Northwest Territories official handbook
Northwest Territories Basic Driver's Manual 2026
The official Basic Driver's Manual that Department of Infrastructure, GNWT publishes for this test, 164 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Edition
- Revised August 2022
- Pages
- 164
- Published by
- Department of Infrastructure, GNWT
Read the handbook
Opens on the Department of Infrastructure, GNWT website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
164 pages, 3.4 MB
All documents are hosted by Department of Infrastructure, GNWT, not by us. Visit the Department of Infrastructure, GNWT handbook page.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Department of Infrastructure, GNWTRevised August 2022
Official source: Department of Infrastructure, GNWT- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Northwest Territories handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why the Northwest Territories handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the Class 7 knowledge exam comes from what Department of Infrastructure, GNWT publishes in this handbook. Our 270 practice questions for Northwest Territories are written from it too, so reading it once and then testing yourself is faster than doing either alone.
Read it end to end once, then use practice questions to find the parts you have not absorbed.
What the Northwest Territories handbook covers
These 164 pages are the whole of what the test can draw on. Reading the list below is a quick way to find the parts you have not looked at yet.
- Getting your licence and the graduated licensing stages
- Traffic signs, signals and pavement markings
- Rules of the road, right of way and intersections
- Speed limits and following distance
- Turning, passing, lane changes and merging
- Parking rules and prohibited distances
- Sharing the road with cyclists, pedestrians and large vehicles
- School buses and emergency vehicles
- Impaired driving and the penalties that follow
- Winter, night and poor-visibility driving
- Collisions, breakdowns and what the law requires of you
Northwest Territories test facts
Every figure here is Department of Infrastructure, GNWT's own for the Class 7 knowledge exam, not a national average. Provinces genuinely differ, and studying another province's number is a common way to fail.
- Total questions
- 40 (20 signs + 20 road rules)
- Pass mark
- 80% per section (16/20 each)
- Time limit
- 30 minutes
- Minimum age
- 15 (with supervised conditions)
- Languages
- Not published by the territory
- Administered by
- Department of Infrastructure issuing offices
- Retake waiting period
- No waiting period published; C$47 per test under the fee regulation