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Motorways
Prepare early, use lanes correctly and leave time to react. Motorway practice includes joining, leaving, closures and safe stopping places.
Understand the decision.
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You join a motorway using a slip road. What should you do?
- Match an appropriate speed and join a safe gap
- Assume motorway traffic must stop for you
- Stop at the end regardless of traffic
- Cross several lanes in one movement
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Match an appropriate speed and join a safe gap
Joining requires observation and a safe gap without forcing other traffic to change course.
Read the reference guidance ↗The left lane is clear after overtaking. What should you do?
- Return left when safe
- Stay in the middle lane for convenience
- Stay right until someone flashes
- Move left without checking mirrors
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Return left when safe
Normal lane discipline is to keep left except while overtaking or when signs direct otherwise.
Read the reference guidance ↗You miss your motorway exit. What should you do?
- Continue to the next suitable exit
- Reverse on the hard shoulder
- Stop and turn through the central reservation
- Brake sharply across the exit markings
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Continue to the next suitable exit
Never reverse or turn back to recover a missed motorway exit.
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- Read the situation and identify the actual decision being asked about.
- Choose an answer without looking at the explanation first.
- Check the explanation and follow its official reference if the rule is unfamiliar.
- Explain the point in your own words, then mix it with other topics.
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