How many questions are on the Texas DMV written test?

30. You need 21 correct to pass, so you can miss 9.

Is the Texas written test available in Spanish?

Texas offers the knowledge test in English and Spanish.

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 Texas practice test free?

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

What does this five-sided sign mean?

You are approaching a school zone or school crossing

You are turning left from a two-way street into a driveway across a double yellow line. This is:

Generally permitted, since the no-passing rule does not forbid turning

Never permitted under any circumstance

Permitted only at an intersection

Permitted only if the line is broken on your side

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

You are driving on a highway and see this sign. What should you expect ahead?

Construction or maintenance work is going on ahead

The road ahead is permanently closed to through traffic

A permanent change in the road's alignment begins here

A parking area for highway maintenance vehicles

You are at a steady red light and want to turn right. No sign prohibits it and your state allows turning right on red. Before you turn you must:

Come to a complete stop, then yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk and to traffic already on the cross street

Slow to walking pace and turn if the way looks clear

Turn as soon as the vehicle ahead of you has cleared the intersection

Wait for the light to turn green, because a red light never permits a turn

Two diamond warning signs on the same highway are the same shape and size, but one has a yellow background and the other orange. What does that difference tell a driver?

The orange sign warns of a temporary condition in a work zone; the yellow warns of a lasting condition of the road

The orange sign is advisory while the yellow sign can be enforced

The orange sign applies to trucks and the yellow sign to all vehicles

The orange sign is used at night and the yellow sign by day

The posted limit is 20 mph and you pass a stopped tow truck with its lights on. Under Texas law you must slow to:

20 mph below the limit, so zero

A police car is stopped on a Texas road with its lights flashing and you cannot change lanes. What does the Move Over law require?

Reduce your speed to 20 mph below the posted speed limit

Maintain your speed but sound your horn

Reduce your speed to 10 mph below the limit

A space marked with this sign is empty and you will only be a minute. Parking there is:

Illegal without the required placard or plate, however briefly

Allowed if you leave your hazard lights on

Allowed if no other space is free

You have been driving on a divided highway and pass this sign. What changes ahead?

Traffic will come toward you, with no median separating the two directions

The road ahead becomes one-way in your direction

The road ahead splits around a median you must keep to the right of

The road ahead finishes at a dead end

Texas DMV Practice Test 2026

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Questions on the test: 21
Correct answers to pass: 9
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The real exam

30 questions. 21 correct to pass — you may miss 9.

Questions on the test	30
Correct answers to pass	21
Wrong answers allowed	9
Time limit	None published
Minimum permit age	15 years old

Official handbook — Texas

Practice questions

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0 of 20 answeredScore: 0/2014 to pass

