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LTO Professional Driver's License Exam Reviewer

The 100 questions the LTO prints for professional applicants, plus the rules that bind only professional and public utility drivers — each showing the Republic Act section it rests on.

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Professional driver's licence exam — what applicants actually ask

How is the professional exam different from the non-professional one?

The LTO sits the theoretical exam according to your DL Classification and DL Code, and its Filipino Driver's Manual prints separate reviewer sections for each level — the Professional sections share no questions with the Non-Professional ones. This reviewer covers Professional Motorcycle (A, A1) and Professional Light Vehicle (B, B1, B2). If you are applying for a non-professional licence, use the LTO Exam Reviewer instead.

Where do these questions come from?

One hundred of them are reproduced word for word from Chapter VI ("Reviewer") of the LTO's own Filipino Driver's Manual, Volume 1, 2nd Edition — the two Professional sections, fifty questions each. The manual gives a question and its answer without multiple choices, so those appear here as flashcards: you answer, reveal, and mark yourself. We did not invent wrong options for them, because inventing options would mean the answers are no longer the LTO's. The rest were written by us from Republic Act 4136 and the road-safety statutes the LTO enforces, and every one of them shows its section number.

How many items is the professional written exam, and what is the passing score?

We are not able to source this from the LTO. The manual's section on examinations (p.33) says only that the theoretical exam follows your DL Classification and DL Code — it gives no item count, time limit or passing mark. Third-party reviewer sites consistently say sixty items with seventy-five percent to pass, and the mock exam here is built to that shape, but treat those numbers as unverified rather than official.

What does the law require of a professional driver that it does not require of others?

Several things this reviewer drills. A professional driver must carry a driver's badge of metal with a legible number and wear it while driving a public service vehicle (RA 4136 §24). On a first drink-driving conviction a professional licence is confiscated and perpetually revoked, where a non-professional licence is suspended twelve months and only revoked on the second (RA 10586 §12(d)). The LTO may run random drug tests on public utility drivers at their terminals, and refusing one costs you your licence automatically (RA 10586 §8 and §15). A distracted-driving fine for a public utility driver is thirty thousand pesos rather than the five thousand an ordinary motorist pays (RA 10913 §8).

Are the peso amounts in these questions the fines I would actually pay today?

Not necessarily, and we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise. RA 4136's fines are the amounts written into the statute in 1964; the schedules the LTO enforces today come from later administrative orders that we do not hold and therefore do not quote. Every amount here is the one in the Act it cites. The penalties from RA 10586 and RA 10913 are recent and are quoted as those Acts state them.

Does this cover the conductor's licence?

Not yet. The manual's Reviewer chapter also carries thirty Conductor's License questions, which we hold but have not published — mixing them into a driver's reviewer would hand you a paper for a credential you are not applying for.

Sample questions with answers

12 sample questions from a bank of 309.

  1. 1. You hold a professional driver's licence. On your FIRST conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol or dangerous drugs, what happens to that licence?

    • It is suspended for three (3) months, then returned
    • It is suspended for twelve (12) months, then returned
    • Answer: It is confiscated and perpetually revoked
    • It is downgraded to a non-professional licence

    Source: RA 10586 §12(d)

  2. 2. What does perpetual revocation of a driver's licence mean under the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act?

    • The driver may apply for a new licence after five (5) years
    • The driver may keep a non-professional licence but loses the professional one
    • The driver may drive private vehicles but never a vehicle for hire
    • Answer: The driver may never be granted any kind of driver's licence again

    Source: RA 10586 §12

  3. 3. A law enforcement officer asks you to take the mandatory field sobriety and drug tests, and you refuse. What does RA 10586 impose on you?

    • A fine only, because a driver cannot be compelled to be tested
    • Answer: Confiscation and automatic revocation of your driver's licence
    • A written warning for the first refusal, and a fine after that
    • Suspension of your driver's licence for three (3) months

    Source: RA 10586 §8

  4. 4. When does RA 10586 require a driver involved in a vehicular accident to submit to chemical tests?

