The permit test, exactly as your state runs it.
Same number of questions. Same pass mark. Same rules your examiner marks you against. Answer, find out why you were right or wrong, and read the law it came from. Then do it again until the nerves are gone.
Start in about ten seconds
Pick your state and go straight into a test. We remember it for next time.
Rather browse? Every state is listed further down this page.
- 34 of 51 formats confirmedChecked against the licensing agency, with the date on the page.
- 1059 questions, every one citedEach answer names the statute or official standard behind it.
- Citations machine checkedFederal references are verified against the live eCFR, not trusted.
- Free, with no accountNo premium tier, no email wall, no questions held back.
Licensing is a state job, so your test is a state test.
Cross a state line and the question count, the pass mark and half the rules change with it. Find yours below. Each card shows the format we hold on file and how many questions are waiting for you.
Whatever you are riding, driving or hauling.
Each family has its own exam, its own rules and its own bank here. Nothing is held back for a paid tier, because there is not one.
Car permit
- 51 states and DC, each in its own format
- 1059 questions with a cited source on every answer
- Exam simulator, road signs, right of way and a marathon
Motorcycle
- 51 jurisdictions with endorsement rules
- 130 rider questions on technique, not trivia
- The course waiver rule, which can skip the test entirely
CDL and endorsements
- 8 knowledge areas including air brakes and hazmat
- 145 questions written from federal law, not a manual
- Every answer cites the regulation it comes from
You are not memorizing a list. You are learning to read the road.
Most permit sites hand you an answer key and wish you luck. Getting one wrong here is the useful part: you find out what the rule actually says, where it is written, and why the answer you picked would have earned a ticket.
Anything you miss is saved on your own device and comes back a day later, then three days later, then a week later, until you have answered it right three times running. That is the whole trick to walking in calm, and it costs nothing.
At a four way stop, which vehicle should proceed through the intersection first?
A four way stop works on a first come, first served basis. The driver who stopped first has earned the right to go first, and everyone else takes a turn in the order they arrived.
Source: Uniform Vehicle Code conventions adopted across US statesUp to 14 different tests in every state.
Warm up on a short set, drill the topic that keeps catching you out, then sit the full thing under real conditions. All free, all in your own state format.
Practice tests
6 sets that do not repeat each other, so a second run is genuinely new material.
- Five distinct sets across signs, right of way, rules and safety
- A marathon that replays anything you miss until it sticks
- Explanation and citation the moment you answer
Topic drills
7 focused sets for the areas that fail the most people, plus your state's own laws on their own.
- Road signs, a short warm up or every sign in the bank
- Right of way, roundabouts, pedestrians, emergency vehicles
- Alcohol, phones and the limits that carry real penalties
Exam simulator
The real thing: your state's question count, your state's pass mark, no hints along the way.
- No feedback until the end, exactly like the day itself
- Marked the way the agency marks it, sign rules included
- A topic breakdown afterwards so you know what to fix
Four decisions that set this apart.
- 01
The format is the point
A generic twenty question quiz teaches you nothing about a fifty question exam. We match the count, the pass mark and the local quirks, including the New York rule where missing three of your four road sign questions fails you however well you did everywhere else.
- 02
Every answer names its source
Under each explanation sits the statute or official document the rule comes from. You can check us, and we would rather you did. It is the same reason every format number on this site carries the date it was last confirmed.
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Your mistakes come back
Missed questions save to a review deck in your browser and return on a widening schedule until you have them right three times in a row. No account, no email, nothing leaves your device.
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Free means all of it
There is no premium tier and no locked bank. The hardest questions sit in the free set because those are the ones that fail people. Guides pay for the site so your practice never has to.
We do not run testimonials. Here is the data instead.
Anyone can print five star quotes. These are published pass and fail figures from agency reports and public records reporting, each with its source and the date we checked it. They are the reason this site exists.
More state figures land here as agencies answer our records requests. Nothing goes on this page until we can name where it came from.
What happens while you practice.
Exact format marking
Your run is built to your state's real question count and marked against its real pass mark.
A live read on your run
A running projection tells you whether you are still on for a pass, or how many of the questions left you need.
Local rules enforced
Where a state marks a subset separately, the simulator marks it too instead of mentioning it in a footnote.
An explanation every time
Plain English on what the rule is, then the citation so you can go and read the law yourself.
A review deck that remembers
Missed questions return after a day, three days, then a week, and retire once you get them right three times running.
A breakdown at the end
Signs, right of way, rules and safety scored separately, so you know exactly what to work on next.
Read the parts nobody explains.
Automatic Fails on the Road Test
What actually ends a US road test on the spot, from examiner intervention to collisions, and how critical errors differ from point deductions.
Failed Your Permit Test? Here Is What Actually Happens Next
What really happens after a failed permit test, how retakes work in California, Texas, Florida and New York, and a 7 day plan to pass next time.
Hill Parking and Turning Your Wheels
The four hill parking wheel positions, the reasoning behind each one, and why examiners in hilly states take this question seriously.
Your test is a known quantity. Go and know it.
1059 cited questions across 51 jurisdictions, free, with nothing to sign up for. Pick your state and take the first one now.