What Are Best FREE CDL Test Sites For Practice?! I Keep Failing Written Test!

I'm in the process of obtaining my Class A CDL Permit. Wednesday (9-16-09) was the first time I took the real test at my local DMV. For $13.00, you're allowed 4 chances on each section. I had been studying my butt off for a few months now, but for some reason, I failed the General Knowledge section, which you have to pass before you can continue with any other sections. I waited a day, and went back up there this morning, Friday, to take it again. Once again, I failed, but with less of a number missed than the first time. I even studied the book this morning, & took tests online before ever going up there, and passed all of the tests that I took myself! Here is the website that I've been testing off of recently and passing:

http://www.cristcdl.com/otc/

The links on the left of that page take you to a test page for that particular section of the test. I've even ventured to this site and taken the tests on my own, with passing, flying colors:

http://www.testprepreview.com/cdl_practice.htm

Scroll down a bit, and you'll see the links to the individual tests. After reading over the handbook and studying these online pages, and questions from the book, I still have failed the real thing, and I have no idea why! I'll be going back on Tuesday to retake the written test. I realize that the questions on the real thing are probably worded differently than on any practice tests, but I do recall many of the questions/answers being the same for the practice tests I took. Not only that, but it's all the same principals. Would anyone here have any pointers as to what I could do to help pass, and would anyone know of any other good, free CDL practice test websites that I could study on? Thank You!

 

Thanks everyone for all of your replies and advice. And thank you Boog, you pointed out something to me that, now that I think about it, I actually did notice too. I went to the link you posted, and picked 50 questions under GK. It's exactly identical to Crist's CDL Page, my first link, hah.

Concerning the faulty tests online, I took a test, and got every question on the page correct. However, the score came back that I had missed one, and when I scrolled down through the questions, the "Correct Answers" were identical to my "Incorrect Answers", as you stated above. The problem could be that, like you said, I'm partly expecting the real thing to be in resemblance to the prep tests. Most of them on the real thing I can say are pretty much identical to the prep tests, in that they're based on the same principals, such as questions on the General Knowledge about losing air pressure & what to do, where to put the emergency cones, driving in fog.. Things like that. Those I got correct on the test. Most other questions on the test preps, like you've stated, are no where near anything on the real thing, although it's also technically the same thing...? Make sense?? lol.

Most of the other ones I got wrong on the real thing, I just had no clue why they were even wrong, lol. It's not like I picked "Just Keep Driving" under "What do you do when your engine bursts into an inferno?", hah. I go back Tuesday to take it again. 2 more tries before I have to pay $13.00 again, and each time it gets easier looking at the real thing and learning which ones were correct. I need to obtain the permit before I can attend school (required). 3rd time's a charm!

 

Thank you for this. I realize now that when I went this morning, I had gotten so excited for wanting to pass and get the permit, that I basically did as you said and partly rushed through most of it. I would get to places, read half the question, and put down the answer I thought I knew was correct. On many of them, they were correct, since it would be something I really remembered and it more or less would look like a common sense situation that the question was talking about. On others, I wasn't so lucky, lol. 50 questions on the test, allowed to miss 10.. I missed 14 this morning, so I got closer to my goal of passing than the very first time I failed. I believe it was around 20-something I missed first time, lol. I believe your suggestion, combined with a bit of faulty studying, such as what Boog was talking about, could very well be the root of my problem. I've opened up my PDF manual here on my laptop, and since I don't work during the days & pretty much sit all night # work, I'll have plenty of time until Tuesday to reeaallly study the right way..... Not saying I didn't from the very beginning, hah. Maybe some of those online tests tainted my brain a little?? Thanks so much for the advice guys, it's really helped me realize that maybe it wasn't entirely my fault

 

Thank you, Bugsy! I'll look into this!