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Texas permit test prep.

Build your knowledge of Texas driving rules with 62 short lessons, 100 road-sign illustrations, and 798 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
798
Driving lessons
62
Signs & illustrations
100
Course units
12

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Practice

Texas practice test

See the 30-question simulation, the 21-correct passing threshold, sample questions, and source notes.

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Recognition

Texas road signs

Browse 100 signs and illustrations, with their meanings and the action to take.

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Reference

Texas 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 62 lessons below follow 12 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 · 8 lessons

Your License to Drive

Permits, GDL, classes, exams, renewals, suspensions

  1. Learner license, VOE & hardship license
  2. GDL phases & provisional license
  3. License classes A, B, C and M
  4. Who may drive in Texas, ID cards & veterans
  5. Applying: documents, exams & the driving test
  6. Renewal, replacement & address changes
  7. Suspensions, revocations & cancellations
  8. Denials, driving while invalid & occupational licenses

Unit 2 · 4 lessons

Vehicle Requirements, Registration & Insurance

Equipment, inspection, registration, liability insurance

  1. Required equipment
  2. Prohibited equipment, optional equipment & the slow-moving vehicle emblem
  3. Inspection & registration
  4. Insurance & financial responsibility

Unit 3 · 5 lessons

Right-of-Way

Intersections, trains, emergency vehicles, school buses, pedestrians

  1. Right-of-way at intersections
  2. Railroad crossings
  3. Yielding to emergency vehicles
  4. School buses
  5. Pedestrians & crosswalk signals

Unit 4 · 8 lessons

Signals, Signs & Markings

Signals, sign colors and shapes, every sign table, markings, work zones

  1. Traffic signals
  2. Sign colors & shapes
  3. Warning signs I: signals, curves & road changes
  4. Warning signs II: intersections, surfaces & hazards
  5. Regulatory signs
  6. Guide signs & lane-use signals
  7. Railroad signs & pavement markings
  8. Work zones & construction devices

Unit 5 · 3 lessons

Signaling, Passing & Turning

Signals, passing rules, turning steps

  1. Signaling
  2. Passing
  3. Turning

Unit 6 · 4 lessons

Parking, Stopping & Standing

No-stop zones, distances, disabled parking, parallel and hill parking

  1. Where you can't stop, stand or park & leaving your car
  2. Parking distance rules
  3. Disabled parking
  4. Parallel parking, hills & leaving a space

Unit 7 · 3 lessons

Speed and Speed Limits

Following distance, stopping distance, limits, move over, racing

  1. Following distance, stopping distance & vision
  2. Speed limits
  3. Slow down or move over & street racing

Unit 8 · 8 lessons

Special Driving Situations

Highways, night, emergencies, weather, sharing the road, distraction

  1. Highway driving & highway hypnosis
  2. Headlights & night driving
  3. Breakdowns, skids & vehicle emergencies
  4. Winter driving, roundabouts & floods
  5. Sharing the road with trucks
  6. Sharing the road with motorcycles
  7. Sharing the road with bicycles & light rail
  8. Distracted driving & texting

Unit 9 · 5 lessons

Alcohol and Drugs

Effects, BAC, implied consent, zero tolerance, DWI penalties

  1. How alcohol and drugs affect driving
  2. BAC, legal limits & implied consent
  3. Zero tolerance & minors' non-driving alcohol offenses
  4. Minors: testing, DUI & DWI penalties
  5. Open container & adult DWI penalties

Unit 10 · 3 lessons

Motor Vehicle Crashes

Duties at the scene, reports, penalties, first aid

  1. Duties after a crash with injury or death
  2. Property-damage crashes & written reports
  3. Hit-and-run, aiding the injured & insurance terms

Unit 11 · 3 lessons

Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety

Pedestrian rules, bicycle laws, equipment

  1. Pedestrian laws & safety
  2. Bicycle traffic laws
  3. Bicycle equipment, shared lanes & safety

Unit 12 · 8 lessons

Additional Safety & Traffic Stops

Belts, open beds, traffic stops, road rage, cargo, glossary

  1. Safety belts, child seats & defensive driving
  2. Open beds, trailers & towed boats
  3. When stopped by law enforcement
  4. Road rage & aggressive driving
  5. Cargo, towing & carbon monoxide
  6. Low-speed vehicles, scooters & driving with a disability
  7. Key terms A to L
  8. Key terms M to Z

Know which test you are studying for

Texas DPS Class C Knowledge (Written) Exam

This Roadwise course uses a 30-question practice test with 21 correct answers needed to pass. The format can depend on your age, license class, or application type.

The Texas Driver Handbook itself states only that a grade of 70% or better is required to pass any knowledge exam (p.13) and does not give a fixed question count. The 30-question format with 21 needed to pass is corroborated by multiple third-party TX permit-test prep sites (e.g. driving-tests.org, nextdoordriving.com, dmv-permit-test.com) referencing the official DPS Class C knowledge exam; some prep sites describe it informally as split into a road-signs portion and a traffic-laws portion, but no separately-scored sections are documented on the official DPS site, so the practice test uses one combined score.

See format details and sample questions