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Colorado permit test prep.

Build your knowledge of Colorado driving rules with 46 short lessons, 62 road-sign illustrations, and 637 study questions based on the course’s driver handbook edition.

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A winding country road with a red car and road signs
Study questions
637
Driving lessons
46
Signs & illustrations
62
Course units
11

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Colorado practice test

See the 25-question simulation, the 20-correct passing threshold, sample questions, and source notes.

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Recognition

Colorado road signs

Browse 62 signs and illustrations, with their meanings and the action to take.

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Reference

Colorado driver handbook

Find the chapter list, source PDF, and companion lessons for the handbook in this course.

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A clear route through the handbook

The 46 lessons below follow 11 course units. Open a lesson to read its rules, examples, and source page references, or use the study app for its checkpoint quiz.

Unit 1 · 4 lessons

Getting Your Colorado License

Permits, the drive test, GDL rules, losing your license

  1. Who needs a license & getting your permit
  2. The driving skills test
  3. Minor drivers: permits, logs & GDL limits
  4. How you can lose your license

Unit 2 · 4 lessons

Seat Belts & Impaired Driving

Restraint laws, BAC limits, drugs, DUI/DWAI penalties

  1. Seat belts & child restraints
  2. DUI, DWAI & blood alcohol
  3. Drugs, marijuana & polydrug impairment
  4. Impaired driving penalties & express consent

Unit 3 · 3 lessons

Before You Drive & Basic Driving

Fitness to drive, vehicle checks, basic controls

  1. Fit to drive: vision, hearing, fatigue & more
  2. Checking your vehicle
  3. Basic controls: starting, steering & backing

Unit 4 · 5 lessons

Traffic Signals, Signs & Markings

Lights, sign shapes and colors, pavement markings

  1. Traffic signals & arrows
  2. Regulatory signs
  3. Warning, guide & service signs
  4. Bicycle, slow-moving & disabled parking signs
  5. Pavement markings

Unit 5 · 4 lessons

Lane Controls & Right-of-Way

Special lanes, roundabouts, who goes first

  1. Lane rules & special-use lanes
  2. Roundabouts
  3. Who has the right-of-way
  4. Emergency vehicles, plows, buses & work zones

Unit 6 · 4 lessons

Speed, Turning & Parking

Speed limits, signaling, turnabouts, parking rules

  1. Speed limits & stopping distance
  2. Signaling & turning correctly
  3. U-turns & turnabouts
  4. Parking rules

Unit 7 · 3 lessons

Freeway Driving, Lane Changes & Passing

Merging, changing lanes, safe passing

  1. Entering, driving & leaving the freeway
  2. Changing lanes safely
  3. Passing rules

Unit 8 · 5 lessons

Weather & Special Conditions

Night, rain, snow and ice, mountain, rural and work zones

  1. Night driving, hills & curves
  2. Bad weather & hydroplaning
  3. Snow, ice & winter driving
  4. Mountain & rural driving
  5. Construction & work zones

Unit 9 · 3 lessons

Defensive & Safe Driving

Scanning, following distance, phones, traffic stops

  1. Scanning & following distance
  2. Phones, steering habits & traffic flow
  3. When you're pulled over

Unit 10 · 7 lessons

Sharing the Road

Trucks, buses, school buses, trains, bicyclists, motorcycles, pedestrians

  1. Large trucks & buses
  2. School buses
  3. Railroad crossings
  4. Light rail
  5. Sharing the road with bicyclists
  6. Motorcycles & common cyclist crashes
  7. Pedestrians

Unit 11 · 4 lessons

Aggressive Driving & Emergencies

Distraction, road rage, collision avoidance, crash duties

  1. Distracted, aggressive & reckless driving
  2. Avoiding collisions & animals
  3. Vehicle emergencies
  4. After a crash, Move Over & first aid

Know which test you are studying for

Colorado Driving Knowledge Test

This Roadwise course uses a 25-question practice test with 20 correct answers needed to pass. The format can depend on your age, license class, or application type.

The CO Driver Handbook (DR 2337) states the written test covers signs, DUI, driving rules, safety, and legal items, but does not itself state the question count or passing score. The official Colorado DMV site (dmv.colorado.gov) could not be checked directly for these figures, so this uses the most consistently corroborated figure across several independent CO permit-test prep sites: 25 questions, 80% (20/25) to pass. No source indicates CO scores a signs section separately, so the practice test uses one combined score.

See format details and sample questions