The Knowledge Test
Virginia's knowledge examination and the vision screening that goes with it, and what an honest practice test can and cannot give you.
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Virginia's "permit test" is the written or automated knowledge examination described in Va. Code § 46.2-335 A, taken together with a vision examination before DMV may issue a learner's permit. Motorcycle learner's permit applicants take an automated motorcycle test as well. That is the whole statutory description of it — the number of questions, the passing score and the wording of the questions are DMV's to set, not the General Assembly's.
Which is why these pages do not print a question bank. The examination's questions are not published as an official list, so any site showing you "the real Virginia DMV test questions" is showing you something it made up. What is public is the Virginia Driver's Manual the examination is built from, and the free practice material DMV builds on it: a Driver's License Study Guide with practice questions, an interactive manual carrying them in English and Spanish, and a section of the manual headed Sample Knowledge Exams. These pages explain the examination, say plainly where that official material lives, and set out the one consequence of failing that almost no test site mentions: after a third failure, § 46.2-325 B stops you taking a fourth attempt until you complete a course.
All guides
- VA DMV Sample Test: What the Exam Covers, Section by Section
A DMV Virginia test sample exists in exactly two official places. Here is where they are, what the exam is drawn from, and how its two parts are scored.
- Is There an Official Virginia Practice Test? Permit Prep, Explained
Virginia permit test practice done honestly: DMV's free practice questions, the manual's own sample exams, and why no site has the real question bank.
- VA Learner's Permit Test: Two Exams Before DMV Issues One
The learner's permit VA test is two exams under Va. Code 46.2-335: a knowledge examination and a vision examination, with 40 questions in two parts.
- Examen del DMV de Virginia en español: cómo es y cómo se aprueba
El examen teórico de manejo de Virginia se ofrece en español: 10 preguntas de señales, todas correctas, y 30 generales, con 24 correctas para aprobar.