    • Only when the officer smells alcohol on the driver's breath at the scene
    • Only when the driver is found to be the party at fault in the accident
    • In every accident, including a minor bump where nobody was hurt
    • Answer: When the accident resulted in loss of life or physical injuries

    Source: RA 10586 §7

  5. 5. Which of the following does RA 10586 list as an apparent indication giving a law enforcement officer probable cause to conduct field sobriety tests?

    • Answer: Weaving, lane straddling, sudden stops and swerving
    • Driving with the headlights switched off in daylight
    • An expired vehicle registration sticker on the windshield
    • Carrying more passengers than the vehicle's seating capacity

    Source: RA 10586 §6

  6. 6. Under RA 10586, what is the officer's duty if a driver FAILS the field sobriety tests?

    • Impound the vehicle and file charges at once, with no further testing
    • Let the driver go with a warning if no accident has occurred
    • Answer: Determine the driver's blood alcohol level with a breath analyzer
    • Have the driver sign a roadside admission and release the vehicle

    Source: RA 10586 §6

  7. 7. An officer has probable cause to believe a driver is under the influence of dangerous drugs. What does RA 10586 direct the officer to do?

    • Draw a blood sample at the roadside for confirmatory testing
    • Confiscate the driver's licence on the spot without any test
    • Answer: Bring the driver to the nearest police station for a drug screening test
    • Bring the driver to the nearest hospital to be tested with a breath analyzer

    Source: RA 10586 §6

  8. 8. Which of the following is a FIELD SOBRIETY test named in the Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Act?

    • The breath analyzer test
    • Answer: The one-leg stand test
    • The urine drug confirmatory test
    • The colour vision test

    Source: RA 10586 §3(g)

  9. 9. Under RA 10586, what are 'chemical tests'?

    • The horizontal gaze nystagmus and walk-and-turn tests at the roadside
    • The vision and reflex tests given when applying for a licence
    • A physical examination conducted by the operator's company physician
    • Answer: Breath, saliva, urine or blood tests for alcohol or dangerous drugs

    Source: RA 10586 §3(c)

  10. 10. As a public utility driver, what does RA 10586 authorise the LTO to do at your terminal?

    • Answer: Conduct random terminal inspections and quick random drug tests of drivers
    • Conduct drug tests only after a complaint has been filed against a driver
    • Conduct random drug tests and charge the cost to the driver being tested
    • Conduct an annual medical examination of every driver before licence renewal

    Source: RA 10586 §15

  11. 11. You are a public utility driver picked for a quick random drug test at your terminal, and you refuse to take it. What does RA 10586 provide?

    • Nothing, because refusal is punishable only on the road, not at a terminal
    • Answer: Your driver's licence is confiscated and automatically revoked
    • You are fined, but your driver's licence is not touched
    • You are barred from driving for the rest of that day only

    Source: RA 10586 §8

  12. 12. A bus company's driver is convicted of driving under the influence. Under RA 10586, what is the position of the bus operator or owner?

    • The operator bears no liability at all; the driver alone pays the fine
    • The operator is liable for the fine only, never for the award of civil damages
    • The operator is liable only if he was aboard the bus when the offence occurred
    • Answer: The operator is liable together with the driver for the fine and civil damages, unless he proves extraordinary diligence

    Source: RA 10586 §13

The one hundred Professional reviewer questions are reproduced from the Filipino Driver's Manual, Volume 1 (2nd Edition), published by the Land Transportation Office, Department of Transportation, Republic of the Philippines. Their wording and answers are unchanged. The remaining questions were written by GoExam from Republic Acts 4136, 10586, 10913, 8750, 10054 and 10930, and cite the section they rest on. Filipino Driver's Manual Vol. 1, 2nd Edition (PDF, LTO)