Right-of-Way and Intersection Behaviour
Right-of-way questions are dense in the Mongolian theory test because the rules are short but the situations are many. Learn the four default rules below and most items resolve themselves.
Equal-priority intersections
Where there are no signs and no working signals, give way to vehicles approaching from your right. This interference-from-the-right rule decides the order; travelling straight ahead gives you no automatic priority.
Turning
When turning left you yield to oncoming traffic going straight ahead or turning right. When turning right you yield to pedestrians crossing the road you are joining and to cyclists continuing straight.
Roundabouts
Mongolia applies yield-on-entry: traffic already circulating has priority, so you slow or stop before entering and signal right as you leave. Do not stop inside the circulating lane to let someone in.
Special cases
- Leaving a yard, petrol station, parking area or dirt track: yield to everyone already on the road.
- Emergency vehicles with flashing lights and siren: clear a path, even crossing a stop line if it is safe and you do not endanger anyone.
- Pedestrians on a zebra crossing: stop and stay stopped until they have cleared your lane.
Worked example
You reach an unsigned four-way intersection going straight ahead. At the same moment a car arrives from your right. Reasoning: although you are travelling straight, the right-hand rule gives the other car priority, so you ease off, let it clear, then proceed. A candidate who answers straight-has-priority is relying on a rule that does not exist here.
Traps that cost marks
Inventing a straight-ahead priority; assuming the first car to arrive always goes; believing entering a roundabout has priority; forgetting the cyclist beside you when you turn right; and waving another driver through when the rule says otherwise, which creates confusion rather than courtesy.