How many questions are on the Mississippi DMV written test?

Mississippi does not publish a figure we could verify against an official handbook, so the practice exam here uses a common 25-question format with 20 correct to pass. Check the Mississippi DMV before your appointment.

Is the Mississippi written test available in Spanish?

Most states offer the knowledge test in Spanish. Confirm with the Mississippi DMV, and practise in Spanish here.

Are these the real DMV questions?

No — and nobody who has them is allowed to publish them. Every question here is written from the official driver handbook and the federal MUTCD sign standard, which is what the real test is written from too.

Is this Mississippi practice test free?

Yes. Every question on this page is free, with no account and no email.

What does this symbol sign tell you?

Parking here is reserved for permit holders

A parking area is ahead on the right

Hands-free phone use while driving is:

Still a significant distraction, because the impairment is cognitive rather than manual

Completely safe, since both hands stay on the wheel

Only a problem for inexperienced drivers

Equivalent to talking to a passenger

You should signal a turn or lane change:

Well before the manoeuvre, so others can react

Only when another vehicle is nearby

After checking that the way is clear

A yellow plaque like this under a curve warning sign shows:

The recommended safe speed for that curve in good conditions

The legal speed limit for that section

The speed at which the curve was surveyed

You are approaching a green light that has been green since you first saw it several blocks back. What is the safest assumption?

It is likely to change soon and you should be ready to stop

It will stay green because it has been green a long time

You have priority and need not cover the brake

You should accelerate to clear it

Using the three-second rule, you should begin counting when:

The vehicle ahead passes a fixed object such as a sign or pole

A broken white line between two lanes tells you:

Lane changes are permitted when it is safe

Lane changes are discouraged but legal

The lane to your right is ending

A truck ahead of you begins to swing left before making a right turn. You should:

Stay back — it needs the extra width and may close the gap on your side

Pass on the right while there is space

Sound your horn to signal the mistake

A yellow diamond-shaped sign like this one tells you that:

There is a hazard or a change in road conditions ahead

A law is being enforced at this point

You are entering a construction zone

There is a service or rest area nearby

A LOW SHOULDER sign warns you that:

The shoulder sits below the pavement edge and dropping onto it can pull the car

The shoulder is closed to all vehicles

The shoulder is soft and will not hold a vehicle

Parking on the shoulder is prohibited

Mississippi DMV Practice Test 2026

Take a free Mississippi DMV practice test built on the state's real written exam: 25 questions, 20 correct to pass. Every answer explained. No sign-up.

General practice exam

25
Questions on the test: 20
Correct answers to pass: 5
Wrong answers allowed: 216
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The real exam

This state's exact question count and passing score are not published in a form we could verify, so this is a general practice exam rather than a replica of the state test.

Questions on the test	25
Correct answers to pass	20
Wrong answers allowed	5
Time limit	None published

Practice questions

20 questions, answered right here. Tap an option to see why.

