Make sure your bring your photo learner permit. If you have an interim or temporary learner permit without a photo, you must also show a NYS photo driver license or a NYS non-driver photo ID card.  Photo documents from other states are not acceptable.

Also make sure you bring your form MV-278 (Pre-licensing Course Completion Certificate) or MV-285 (Student Certificate of Completion), unless the test is to amend your current NYS driver license to add or change the class of a current driver license. For example, a certificate is not required to add a motorcycle (M) class or to change to a commercial driver license (CDL) class.

• On and after September 1, 2006, the NYSDMV cannot issue a 10-day temporary CDL when you pass a CDL skills (road) test.
• Federal regulations require the NYSDMV to check both the National Driver Register and the Commercial Driver License Information System before the NYSDMV can issue a CDL.
• If you pass a CDL skills test on or after September 1, 2006, you must wait at least seven days after the skills test, then go to a DMV office to amend your driver license to a CDL.  Until your CDL is issued, you continue to hold only a CDL permit, and must comply with all restrictions and limitations of the permit.

If you have a Class DJ or MJ learner permit, you must bring form MV-262 (Certification of 20 Hours of Driving Experience) unless you are 17 years of age and have an MV-285 (Student Certificate of Completion).

NYS law defines a motorcycle as a motor vehicle that has no more than three wheels in contact with the ground. The examiner will not conduct the test if the vehicle has more than three wheels in contact with the ground.