Northwest Territories official handbook
Northwest Territories Motorcycle Manual 2026
The official Motorcycle Manual that Department of Infrastructure, GNWT publishes for this test, 84 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Edition
- Revised March 2020
- Pages
- 84
- 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.
84 pages, 4.0 MB
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Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Department of Infrastructure, GNWTRevised March 2020
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 229 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 84 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 a motorcycle licence and the stages before a full one
- Helmets, eye protection and the rest of your gear
- Pre-ride inspection and what to check every time
- Riding position and where to sit in the lane
- Countersteering, cornering and control at speed
- Braking with both wheels, and what to do when one locks
- Shifting, downshifting and starting on a hill
- Being seen: conspicuity, lane position and blind spots
- Gravel, wet paint, grates, ruts and other poor surfaces
- Group riding and following distance
- Emergencies: quick stops, obstacles, wobbles and blowouts
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
- Not published
- Pass mark
- No published pass mark
- Time limit
- No published time limit
- Licence class
- Class 6P, 6
- Minimum age
- 16 (probationary Class 6), 17 (full Class 6)
- Administered by
- Department of Infrastructure, GNWT
- Helmet standard
- Not listed in the handbook