0 of 20 answeredScore: 0/2016 to pass

1.
What does this symbol sign tell you?
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — You may not park here
The letter P inside a red circle with a diagonal slash is the symbol form of NO PARKING. The P on its own would point you towards parking; the red circle and slash reverse it into a prohibition.
Seeing the P and reading the sign as permission. On a regulatory sign the red slash always cancels the symbol underneath it.
2.
Hands-free phone use while driving is:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Still a significant distraction, because the impairment is cognitive rather than manual
The measurable loss is in attention, not in hands. Drivers on hands-free calls look at hazards without registering them.
Hands-free laws are read as a safety endorsement. They address the manual part of the problem, which is the smaller part.
3.
You should signal a turn or lane change:
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Well before the manoeuvre, so others can react
A signal is a prediction, not a commentary. Most states specify a minimum distance; the underlying point is that it must arrive before you act.
Signalling and turning in the same motion gives following drivers no information they can use.
4.
A yellow plaque like this under a curve warning sign shows:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — The recommended safe speed for that curve in good conditions
Advisory speeds are recommendations for ideal conditions. They are not separately enforceable as a limit, but exceeding one in rain or at night is exactly how cars leave the road.
Because it is not a legal limit, drivers dismiss it. It is a measured figure for a dry road — in the wet it is already optimistic.
5.
You are approaching a green light that has been green since you first saw it several blocks back. What is the safest assumption?
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — It is likely to change soon and you should be ready to stop
A signal that has been green for a long time is nearer the end of its cycle, not the start. Experienced drivers call this a stale green and prepare to stop.
The intuition runs backwards: a long green feels reliable, when it is actually the one most likely to change as you arrive.
6.
Using the three-second rule, you should begin counting when:
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — The vehicle ahead passes a fixed object such as a sign or pole
Pick a fixed roadside object, start counting when the car ahead passes it, and you should not reach it before three. It works at any speed, which is why it replaced fixed car-length rules.
Car-length rules require you to estimate both length and speed under pressure. The three-second count needs neither.
7.
A broken white line between two lanes tells you:
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Lane changes are permitted when it is safe
Broken means permitted. White means the traffic beside you is going the same direction.
Drivers who conflate broken white with broken yellow think they may cross into oncoming lanes to pass on any broken line.
8.
When parking facing DOWNHILL at a kerb, you should turn your front wheels:
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Toward the kerb
If the car rolls, the front wheels should carry it into the kerb rather than into the road. Downhill it rolls forward, so the wheels point in.
The rule is memorised as a pair and mixed up. Reason it out instead: which way will the car roll, and where do you want it to stop?
9.
A truck ahead of you begins to swing left before making a right turn. You should:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Stay back — it needs the extra width and may close the gap on your side
A long vehicle must swing wide to bring the trailer around. The space that opens on its right is the space the trailer is about to occupy.
The gap looks like an invitation. Vehicles that accept it are crushed between the trailer and the kerb.
10.
A yellow diamond-shaped sign like this one tells you that:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — There is a hazard or a change in road conditions ahead
Yellow diamonds are general warning signs: a curve, a merge, a hill or another hazard is ahead. They advise you to slow down and prepare, but they do not by themselves carry a legal speed limit.
Orange diamonds — not yellow — mean a work zone. Same shape, different colour, different meaning.
11.
A LOW SHOULDER sign warns you that:
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — The shoulder sits below the pavement edge and dropping onto it can pull the car
There is a vertical drop between the lane and the shoulder. Catching that edge can jerk the steering; the recovery is to slow first and ease back on, not to yank the wheel.
The instinctive correction — steering hard back onto the pavement — is what turns a dropped wheel into a rollover or a head-on.
12.
Which shape is used only for the YIELD sign?
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — A triangle pointing downward
The downward-pointing equilateral triangle belongs to YIELD alone. An upward-pointing triangle is not a standard US sign shape at all.
A yield sign is often remembered as "the red and white one", but colour can be shared. Shape is what is exclusive.
13.
You have signalled and begun to change lanes when you see a vehicle in your blind spot. Your signal:
Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Does not give you the right to take the lane — you must abort the change
A signal announces an intention. It does not create right-of-way, and traffic already in the lane keeps it.
Signal-and-move is treated as a claim on the lane. It is a request, and it never replaces the shoulder check.
14.
What does this sign require you to do?
Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Slow down and give the right-of-way to traffic and pedestrians ahead
A downward-pointing triangle always means YIELD. Slow down, be ready to stop, and let cross traffic and pedestrians go first. You only have to stop if traffic requires it.
Yield does not mean stop every time — but it does mean you must stop if there is any traffic or pedestrian with the right-of-way.
15.
A school bus ahead has AMBER (yellow) lights flashing but the stop arm is not out. This means:
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — The bus is about to stop — prepare to stop behind it
Amber is the warning phase, like a yellow traffic light. It is your cue to slow and prepare, not the last chance to get past.
Treating amber as "still allowed" is exactly the behaviour that puts a car alongside the bus when the doors open.
16.
Blue signs point you toward:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Motorist services such as hospitals, fuel, food and lodging
Blue is the general-service colour. The H marks a hospital; the same blue background carries fuel, food, lodging and telephone symbols.
Blue and green both look like "information", but blue is about services beside the road and green is about where the road goes.
17.
A steady yellow arrow means:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — The protected turn is ending and you should prepare to stop
Like a steady yellow ball, the steady yellow arrow is the end of a phase. The arrow is about to go red for that movement.
Drivers who read every yellow arrow as "yield and go" enter the intersection just as oncoming traffic gets its green.
18.
Why is this warning sign a bright yellow-green rather than the usual yellow?
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — That colour is reserved for pedestrian, bicycle and school warnings
Fluorescent yellow-green is set aside for warnings about people outside vehicles. The distinct colour is meant to break through the ordinary yellow you stop noticing.
It is not a faded or unofficial yellow. The colour itself carries the message: a person, not a road feature, is the hazard.
19.
An orange DETOUR sign directs you to:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — A marked alternative route around a closure
A detour is a signed route around a closed section. Following the whole sequence of detour signs matters — leaving it partway usually strands you at the closure.
Navigation apps often try to route back to the closed road. The posted detour reflects a closure the map may not know about.
20.
White lines painted on the roadway are used to separate:
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Lanes of traffic moving in the same direction
White separates lanes going the same way; yellow separates opposing directions. Remembering just this one pairing answers a surprising number of pavement-marking questions.
Yellow — not white — divides opposing traffic. Mixing them up is the single most common marking error.

