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Pass the road test with an instructor.
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Written test plus road test. It depends on the municipality and the state, but the road test is for demonstrating you know how to operate the car in a safe manner. This includes knowing how to turn the car on; shift into forward, reverse, and neutral; travel in an appropriate manner below the speed limit; obey all signs; make turns; signal; perhaps even parking (sometimes parallel); and turning the car off.
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In NH, the process is the same regardless of age or whether you took drivers ed; score well on a 20-question test, pass a quick eye exam, and then go out on a road test to prove you're not just book-smart. I got my first license after I got out of the navy, never took drivers ed, got 20/20 on the test, and a near-perfect on a two-mile loop that involved leaving the parking lot, hitting the highway, turning through a couple of intersections (obeying traffic signals), and returning. (The only thing I got marked down for was not adjusting the mirrors before I drove off, but I had already adjusted them before I got there since I drove the car into the testing site.)
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