Free Guam Driver License Test Exam Flashcards

Stage 1 learner's permit at 15 years 6 months (vision test plus written test). Stage 2 intermediate at 16, which requires passing the behind-the-wheel road test. Stage 3 full licensure at 17. 16 GCA Sec. 31A04 through 31A06. Only Stage 3 releases you from the curfew and from the 0.02 alcohol condition.

50 hours of supervised driving, of which at least 10 hours must be after 7:00 p.m. The night component is deliberate, because night crashes are disproportionately fatal and the law forces that exposure under supervision. These hours are separate from the 40-hour certified driver education course.

Six consecutive months that are both collision-fault-free and conviction-free to leave Stage 1; twelve consecutive months to leave Stage 2. A violation does not merely pause the clock - it adds six months to your current stage, and it is reported to Revenue and Taxation within 10 working days. Two violations can cost a full extra year.

Under 18: 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on weeknights and 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. on weekends. Age 18 or older: 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. nightly. Driving during curfew for employment is permitted only with proof of employment carried in the vehicle - saying you were coming home from work is not enough.

All minors and all adult first-time license applicants - not just teenagers. An adult who has never held a license anywhere must complete it too, which is the most common planning mistake. The split is 32 hours of classroom instruction plus 8 hours of in-automobile, on-road instruction, and you present the original certificate when scheduling; a copy is refused.

20/40 in both eyes. If you reach that standard only with glasses or contact lenses, you are still licensed, but a corrective-lens restriction is placed on the license. Driving without them afterwards is then a license violation in its own right, not merely an unsafe choice.

Three years after the first birthday that falls after the date of issuance (16 GCA Sec. 3101(m)(1)). The three-year clock starts on your next birthday, not on the day of issue, so a license really runs between three and four years. Both common misreadings are wrong: it does not expire on your next birthday, and it does not expire exactly three years from the issue date. You may renew up to 90 days early.

Three years $25, five years $45, and eight years $65. The eight-year tier was added to 16 GCA Sec. 3102(i) by P.L. 37-126:2 in October 2024, so older handbook printings and older study material list only the three- and five-year options. The late penalty accrues at $5 per three-month block and is capped at $40.

Thirty days from arrival, not the 90 days some jurisdictions allow. A valid U.S. mainland license then converts administratively at Revenue and Taxation. A license from a recognized foreign jurisdiction - Palau, the FSM, the Marshall Islands, Japan, Taiwan, the EU, Canada, New Zealand, Korea, the Philippines, Australia - also gets 30 days, but conversion generally requires passing both Guam's written knowledge test and the road test.

Shape first, color second, symbol third, words last. The octagon is the only eight-sided sign and always means stop; the diamond is a warning; the wedge is yield; the rectangle carries a regulation; the pennant marks a no-passing zone. Guam runs older word-based signs and newer symbol signs on the same routes, so only the shape-and-color habit answers correctly for both versions.

A stop before entering the nearest crosswalk at the intersection (16 GCA Sec. 3339(b)(2)). Driving through is the exception, available only when that stop cannot be made in safety, and then only cautiously. Yellow is a stop command with a safety exception, never permission to hurry - and nothing in Sec. 3339 authorizes accelerating to beat the light.

Come to a complete stop first, be in the extreme right-hand lane, have no sign at that intersection prohibiting the turn, and yield to pedestrians and to traffic moving on the signal (16 GCA Sec. 3339(g)). Only the Chief of Police may prohibit it by regulation, and that regulation binds nobody until a sign is physically erected at the intersection. Guam has no left-turn-on-red provision - do not import that mainland habit.

Stop at the intersection, then proceed with caution when it is safe (16 GCA Sec. 3339(h)). A dead signal behaves as an all-way stop, not a yield and not proceed-if-it-looks-clear. Where vehicles arrive together from different highways, all stop and ordinary stop-sign right-of-way rules decide who goes. Public Works posts signs at these intersections reading STOP when traffic signal light is not working.

A flashing red is legally identical to a stop sign: stop at the crosswalk, at a marked limit line, or before entering the intersection, then proceed under stop-sign rules. A flashing yellow requires no stop; you may proceed only with caution (16 GCA Sec. 3335). Resist the false symmetry - flashing red is never a yield, and flashing yellow is never a stop.