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How many questions are on the Mississippi DMV written test?: Mississippi does not publish a figure we could verify against an official handbook, so the practice exam here uses a common 25-question format with 20 correct to pass. Check the Mississippi DMV before your appointment.
What score do you need to pass in Mississippi?: 20 out of 25 — 80%.
Is the Mississippi written test available in Spanish?: Most states offer the knowledge test in Spanish. Confirm with the Mississippi DMV, and practise in Spanish here.
Are these the real DMV questions?: No — and nobody who has them is allowed to publish them. Every question here is written from the official driver handbook and the federal MUTCD sign standard, which is what the real test is written from too.
Is this Mississippi practice test free?: Yes. Every question on this page is free, with no account and no email.

Where this comes from

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), 11th Edition — U.S. Federal Highway Administration
MUTCD sign artwork on Wikimedia Commons — Wikimedia Commons — files created by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration
California Driver Handbook — California DMV
Texas Driver Handbook — Texas Department of Public Safety
Florida Driver License Handbook — Florida HSMV
New York State Driver's Manual — New York State DMV
Illinois Rules of the Road — Illinois Secretary of State
Pennsylvania Driver's Manual — PennDOT

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What does this symbol sign tell you?

Hands-free phone use while driving is:

You should signal a turn or lane change:

A yellow plaque like this under a curve warning sign shows:

You are approaching a green light that has been green since you first saw it several blocks back. What is the safest assumption?

Using the three-second rule, you should begin counting when:

A broken white line between two lanes tells you:

When parking facing DOWNHILL at a kerb, you should turn your front wheels:

A truck ahead of you begins to swing left before making a right turn. You should:

A yellow diamond-shaped sign like this one tells you that:

A LOW SHOULDER sign warns you that:

Which shape is used only for the YIELD sign?

You have signalled and begun to change lanes when you see a vehicle in your blind spot. Your signal:

What does this sign require you to do?

A school bus ahead has AMBER (yellow) lights flashing but the stop arm is not out. This means:

Blue signs point you toward:

A steady yellow arrow means:

Why is this warning sign a bright yellow-green rather than the usual yellow?

An orange DETOUR sign directs you to:

White lines painted on the roadway are used to separate:

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