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Singapore PDVL study plan

Singapore PDVL · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Rules and Regulations (Road Traffic Act and vocational licence requirements)

  • List from memory the vocational licence classes and the vehicle categories each one authorises you to drive

  • State the age, driving-licence class and experience eligibility criteria in your own words without notes

  • Sequence the application steps: medical check, course attendance, test booking, card collection and renewal

  • Explain how the demerit point system applies specifically to a vocational licence holder, including suspension thresholds

Your checkpoint

A single-page 'licence rules' cheat sheet covering classes, eligibility, application sequence, renewal and demerit thresholds, cross-checked against official LTA material with zero factual errors.

Week 2

Rules and Regulations (Road Traffic Act and vocational licence requirements) & Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings

  • Describe a driver's statutory duties under the Road Traffic Act: accident reporting, stopping at the scene, rendering assistance and exchanging particulars

  • Distinguish at least eight vocational-licence offences (e.g. driving without a valid licence, unauthorised hire, overloading) and state the consequence of each

  • Classify all five sign families - regulatory, warning, informational, road markings and signals - and sort 40 real signs into them

  • Explain the licence-holder conduct rules on passenger safety, vehicle fitness and record-keeping

Your checkpoint

A 40-item sign classification table plus a 20-question timed quiz on Domain 1 scored at 85% or better.

Week 3

Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings

  • Reproduce 25 road markings and regulatory signs from memory with their exact meanings and any stated numbers

  • Interpret warning signs and supplementary plates, including 'what the plate changes about the rule'

  • State the speed limit rules by road type, vehicle class and zone

  • Read traffic light sequences, arrow signals, flashing signals and lane-use signals and state the correct response to each

Your checkpoint

A hand-drawn or written recall sheet of 25 signs and markings reproduced from blank paper, self-marked at 90% or better accuracy.

Week 4

Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings & Safe and Defensive Driving Practices

  • Convert sign and marking knowledge into driving decisions by matching 20 markings to the manoeuvre they permit or forbid

  • Apply the Mirror-Signal-Manoeuvre routine and the correct sequence for lane change, junction entry and U-turn

  • Calculate safe following distance using the two-second rule at three different speeds and state the wet-weather adjustment

  • Identify the top five recurring sign/rule errors from your own quiz history and rewrite the correct answer for each

Your checkpoint

A 50-question timed mock covering Domains 1 and 2, scored at 80% or better, with an error log listing each wrong item and the correct rule.

Week 5

Safe and Defensive Driving Practices

  • Apply defensive driving techniques - scanning, space cushioning, escape route selection - to written hazard scenarios

  • State stopping distance components and adjust following distance for rain, night and heavy traffic

  • Describe the specific precautions for night driving, wet roads, expressways and school/hospital zones

  • Rank ten given hazards by risk and justify the correct action for the highest-risk three

Your checkpoint

A written defensive-driving decision log of 10 hazard scenarios, each with the chosen action, the rule it follows and why the rejected alternatives are unsafe.

Week 6

Driver Conduct, Service Quality and Passenger Safety

  • Demonstrate the end-to-end service sequence from passenger boarding to alighting, including greeting, confirming destination, route communication and fare/payment courtesy

  • Apply passenger safety rules on seatbelts, child and vulnerable passengers, luggage stowage and door operation at the kerb

  • Script responses to six difficult-passenger situations: dispute over route, refusal to pay, intoxication, aggression, complaints and lost property

  • Explain how to handle passengers with disabilities or mobility aids, including assistance limits and equipment handling

Your checkpoint

A 12-scenario passenger-handling response guide, each entry giving the exact words to use, the action to take and the rule or service standard behind it.

Week 7

Vehicle Care, Breakdown and Emergency Handling & Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings

  • Perform and document a pre-trip inspection covering tyres, brakes, lights, fluids, mirrors, wipers and warning indicators

  • Interpret the ten most common dashboard warning lights and state the correct driver action for each

  • Sequence the breakdown procedure: moving to safety, hazard lights, warning triangle placement, passenger evacuation and reporting

  • Outline first-response steps for a collision, fire, tyre blowout and medical emergency, including who to call and in what order

  • Re-run a 25-question sign and marking drill to keep Domain 2 knowledge from decaying

Your checkpoint

A laminated-style pre-drive checklist card (one page) plus a numbered breakdown-and-emergency flowchart covering at least four emergency types.

Week 8

Rules and Regulations (Road Traffic Act and vocational licence requirements) & Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings & Safe and Defensive Driving Practices & Driver Conduct, Service Quality and Passenger Safety & Vehicle Care, Breakdown and Emergency Handling

  • Complete three full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions

  • Score 85% or better in every domain, not just on the overall total

  • Re-teach your two weakest domains using your own error logs, then re-test only those domains

  • Compress all five domains into a single two-page final revision sheet you can review in 20 minutes before the test

Your checkpoint

Final full mock exam result showing 85% or better in all five domains, with a signed-off two-page master revision sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: You can explain, without notes, how a vocational licence is obtained and lost, and you scored 85%+ on the Domain 1 quiz.

Week 4: You scored 80%+ on a 50-question Domain 1 and 2 mock and your error log shows fewer than 10 unresolved items.

Week 6: You can name the correct action for any of the 12 passenger scenarios and can quote the sign meaning for 90% of the 40-item table.

Week 8: Three consecutive full mocks completed with 85%+ in all five domains and no domain below 80% on any attempt.