On the LEFT side of the road - the one sign that lives on the side you are being told not to drive on. It is a long horizontal triangle, yellow with black letters, and it points to the beginning of a solid no-passing pavement marking. It is used in addition to the black-and-white DO NOT PASS sign, not instead of it.

Single delineators designate roadways and ramps. Double delineators mark change-of-speed lanes used for entering and leaving freeways, so a doubled line of reflectors means expect merging or exiting traffic. Delineators trace a continuous road edge; a single fixed hazard such as a bridge end post, pier, or traffic island is flagged by an object marker instead.

The driver on the LEFT yields to the driver on the right (16 GCA Sec. 3325(a)) - the driver on the right has the right. Vehicle size, traveling straight rather than turning, and sounding the horn confer nothing. The same subsection adds the trap: a driver approaching or entering at an unlawful rate of speed forfeits any right of way, so speeding gives it away rather than winning it.

Stop anyway. Under 16 GCA Sec. 3326(a) the duty attaches to the character of the road, not to the presence of a sign, and you keep yielding until you can proceed with reasonable safety. The duty runs both ways: a driver already on the through highway must slow down to let a stopped vehicle cross (Sec. 3326(b)). A missing sign is not a defense.

Signal 100 feet before turning, and for a longer distance if you must change lanes first to set the turn up. Left turn: hand and arm extended horizontally. Right turn: hand and arm extended upward. Stop or decrease speed: hand and arm extended downward. Signal one action at a time in the order you will perform it, and cancel the signal once the turn is complete.

Turning left into or out of traffic - and where that lane exists it must be used for all left turns. It is not a passing lane and it is not a pedestrian refuge, which is why the handbook records the local nicknames Suicide Lane and Kamikaze Run. Do not turn your wheels until you can complete the turn: a hit from behind or in front with the wheels already turned sends you straight into oncoming traffic.

300 feet is a sight-distance test that applies on a curve or on the approach to or near the crest of a grade (16 GCA Sec. 3322). 100 feet is a setback from an intersection that applies on a two-way street in a business or residential district, and only where official signs allow the turn. Swapping the two numbers is a standard exam error.

A right turn is approached and completed as close as practicable to the right-hand curb - from the extreme right lane into the extreme right lane. A left turn is approached in the part of your half of the road nearest the center line, passes to the right of that center line entering the intersection, and leaves to the right of the center line of the road you enter (16 GCA Sec. 3321). Cutting the corner drops you into the oncoming half.

45 mph (80 km/h). 16 GCA Sec. 3301(c) makes any higher speed unlawful on every road at every hour, and no agency on Guam can post a higher number, so a 45 mph sign is simultaneously the posted limit and the statutory ceiling. There is no enforcement tolerance above it. Mainland answers of 55 or 65 are always wrong here, whatever road the question describes.

You may pass only where the BROKEN line is nearest your side of the road; if the solid line is on your side, you may not. Yellow lines separate traffic moving in opposite directions and white lines separate lanes moving the same direction. Where only a broken line divides the lanes, traffic in both directions may pass when the way ahead is clear.

No. The legally traveled portion of the roadway ends where the solid white line on your right begins, and the shoulder lane is not for passing. Passing on the right is lawful in only three cases under 16 GCA Sec. 3317: the vehicle ahead is making or about to make a left turn, the pavement is wide enough for two or more lines of vehicles in each direction, or the highway is one-way.

Never get closer than 100 feet to an oncoming vehicle during a pass - it is a floor you must not violate, not a target to aim at. At 45 mph you cover 66 feet per second, so two vehicles at that speed close 132 feet every second. Return to the right only when you can see the passed vehicle in your rear-view mirror and are certain you are clear.

One car length for every 10 mph of speed - three lengths at 30 mph, and 45 mph rounds up to five. Guam does not teach the two-second or three-second rule used in mainland driver education, so a seconds-based answer is wrong on this test. Treat the car-length count as a floor and increase it in rain, because the road surface figures greatly in your stopping efficiency.

