Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings
Reading the road before you reach it
This domain tests whether you can identify sign families, obey light and police signals, and interpret markings that allocate road space. Pakistan uses the Vienna-style system, so shape and colour carry meaning even when the text is in a language you do not read.
Sign families
- Red circles prohibit: no entry, no overtaking, no right turn, or a maximum speed. A number in a red circle is a ceiling, never a target or a minimum.
- Blue circles are mandatory: turn left, keep left, or a minimum speed.
- Red triangles warn of a hazard ahead: bend, school, road narrowing, cattle, slippery surface.
- Rectangles inform: place names, hospital, parking, motorway exits, service areas.
Signals
Red means stop behind the stop line. Amber means stop unless you are so close that stopping would itself be unsafe. Green means proceed only if the way is clear; it does not create a right of way over pedestrians or blocked junctions. Flashing amber means proceed with caution. A police officer's hand signals override lights, signs and markings.
Markings
- Broken white line: lane change permitted when safe.
- Solid white line: do not cross. Double yellow: no overtaking.
- Zebra crossing: give way to pedestrians on it.
- Stop line, edge line, and yellow box junction: do not enter the box unless your exit is clear.
Worked example
You are doing 50 km/h and the light turns steady amber about 25 m ahead. The correct answer is to stop if you can do so safely; accelerating to beat the red is a fail. If a tailgater is close behind, brake progressively and still stop rather than run the red.
Traps
Treating a green light as automatic permission to enter a blocked junction; confusing a maximum-speed sign with a minimum; crossing a solid line to pass a slow tractor; ignoring markings because no police officer is present.