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California permit test: practice test with original questions from the driver handbook
Practice for the California driver's permit knowledge test with 54 original questions written from the California driver handbook (2025), in English and Spanish.
These 54 practice questions were written from California Driver's Handbook (2025) and checked against it on Oct 28, 2026.
54 questions · Modes: Study, Topic drill, Daily 5
Guide: California Permit Test: How Many Questions and How Many You Can Miss
About this test
Practice for the California driver's permit (learner's) knowledge test with original questions written from the official California driver handbook (2025). Every correct answer is backed by a passage of the handbook and checked by two independent verifiers.
- Study: every question with a short explanation.
- Topic drills: signs and markings, rules of the road, safe driving, alcohol and penalties, your license.
- Mock test: not offered, because the state does not publish the number of questions on its test.
The questions are written in our own words in English and Spanish; this is not the state's question bank. Signs are described in words (no images).
Topics
- Lane markings · 7
- Parking · 6
- Traffic signals · 6
- Sharing the road · 5
- Types of lanes · 4
- Child safety · 2
- Emergency vehicles · 2
- Headlights · 2
- Licensing · 2
- Pedestrians · 2
- Railroad crossings · 2
- Safe driving · 2
- Alcohol and drugs · 1
- Driver health · 1
- Emergencies · 1
- Merging and exiting · 1
- Passing · 1
- Pedestrian signals · 1
- Right of way · 1
- School buses · 1
- Signaling · 1
- Speed limits · 1
- Traffic signs · 1
- Turns · 1
Sources and version
- California Driver's HandbookCovers: 2025
Covers: 2025 · Verified current as of Oct 28, 2026
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How this page was made
Built from the sources listed above and reviewed before it was published. Where the source licence allows it the questions keep the source wording; otherwise they are original questions based on the source. Every answer shows its source. This is not legal, immigration, medical or financial advice.