Every vehicle approaching from EITHER direction must come to a complete stop at once. 16 GCA Sec. 3336(c) contains no divided-highway, median, or lane-count exception, which makes it stricter than most mainland versions. You may move only after all passengers in the immediate area have boarded or reached a position of safety - not when the door closes. Fine $10 to $50, and causing injury or property damage upgrades the charge to reckless driving.

The trigger is disjunctive: a siren sounding OR at least one lighted lamp showing red or blue visible 500 feet to the front (16 GCA Sec. 3333). A silent unit running blue lights is enough. Then yield, drive immediately to a position parallel and as close as possible to the right-hand curb, CLEAR OF ANY INTERSECTION, stop, and remain there until it passes. If you are already inside the intersection, continue through it before pulling right.

Never on the side passengers are entering or leaving until the bus has started and every passenger who alighted has reached the side of the highway. Where a safety zone exists, or at an intersection controlled by a peace officer or a mechanical signal, you may pass without a full stop at no more than 10 mph (16 GCA Sec. 3336(a) and Sec. 3301(d)). Ten mph is an absolute ceiling, not a target - and it never applies to a stopped school bus.

Every intersection carries a legal crosswalk across each leg whether or not paint is on the pavement, and you must yield to a pedestrian crossing within it (16 GCA Sec. 3329(a)). You may never overtake and pass a vehicle that has stopped at a marked or unmarked crosswalk to let a pedestrian cross (Sec. 3329(b)) - the stopped car screens the pedestrian from your view, which is what makes that pass so deadly.

First, riders and passengers under 18 on a motorcycle, scooter or moped must wear a U.S. DOT-standard helmet (16 GCA Sec. 3305(a)). Second, any driver licensed to operate a motorcycle for less than three years must wear one regardless of age (Sec. 3305(c)). Third, under the Bicycle Safety Act of 2012 every bicycle operator and passenger of any age must wear a securely fastened helmet (Sec. 27104(a)). Sec. 3305 fines run $50 to $500; the bicycle rule is a $50 civil penalty.

They are built with oil-rich coral aggregate that lets oil rise to the surface, the coral base polishes smooth, algae grows readily on that smooth surface in the humid climate, and showers are frequent. The worst moment is the first few minutes of a shower, when fresh water floats the surface oil into a film before enough rain has fallen to wash it away. Slow before large puddles too: water thrown into the undercarriage can soak wiring and brake linings and cause a stall or brake failure.

At least 200 feet of dry road, and 3 to 12 times that distance under wet conditions - roughly 600 to 2,400 feet, approaching half a mile at the far end. The mainland rule of thumb that wet roads roughly double stopping distance is wrong here. Remember also that braking distance grows with the square of speed while reaction distance grows only in proportion to it.

Do not slam the brakes. Take your foot off the accelerator, gently turn the wheels in the direction of the skid, and brake gently only once the vehicle has straightened. Hard braking locks the wheels and oversteering to correct simply starts a second skid - those two reactions are what turn a recoverable slide into a crash on polished coral pavement.

No - parking lights are for parking only, with no dusk, short-trip, or lit-street exception. Lighted lamps are required from sunset to sunrise and any other time people and vehicles are not clearly discernible at 500 feet (16 GCA Sec. 3201(a)). This matters doubly on Guam, where reflective markers do the work of paint: on parking lights the lane markings effectively disappear.

Dim your high beams within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle and within 300 feet when following another vehicle - the bigger number goes with the bigger risk, blinding someone closing on you head-on. Use lower beams in fog and reduce speed, because high beams reflect off suspended water droplets and blind you, and use lower beams on well-lighted streets. Distractors routinely swap the 500 and the 300.

Stop immediately - the trigger is injury, death, or damage to any real or personal property, with no dollar floor. Give your full name, address, and vehicle registration number, exhibit your operator's license, and render reasonable assistance including transporting an injured person for treatment if apparently necessary (16 GCA Sec. 3501). Leaving the scene of an injury or fatal crash is a felony; leaving a property-damage-only crash is a petty misdemeanor.

Stop, try to locate and notify the owner, then do both of two things: leave a written notice in a conspicuous place on the vehicle giving your name and address, the vehicle owner's name and address, and a brief statement of the circumstances; and forward a similar notice to the Guam Police Department within 24 hours - expressly regardless of the amount of damage done (16 GCA Sec. 3501(e)). The $50 threshold in the separate reporting statute does not rescue you here.

