Roundabouts — Maryland Permit Test

Roundabouts on the Maryland permit test — 2 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

When entering a roundabout, yield to traffic already circulating, which approaches from your left.

Traffic already in the roundabout has nowhere to go if you enter, which is why the yield falls on the driver joining.

Travel counterclockwise through a roundabout and signal before exiting.

Everyone circulating the same way makes the gaps predictable, and signaling before you exit tells a waiting driver that the next one is theirs.

On the test

When entering a roundabout, you must yield to...

traffic already circulating, coming from your left. Traffic already in the roundabout has nowhere to go if you enter, which is why the yield falls on the driver joining.

How this works

Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.

You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.

Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.

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Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Maryland Driver's Manual, published by the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-08-29.