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.
- 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.
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 172 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
- No time limit
- Minimum age
- 15 (with supervised conditions)
- Languages
- English; French and Indigenous-language accommodations vary by location
- Administered by
- Department of Infrastructure issuing offices
- Retake waiting period
- Variable by location
Source and edition
This is the Basic Driver's Manual, published by Department of Infrastructure, GNWT. It runs to 164 pages. We link to the agency's own file rather than republishing it, so what you open is whatever they currently publish, and we last checked the link on 2026-07-31. The authoritative copy is always the agency's own: view it on the Department of Infrastructure, GNWT website.