Singapore TDVL study plan
Singapore TDVL · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Traffic rules, road signs and road markings & Road safety and safe driving behaviour
Draw and label from memory the four sign families (regulatory, warning, informational, temporary) with three real examples of each
List the six main road-marking types (lane lines, edge lines, box junctions, hatched areas, bus lanes, yellow zig-zags) and state the rule each one imposes
Recite the core speed limits, stopping/signal duties and junction priority rules without notes
Identify and correct five of your own recurring driving habits that breach a traffic rule you listed
Your checkpoint
A one-page handwritten sign-and-marking cheat sheet, self-tested to 90% accuracy on 30 items
Road safety and safe driving behaviour & Traffic rules, road signs and road markings
Apply the MSM (mirror-signal-manoeuvre) routine aloud in five narrated driving scenarios
Rank ten hazard scenarios (wet road, blind junction, tailgater, pedestrian between parked cars) by risk and justify each ranking
Describe the correct action sequence for expressway breakdown, emergency lane use and accident scene management
Explain how fatigue, alcohol, medication and night driving degrade reaction time, citing the legal limits
Your checkpoint
Five written hazard-response scenarios scored against a self-made 5-point checklist, all scoring 4 or better
Taxi service regulations and vocational licence obligations
Map every vocational licence obligation (display of licence, medical fitness, change of particulars, surrender/revocation) to its consequence if breached
State the penalties and demerit-point thresholds that apply to taxi drivers, distinguishing them from ordinary licence holders
List the documents and inspections a taxi must carry or pass, and who is responsible for each
Summarise the rules on picking up, refusing, and terminating a hire under the regulations
Your checkpoint
A 20-item self-quiz on regulations written by you, answered closed-book at 85% or higher
Taxi service regulations and vocational licence obligations & Traffic rules, road signs and road markings
Answer 60 mixed questions across domains 1 and 3 under timed conditions
Log every wrong answer into an error register tagged by cause (knowledge gap, misread, guess)
Re-study only the tagged knowledge gaps and re-test them
Explain aloud, in two minutes each, five rules that exam candidates most often confuse
Your checkpoint
Timed 60-question set at 80% or above, with a completed error register
Passenger service, customer care and complaint handling
Script and role-play the greeting, journey confirmation, and closing for three passenger types (elderly, tourist, business traveller)
Classify six complaint types and draft a compliant response to each using a listen-acknowledge-act-confirm structure
List the accessibility and assistance duties owed to passengers with luggage, wheelchairs or children
Draft a de-escalation script for a fare dispute and a refusal-of-service situation
Your checkpoint
A complaint-handling script pack covering six scenarios, each under 150 words and role-played once aloud
Route knowledge, navigation and fare-meter use & Passenger service, customer care and complaint handling
Compute metered fares, surcharges, booking fees and midnight/peak multipliers across ten worked examples
Plan three routes between named landmarks and state the trade-off (time, ERP, distance) for each
Identify the top ten landmarks and key interchanges used in route questions and place them on a hand-drawn sketch map
Explain the meter-tampering, receipt and fare-display obligations that link domain 5 to customer care
Your checkpoint
Ten fare computations with 100% correct arithmetic and a labelled sketch map of ten landmarks
Traffic rules, road signs and road markings & Road safety and safe driving behaviour & Taxi service regulations and vocational licence obligations & Passenger service, customer care and complaint handling & Route knowledge, navigation and fare-meter use
Sit two full-length mock papers under exam timing without notes
Cross-map every error to its domain and rank the three weakest domains
Rewrite condensed notes for only those three weak areas
Rehearse the ten most-missed facts using spaced repetition on days 1, 3 and 6
Your checkpoint
Two mock scores recorded with a domain-by-domain accuracy table showing week-on-week improvement
Traffic rules, road signs and road markings & Road safety and safe driving behaviour & Taxi service regulations and vocational licence obligations & Passenger service, customer care and complaint handling & Route knowledge, navigation and fare-meter use
Re-sit both mock papers and target 90% overall
Recite the sign, marking, regulation and fare figures that you previously got wrong, cold
Simulate exam-day conditions: full timing, no breaks, no reference material
Write a one-page final recall sheet and read it on the morning of the test
Your checkpoint
Final mock at 90% or above with zero repeats of previously logged errors
Milestones
Week 2: Can state speed limits, junction priority, and hazard-response sequence from memory with no notes, and self-score 90% on the sign-and-marking sheet
Week 4: Timed 60-question mixed set across domains 1 and 3 completed at 80% or above, with an error register started
Week 6: Fare computations at 100% correct and complaint scripts role-played; domains 4 and 5 covered end to end
Week 7: Two full mock papers sat under exam timing; weakest three areas identified and rewritten
Week 8: Final full mock at 90% or above with no previously logged error repeated