Bad Weather & Night Driving: British Columbia Class 5 License
Rain, snow, ice, fog and night driving: visibility, traction and headlight use.
How this topic is tested
The Canada British Columbia Class 5 License knowledge test draws questions on bad weather & night driving directly from the official driver's handbook. The questions below are the ones learners get wrong most often, so work through the explanation on each page rather than memorising the answer letter.
If the car starts to skid, the usual tested answer is to ease off the accelerator and steer into the skid — not to brake hard. Night questions almost always mention low-beam distance and when to dip high beams.
33 practice questions
- 1. While you are driving with a learner’s licence, you may drive only between...?
- 2. Drivers licensed under the Graduated Driver License Program are restricted from operating a vehicle…?
- 3. When driving at night with your high beams on, how close are you allowed to get to another car before you dim your headlights?
- 4. Who is responsible to make sure that all passengers are properly secured with seatbelts or child restraint systems?
- 5. If you have changed your address, you’re required to update the address on your licence within…?
- 6. The first license new drivers receive is a:
- 7. What action should you take if your vehicle is hydroplaning?
- 8. If you are convicted of driving while impaired (BAC reading over .08), you’ll lose your driver’s licence immediately for…?
- 9. If you drive a vehicle while you are unlicensed, the police can impound the vehicle, on the spot, for …?
- 10. If you are involved in a reportable accident, you must report this to your nearest provincial or municipal police...?
- 11. During poor weather conditions such as rain, snow, smoke and fog, how should you use your headlights?
- 12. You must use your headlights…?
- 13. Hydroplaning can cause your vehicle to skid. It is caused by…?
- 14. When lights are required, drivers are required to switch to low beam headlights…?
- 15. What is meant by 'overdriving' your headlights?
- 16. You should use low beam headlights when driving a vehicle at night when…?
- 17. Most skids are the result of driver error. Skids may occur when you…?
- 18. If you refuse a police roadside blood alcohol screening test what can happen?
- 19. While you are driving with a learner’s license, a qualified supervisor must sit beside you when you are driving.
- 20. It is more dangerous to drive at the maximum speed limit at night than during day time because…?
- 21. When meeting oncoming vehicles with bright headlights at night you should…?
- 22. Traction is affected by slippery conditions; in winter drivers should drive…?
- 23. When descending a steep hill, a good and safe driving practice is to…?
- 24. What should you do if you become stranded in snow?
- 25. Under what circumstances may you lend your driver's license to another?
- 26. On approaching an intersection where a traffic signal light is red and a policeman motions you to go through, you should…?
- 27. You must dim your high beam headlights when you are within ______ of another vehicle, either when meeting or following a vehicle.
- 28. If you are involved in a reportable accident, you must report it to your nearest provincial or municipal police…?
- 29. What is the safest action to take when your vehicle drives over black ice?
- 30. Drivers and learners in B.C.’s Graduated Licensing Program are not permitted to use hand-held or hands-free communications devices…?
- 31. A person whose driver’s license is under suspension, may…?
- 32. When a police officer signals you to pull your vehicle over you…?
- 33. When approaching a railway crossing where an electrical or mechanical signal device is warning of the approach of a train, you must: