TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s Highway Bureau said Friday it will make the written test for scooter licenses more challenging starting Jan. 30 by eliminating true-or-false questions and increasing the share of hazard perception content.
Highway Bureau Director-General Lin Fu-shan (林福山) said the revised motorcycle question bank will use a unified 50-question multiple-choice exam, fully replacing the current true-or-false format, per CNA. The new bank contains 1,050 multiple-choice questions across four categories: “correct concepts and attitudes,” “proactive yielding culture,” “safe driving ability,” and “hazard perception ability.”
Hazard perception scenario and video questions will increase from 10 to 15, raising their share of the test from 20% to 30%, the bureau said.
Lin cited as an example cases in which scooter riders encounter a red light and choose to push their scooter across but are still ticketed. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has issued an official interpretation clarifying that pushing a scooter across the stop line or through a signal-controlled intersection during a red light still counts as running the red light, and related questions will be added to the bank.
The current scooter license written test is conducted online by appointment. Lin said anyone booking an exam date on or after Jan. 30 will be tested under the new system.
The bureau’s website is already offering mock tests for both the old and new systems.
Lin added that the car written test is expected to shift to an all multiple-choice format in June, increasing from 40 to 50 questions, with hazard perception and scenario questions making up about 20% of the exam.
According to Highway Bureau statistics, the pass rate for the car written test is about 79%, while the scooter written test pass rate is around 72%. About 290,000 people took the scooter written test last year.