0.08 percent or more for any driver, 0.04 percent or more for a driver under 21, and no more than 0.02 for a learner's permit or intermediate license holder. Impaired-driving law now sits in 9 GCA Chapter 92 after the Safe Streets Act of 2018; 16 GCA Chapter 18 is vacant, so any source citing it for a BAC limit predates 2018. A 19-year-old at 0.05 is over the limit even though a 30-year-old at the same reading is not.

Because 9 GCA Sec. 92102 prohibits driving, operating, OR being in physical control of a motor vehicle while impaired. Sleeping it off in the driver's seat with the keys in hand is squarely within the statute. The same section also reaches impairment by controlled substances, by inhaled or ingested chemicals, poisons and organic solvents, and by any combination of these with alcohol - so a driver under 0.08 who has also taken a sedative can still be convicted.

A first offense is a misdemeanor: 48 hours mandatory up to one year in custody, a $1,000 to $5,000 fine, and a six-month license suspension that may allow an occupational driving permit. A third offense within five years is a third-degree felony: 90 days mandatory up to five years, a $4,000 to $7,000 fine, and revocation of not less than two years. Occupational permits are available to first offenders only.

Anyone who operates a motor vehicle on Guam's public highways is deemed to have consented to a blood, urine, or breath test (9 GCA Sec. 92201); the officer may request it only after a lawful arrest and after explaining the sanctions for refusing. Refusal is handled administratively by Revenue and Taxation with no conviction required: 6-month suspension with no prior, 2-year revocation with one prior, 3-year revocation with two or more within five years.

No - 16 GCA Sec. 3346 bans reading, writing, or sending electronic messages AND using or holding a mobile phone, so a handheld voice call violates it. Driving is defined to include being temporarily stationary because of traffic or a traffic control device with the motor running, so a red light is not a safe harbor. Fines are not less than $100, not less than $500 for a repeat, and not less than $1,000 if the violation contributed to a collision. Learner's permit and intermediate license holders get no hands-free exemption at all.

15 feet from any fire hydrant and from a fire station driveway entrance; 25 feet from an intersection or curb lines; 30 feet on the approach to a stop sign, flashing signal, or traffic signal, and from the ends of a safety zone (16 GCA Sec. 3402). Guam sets no setback distance before a crosswalk - parking on one is simply banned - and it has no railroad-crossing parking rule at all, because the island has no railroads.

16 GCA Sec. 3403(a) requires the right-hand wheels to be parallel with and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, headed in the direction of traffic. Eighteen inches is the outer legal limit; six inches is the technique target the handbook asks you to aim for when parallel parking. Aim for six and you have margin - finish at twenty and the car looks parked but you have committed a violation.

A fine of not less than $300 and not more than $500, and the vehicle may be towed at the owner's expense, with the towing cost becoming a lien against the vehicle (16 GCA Sec. 3401.1(e)). Blocking the adjacent access aisle counts as the same violation as taking the space. The rule reaches private lots made available for public use, such as shopping centers, not just government property.

$25,000 bodily injury liability per person, $50,000 in aggregate per accident, and $20,000 property damage liability per accident (16 GCA Sec. 19104). Coverage must stay continuously in effect for the whole registration period, not just on the day you register. Driving without it draws a mandatory $500 fine from the Traffic Division of the Superior Court, and Revenue and Taxation may suspend or revoke the registration.

On original application for registration, annually at the time the Director of Revenue and Taxation designates, and following any collision requiring extensive repairs (16 GCA Sec. 3601). The statutory fee is $15 per inspection, inclusive of the $3 OVIS administrative component. A failed vehicle gets a deficiency notice and must be resubmitted within five days; non-compliant window tint alone blocks a passing certificate.

All four sides enclosed by a secure vertical body extension including the tailgate at least 14 inches high; every seat in the cab occupied; bed passengers 12 or older; passengers seated on the bed floor at all times; nobody leaning against the tailgate; and no more than five passengers in the bed (16 GCA Sec. 26103(a)). They are cumulative - one empty cab seat collapses the exemption for everyone. Do not confuse the 14-inch enclosure with the 12-year age floor.