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Independent study tool. Not the DMV. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency.

Proof, not paywalls.

The California permit practice test that shows its work. Every question points to the exact page of the official handbook, so you can check it yourself.

Verified against the current official CA Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), checked July 2026.1

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Free practice forever. Pro $24.99 once, never billed again, updates included. No subscriptions ever.

What is Pro? The free site plus extra exam analytics and study tools. Pro is not on sale yet, and everything you practice with today stays free forever.

  • The biggest name in test prep charges $29 a week.
  • Pro will be $24.99 once, because a permit is a three-week need, not a subscription.
  • No auto-renew, no trial that bills you, no subscription ever.

A practice site costs almost nothing to run. No ads to sell, no sales team. You are not the product. The money from Pro will pay for keeping every question verified against the current official handbook, forever.

Stored on this device only. We have no servers collecting emails yet, and this page will say so honestly until we do.

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Answer it, then read the receipt

Pick an answer and the proof prints: the handbook section, the PDF page, the revision. Every question on this site works this way.

White square sign showing a red circle and slash over a black right-turn arrow

A regulatory sign posted at an intersection reads NO RIGHT TURN. What must a driver do?

01 How it works

1234A sign reads NO RIGHT TURN.Turn right anywayDo not turn rightTap the proofCITATIONLaws and Rules of the RoadPDF page 42DL 600 REV. 6/2025READINESSReady

Five seconds: answer, tap the proof, the receipt prints, readiness fills.

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Evidence

Check anyone. Including us.

Two of the biggest test-prep sites disagree about California's passing score. One says 39 of 46. The other says 38 of 46. Neither shows a source. We show ours: the DMV does not publish official counts, so we report what recent test-takers consistently say, we use the stricter line, and we link our reasoning. That is the standard every claim on this site meets.3

Standards

We don't cut corners

02 Standards strip

And when we get one wrong, it goes on record, dated, in the public changelog.

Real signs, not lookalikes

Official MUTCD images, straight from the source

Every road sign you practice on is the federal government's own artwork, never a redrawn imitation.

03 Specimen strip

Road sign images are official public-domain MUTCD graphics from the Federal Highway Administration.2

Verified, or deleted

Every question earns its place, or it does not ship

We wrote more questions than we shipped. Any question we could not pin to the handbook was deleted, not patched.

04 Verification funnel

407
Written
34
Killed
373
Shipped
373 shipped34 killed

Every shipped question was checked twice, by independent verifiers, against the handbook itself. The ones that failed were deleted, not fixed up.

05 Verification ledger

Verification ledger: questions written, killed with reasons, and shipped
StageQuestions
Written407
Killed: copied the handbook's wording-25
Killed: ambiguous or two defensible answers-6
Killed: factually wrong against the text-2
Killed: explanation claim beyond the cited page (2026-07-16 sample audit)-1
Shipped373

Plain answers

Questions, answered

How many questions are on the California permit test?

The DMV requires a score of 80 percent but does not publish official question counts. Recent test-takers consistently report 46 questions (pass at 38) if you are under 18, and 36 questions (pass at 30) if you are 18 or older. Our mock exam uses those stricter reported lines.

What is the citation on every question?

Three things: the handbook section, the PDF page in the official file, and the handbook's own revision marker (DL 600 REV. 6/2025). Tap the proof on any answer to print it, then open the official handbook and check it yourself.

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All questions, answered plainly

More states

More states, same bar

A state appears here only after its full pipeline passes: the official manual sourced and checksummed, questions written fresh from that state's own law, two independent verification passes, an independent audit of a random sample against the official PDF, and machine checks on every claim. Nothing below is marked available until it is. How a state gets added

Sources

  1. 1. California Driver's Handbook (DL 600 REV. 6/2025), California DMV. The document every citation on this site points into.
  2. 2. Standard Highway Signs, 2024 Edition (Release 3), Federal Highway Administration. The official public-domain vector files behind every sign image here. Retrieved July 10, 2026.
  3. 3. Instruction permits, California DMV. The official 80 percent passing requirement. The DMV publishes no question counts there; the counts we state are what recent test-takers consistently report. Checked July 10, 2026.