Well prepared for the exam – all the info at a glance

Theoretical exam

These requirements you need to meet for the exam

How We Book Your Exam

Cancelling Your Exam – Here's How

How Payment Works

What You Need to Bring to the Exam

Where and When? Your Meeting Point & Start Time

Exam Languages

How Long Is Your Exam

How Many Questions to Expect – and How Many Mistakes You're Allowed to Make

Passed or Not? Your Exam Result

How Long Is the Theory Test Valid

These requirements you need to meet for the exam

  • You may take a theory exam at the earliest 3 months before reaching the minimum age.
     
  • Your examination authorization has been issued by the driver’s licensing authority.
     
  • The examination authorization is only considered issued once you have received the activation code for the TÜV Süd Drivers Club from the TÜV Süd testing center by post or email and have registered there.
     
  • Check in your Drivers Club | TÜV SÜD whether your exam authorization (exam order) has been issued for your desired class:
    TÜV Süd Drivers Club -> Menu -> My profile -> My driving licence classes
     
  • Check in your Drivers Club | TÜV SÜD whether the need for a visual aid has been entered correctly:
    TÜV Süd Drivers Club -> My tests -> Requirements

    If the exam authorization (exam order) has not been issued by the driving licence authority for your desired category or if a requirement (e.g. visual aid) has been entered incorrectly, contact your driving licence authority (Munich district administration department or district office) using the contact form, by telephone or in person. Contact information at the Munich District Administration Office.
     
  • Pay all outstanding advance payments (invoices) from TÜV Süd for your exam fees, which can be downloaded from your Drivers Club | TÜV SÜD. For a repeat examination, the advance payment is due again. The advance payment applies exclusively to the services of the TÜV Süd testing center.
     
  • There must be at least 14 days between your theoretical and practical exam.
     
  • All required theory lessons must be completed by the day of your exam.
     
  • The FAHREN LERNEN app will show you whether you have reached exam readiness. This is the case once you have completed all learning units plus 15 consecutive successful mock exams within the last 10 days. You do not need to have reached exam readiness at the time of booking – it is enough to achieve it shortly before your exam date.
     
  • You need credit on your driving school account for the theory exam. The credit must be sufficient to cover your already confirmed driving appointments and the theory exam.

How We Book Your Exam

  • If you fulfill all the requirements, email your location to ask about the availability of an exam.
     
  • We will check availability at the TÜV Süd test center and send you all possible dates by e-mail.
     
  • Let us know your preferred date by e-mail and you will receive a booking confirmation from us.
     
  • As a rule, the TÜV Süd testing center makes examination appointments available one month in advance.
     
  • As a rule, the TÜV Süd test center has a booking lead time of approx. 2 weeks.

Cancelling Your Exam – Here's How

  • You can cancel the booked exam free of charge up to 9 days before the exam date.
     
  • If this deadline is not met, the amount for the ‘presentation for the theoretical exam’ is due in accordance with the training contract.
     
  • If you do not wish to cancel an exam by the deadline, you must inform the TÜV Süd test centre immediately. All information about this FAQ TÜV Süd

How Payment Works

Your exam involves two separate payments:

 

Exam Registration Fee

This is the driving school's exam registration fee for organising your exam. Your driving school account balance must cover this fee as well as all already confirmed driving lessons.

 

Cost Advance (Bill from TÜV SÜD)

This is the exam fee charged by the testing authority TÜV SÜD for conducting the exam. Once your exam authorisation (Prüfauftrag) has been issued by the Kreisverwaltungsreferat or Landratsamt, you will receive an invitation from TÜV SÜD to register in the Drivers Club | TÜV SÜD, where you can pay the cost advance directly.

Your exam appointment can only be booked once both payments have been made.

What You Need to Bring to the Exam

  • Passport or German identity card or residence permit (Aufenthaltstitel)
     
  • We will send the proof of training/training certificate for your theoretical training to TÜV Süd online. You do not need to bring these documents with you to TÜV Süd.

Where and When? Your Meeting Point & Start Time

  • You will receive a confirmation from our customer service via email with the date, time and exam location.
     
  • Please be at the TÜV Süd examination organisation approx. 15 minutes before the specified time.

Exam Languages

  • The theoretical examination is only possible in the following languages: German, English, French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Turkish
     
  • The foreign language does not need to be booked in advance.
     
  • Please let the examiner know your chosen foreign language immediately before the exam.

How Long Is Your Exam

  • The exam takes max. 45 minutes.

How Many Questions to Expect – and How Many Mistakes You're Allowed to Make

First issue or conversion of foreign driving licence

  • You need to answer a total of 30 questions: 20 questions on basic content + 10 questions on additional content for class B, A.
     
  • If you have a maximum of 10 penalty points, you have successfully passed the exam.
     
  • If you have 11 penalty points, you have failed the exam.
     
  • However, you have also failed the exam if you answer 2 questions incorrectly, each with 5 demerit points.

Extension of driving licence e.g. from category B to category A

  • You need to answer a total of 20 questions: 10 questions on basic content + 10 questions on additional content for class B, A.
     
  • With a maximum of 6 demerit points, you have passed the exam.
     
  • If you have 7 demerit points, you have failed the exam.

Theoretical test for several categories when obtaining a driving licence for the first time

  • If a driver's licence is issued for several categories for the first time, the basic material is only tested once.
     
  • The basic material and the respective additional material are assessed together.
     
  • Number of questions:
    Basic substance (first licence) with 20 questions
    + additive class A with 10 questions
    + Class B additive with 10 questions
     
  • In order to pass the exam successfully, the number of errors from the basic material and additional material for the respective class must not exceed 10 error points.
     
  • However, you have also failed the exam if you answer 2 questions incorrectly, each of which is worth 5 penalty points.

Example:

You do not yet have a driving licence and take the theory test for categories A and B in one day.

You have to answer the basic knowledge and the category-specific questions for category B and the category-specific questions for category A.

You will receive the following result after the exam:

Basic knowledge: 5 demerit points
Additional knowledge Class A: 7 demerit points
Additional knowledge Class B: 3 demerit points

This leads to the following consequences:

Driving licence Class A without success (5+7=12 demerit points)
Driving licence Class B with success (5+3=8 demerit points)

Although the basic knowledge is only tested once, the demerit points count for all driving licence classes (in this case A and B) that are tested at the same time.

In the next test for category A, you will be tested again in basic and additional knowledge.

You will therefore have to answer the basic knowledge again, even though you only had 5 penalty points in the first test.

In this case, the basic material only contains 10 questions instead of 20, because you have already passed class B in the first test and therefore now count as a previous possession.

In this case, category A is defined as an extended driving licence test.

Passed or Not? Your Exam Result

The examiner will inform you immediately after the examination about the result.

 

Examination with success

  • You are now authorised to book the practical exam.

Examination without success

  • You are allowed to retake earliest the examination after 14 days. The legislator stipulates this period. Available examination required.

How Long Is the Theory Test Valid

  • Your theoretical exam is only valid for 1 year.
     
  • If you do not pass your practical exam within this year, you will have to repeat the theoretical exam.
     
  • You can find the date of your theoretical exam in the TÜV SÜD Drivers Club
     
  • Please contact us no later than 3 months before your theoretical exam expires.
     
  • If your theoretical exam has expired, you must submit a new driver’s license application to the driver’s license authority.