the official handbook as well; the rules, priority and penalties questions are where this pack is strongest.
Which language do you want it in?
The pack is the same questions in every language. Pick the one you want and that is the PDF you get.
General Directorate of Traffic (MOI) sets the real paper in English. So this pack is in the language you will actually sit the test in.
Get the pack in EnglishWhat is inside
Exam briefing
What General Directorate of Traffic (MOI) actually sets: question count, pass mark, time limit, languages and how booking works.
Road-sign reference sheet
The 13 signs pictured in the bank on one printable page, captions separated so you can test yourself. It is not the authority's full sign catalogue - see what the bank covers, below.
13 exam-length papers
Each paper is 35 questions, the real length, with a topic mix that matches the live paper rather than running all the signs first.
Marked answer key
The correct answer, why it is correct, and the rule it comes from - for every question, not a letter grid.
The questions people get wrong
The hardest items in the bank, marked and explained. The section to read the night before.
Topic revision bank
Everything not used in a paper, grouped by topic, answers marked - for fixing one weak area.
The Bahrain paper
Bahrain's theory test is 35 questions in 30 minutes with 26 correct needed to pass - a 75% pass mark, verified July 2026. It is run by the General Directorate of Traffic under the Ministry of Interior.
Thirty minutes for thirty-five questions is a little over fifty seconds each, which is the most generous timing of the GCC tests at this length. Nine wrong answers is your margin.
Every figure on this page is dated and sourced. Where third-party sites disagree - and on these tests they disagree constantly - we say so rather than picking the number that suits us. Confirm against the authority before you pay.
Car, motorcycle or truck - why it is one pack and not three
The Bahrain Driving Theory Test is mostly the same exam whoever you are. Of the 479 questions in this bank, 339 are the shared road-signs and rules material every candidate sits - signs, right of way, traffic rules, penalties and safety. Only 70 are motorcycle-specific and 70 are heavy-vehicle specific.
That is why we do not sell a motorcycle pack or a truck pack separately. A 70-question motorcycle-only product would leave you unprepared for the 339 questions that make up most of the paper you will actually sit, and selling you that would be taking your money for something designed to fail you.
One pack, all three tracks. If you are riding, the motorcycle paper is your supplement and the rest is your exam. If you are going for a truck or bus licence, the same applies in reverse.
What is in the Bahrain pack
479 questions as printable papers with a separate answer section for each, sized to the real 35-question exam. Light vehicle, motorcycle and truck-and-bus papers, with an explanation on every answer.
What a fail actually costs
- Per attempt
- No reliable published figure found
- If you fail
- We have not found a sourced retest fee or waiting period for Bahrain. The General Directorate of Traffic sets both; your driving school will have the current figure.
- Source
- None found as at October 2026
- Where sources disagree
- We searched for a Bahrain theory-test fee and found nothing we would stand behind. Rather than repeat a number from a site that cannot source it either, we are saying so.
The Bahrain Driving Theory Test at a glance
- Authority
- General Directorate of Traffic (MOI)
- Questions in the real test
- 35
- Correct answers to pass
- 26 of 35 (75%)
- Time limit
- 30 minutes
- Languages commonly offered
- English, Arabic
- Questions in this pack
- 479
- Exam-length papers
- 13
These are original practice questions to help you revise. They are not the official Bahrain exam and the real question bank, format, fees and pass mark are set by the General Directorate of Traffic (Ministry of Interior), and can change. Always confirm the current requirements with your driving school or the traffic department.
Frequently asked
479 questions, every one with the correct answer, an explanation and the rule it comes from. They are arranged as 13 exam-length papers of 35 questions each, plus a topic-by-topic revision bank for everything left over.
No, and you should be wary of anyone who claims to sell one. General Directorate of Traffic (MOI) does not publish its live bank. These are original practice questions written from the published traffic rules and the standard GCC road signs, which is how every legitimate practice resource works. The format, pass mark and fees are set by General Directorate of Traffic (MOI) and can change - confirm before you book.
The practice tests at /driving-test/bahrain are free, complete and stay that way. The pack is the offline version: one printable document with exam-length papers, a marked answer key you can read away from a screen, a road-sign sheet you can pin up, and a revision bank grouped by topic. If you revise on paper, or you want to work without data, that is what you are paying for.
26 of 35 correct, which is 75%. You get about 30 minutes. Every paper in the pack is marked against that same threshold, so a score in the pack means the same thing as a score in the test.
Pick the language on this page and that is the PDF you get: English, Arabic. General Directorate of Traffic (MOI) sets the written paper in English, Arabic, so the pack is in the language you will actually sit the test in. The options available are set by General Directorate of Traffic (MOI) and by your test centre - confirm when you book.
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35 questions in 30 minutes with 26 correct to pass - a 75% pass mark. Verified July 2026 and run by the General Directorate of Traffic under the Ministry of Interior.
We could not find a figure we would stand behind, so we are not quoting one. Several sites give numbers none of them can source. Your driving school will have the current fee, and that is the one that matters.
We have not found a sourced retest fee or waiting period. The General Directorate of Traffic sets both - ask your school before you book the first attempt, because the answer changes how much preparation is worth doing.
Same bank, different format - the free tests are timed and marked on screen, the pack is the whole bank printable with explanations.
Yes, one paper each alongside the light-vehicle papers.
No. The live bank is not published. These match the format, pass mark and syllabus.
Get the Bahrain pack
AED 39, one payment, 479 questions and 13 papers. Ask for it and we will send it to you directly.
Who made this, and what it is not
- Who wrote it
- The Wathim GCC Services Desk, the same desk that files these cases for clients.
- What it is built from
- 4 of our own published guides on this topic, plus 1 outside source listed below with what each one was used for.
- When it was last checked
- July 2026. Every figure carries its own date and source.
Being straight with you
- We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. Where a case needs one, the pack says so and says at what point.
- We are not a government authority and have no influence over one. Nothing in here changes a decision that has already been made. It tells you which door the decision came from and what that door accepts.
- Checking your own status is free. The official portals are linked throughout and they cost nothing. What you are paying for is knowing what to do with the answer, not access to it.
- GCC fees and thresholds move without notice. Everything here is dated and attributed so you can tell how old it is. Confirm the current figure with the authority before you pay anything.
- If a figure is wrong, tell us. Send it through and we will check it against the authority and correct the pack. Your download link always serves the current version, so a correction reaches you without you asking.
Where these figures come from
No GCC traffic authority publishes a fee schedule or a question bank you can check, so every number on this page is sourced to where we found it and dated. Where we could not source one, the row says so rather than repeating a figure from a site that cannot source it either.
Wathim driving-test data, verified July 2026
Used for: 35 questions, 26 to pass, 30-minute limit
No source found for the Bahrain test fee as at October 2026
Used for: nothing. We searched and found no figure we would stand behind, so this page quotes none - which is the point of listing the absence rather than omitting the row
Last reviewed July 2026. Rules and fees change; tell us if one is stale and we will check it.