Being passed — New Hampshire Permit Test
Being passed on the New Hampshire permit test — 2 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A driver being passed should stay in the lane they are traveling in and maintain a constant speed to allow the other driver to pass.
The passing driver worked out the gap from your current speed, and changing it is what leaves them stranded alongside.
Maintain a constant speed to allow the driver to pass.
A driver should never increase speed to prevent someone from passing.
Speeding up traps the passing car alongside with nowhere to go, which turns an ordinary pass into a head-on risk.
Never increase speed to prevent someone from passing.
On the test
What should a driver do while being passed?
Stay in their lane and hold a constant speed. The passing driver worked out the gap from your current speed, and changing it is what leaves them stranded alongside. New Hampshire Driver's Manual, p.17: “Maintain a constant speed to allow the driver to pass.”
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.
What it costs
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- Paying opens the rest of the cards, unlimited full-length practice tests, and retests built from exactly the questions you got wrong.
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All New Hampshire permit topics
Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against New Hampshire Driver's Manual, published by the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NH.pdf (New Hampshire Driver's Manual, Rev. 11/25, New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NH.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 6, folioMarker, nonLawPages, signGalleryPages and the extraction flag, each with its basis)