1.
What does this five-sided sign mean?
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — You are approaching a school zone or school crossing
The upward-pointing pentagon is used only for school signs. The fluorescent yellow-green background is reserved for pedestrian, bicycle and school warnings.
This sign carries no words at all. Candidates who memorise it as "the sign that says SCHOOL" fail to recognise the symbol version they actually meet.
2.
You are turning left from a two-way street into a driveway across a double yellow line. This is:
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — Generally permitted, since the no-passing rule does not forbid turning
Double yellow lines prohibit passing, not turning. Crossing them to enter or leave a road or driveway is normally allowed unless a sign or raised barrier says otherwise.
Rules learned as absolutes ("never cross a double yellow") lead drivers to make illegal U-turns or drive past their destination.
3.
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.
4.
You are driving on a highway and see this sign. What should you expect ahead?
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Construction or maintenance work is going on ahead
Orange is used only for temporary traffic control. Crews, equipment, lane shifts or a flagger may be ahead, so the pattern you are used to on this road may not be the pattern you meet.
Reading road work as road closed. The route normally stays open through a work zone; it is the conditions in it, not the road, that change.
5.
You are at a steady red light and want to turn right. No sign prohibits it and your state allows turning right on red. Before you turn you must:
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Come to a complete stop, then yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk and to traffic already on the cross street
The permission to turn on red is an exception granted only after a full stop. You are joining traffic that has the green, so everyone already lawfully in the intersection or crosswalk goes first.
Drivers treat a permitted right on red as a yield sign and roll through it. The stop is the condition of the permission, not a formality — and pedestrians crossing with the walk signal are the ones hit when it is skipped.
6.
Two diamond warning signs on the same highway are the same shape and size, but one has a yellow background and the other orange. What does that difference tell a driver?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — The orange sign warns of a temporary condition in a work zone; the yellow warns of a lasting condition of the road
Background colour is part of the message. Orange is reserved for temporary traffic control such as construction, maintenance and incident zones, so what it warns of was probably not there last month. Yellow marks a condition built into the road itself.
Seeing orange as just a brighter yellow. The colour change is the warning: the road ahead is not the road you learned.
7.
Which left-turn indication tells you that oncoming traffic is being held by a red signal?
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — A steady green arrow
Only the steady green arrow is a protected movement. The flashing yellow arrow and the circular green both allow the turn while oncoming traffic still has a green of its own.
Any indication that lets you turn is read as protection. Two of these permit the turn while sending traffic straight at you, and the difference is the entire point of the arrow.
8.
A large white X with the letters RR painted on the pavement warns of:
Not quiteCorrect answer: D — A railroad crossing ahead
The pavement marking backs up the round advance warning sign. Both appear before the crossing itself.
Pavement markings are read less often than signs, but in snow or heavy traffic the sign may be the one you cannot see.
9.
The posted limit is 20 mph and you pass a stopped tow truck with its lights on. Under Texas law you must slow to:
Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Less than 5 mph
Where the posted limit is below 25 mph, the rule changes: you slow to less than 5 mph rather than to 20 mph below the limit.
Subtracting 20 from a 20 mph limit gives a nonsensical answer, which is exactly why the statute writes a separate rule for slow roads.
10.
A police car is stopped on a Texas road with its lights flashing and you cannot change lanes. What does the Move Over law require?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Reduce your speed to 20 mph below the posted speed limit
The law gives two options: move out of the lane closest to the stopped vehicle if the road has multiple lanes in your direction, or slow to 20 mph below the posted limit.
Drivers who cannot change lanes often do nothing. Slowing is not a courtesy here, it is the alternative the statute names.
11.
A space marked with this sign is empty and you will only be a minute. Parking there is:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Illegal without the required placard or plate, however briefly
Accessible spaces are reserved by permit, not by duration. There is no short-stay exception, and the fines are among the highest of any parking violation.
Hazard lights are widely believed to legalise a brief stop. They signal a hazard; they do not grant permission.
12.
You have been driving on a divided highway and pass this sign. What changes ahead?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Traffic will come toward you, with no median separating the two directions
The median that has been keeping the two directions apart stops here. From this point the lane to your left carries oncoming vehicles, so keep right and treat the centre line, not a strip of grass, as your protection.
Staying in the left lane out of habit from the divided section. Past this sign that lane belongs to traffic coming the other way.
13.
This five-sided sign warns you that:
Not quiteCorrect answer: D — You are approaching a school zone or school crossing
The five-sided (pentagon) shape is used only for school zones and school crossings. Its fluorescent yellow-green colour is chosen because it is the most visible colour to the human eye in daylight.
Railroad crossings use a round yellow sign or a white crossbuck — not a pentagon.
14.
This sign is posted at a median or obstruction. It tells you to:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Pass to the right of the divider ahead
It marks which side of a physical obstruction — a median, island or barrier — traffic must pass. It is about the object immediately ahead, not lane discipline in general.
It reads like the general "slower traffic keep right" rule. It is a specific instruction about the divider directly in front of you.
15.
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.
16.
What does a bicycle symbol painted inside a marked lane at the edge of the roadway indicate?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — A bike lane reserved for bicycles, which drivers must not travel in
A marked bike lane is a travel lane for bicycles. Drivers generally may enter it only to make a turn, and then must yield to cyclists already in it.
Drivers treat the bike lane as an extra right-turn or waiting lane. Merging into it before a turn is allowed in many states — but only after yielding.
17.
This sign appears on the LEFT side of the road. What does that placement tell you?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — It marks the start of a zone where you may not pass
The pennant is deliberately placed on the left, where a driver about to pull out to pass is already looking. It marks the beginning of the no-passing zone for your direction.
Signs on the left feel like they belong to the other side of the road. This one is on the left precisely because that is where your eyes go before passing.
18.
The light turns yellow as you approach an intersection and you are too close to stop safely. What should you do?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Continue through the intersection with caution
Yellow means the light is about to turn red: stop if you can do so safely. If you are already so close that stopping would require unsafe braking, continue through carefully — slamming on the brakes invites a rear-end collision.
Yellow does not mean 'speed up to beat the light', and it does not mean brake at any cost either.
19.
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.
20.
This sign is posted at the entrance to a paved way. What does it mean?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — No motor vehicle of any kind may go beyond this point
The words NO MOTOR VEHICLES close that road or path to motorised traffic altogether, which is why the sign appears at trails, plazas and pedestrian streets. Walkers and cyclists are unaffected unless their own prohibition signs are posted.
Reading it as a restriction on cars only. The wording covers every motor vehicle, motorcycles and mopeds included.

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How many questions are on the Texas DMV written test?: 30. You need 21 correct to pass, so you can miss 9.
What score do you need to pass in Texas?: 21 out of 30 — 70%.
How old do you have to be to get a learner's permit in Texas?: 15 years old.
Is the Texas written test available in Spanish?: Texas offers the knowledge test in English and Spanish.
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 Texas 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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Practice questions

What does this five-sided sign mean?

You are turning left from a two-way street into a driveway across a double yellow line. This is:

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

You are driving on a highway and see this sign. What should you expect ahead?

You are at a steady red light and want to turn right. No sign prohibits it and your state allows turning right on red. Before you turn you must:

Two diamond warning signs on the same highway are the same shape and size, but one has a yellow background and the other orange. What does that difference tell a driver?

Which left-turn indication tells you that oncoming traffic is being held by a red signal?

A large white X with the letters RR painted on the pavement warns of:

The posted limit is 20 mph and you pass a stopped tow truck with its lights on. Under Texas law you must slow to:

A police car is stopped on a Texas road with its lights flashing and you cannot change lanes. What does the Move Over law require?

A space marked with this sign is empty and you will only be a minute. Parking there is:

You have been driving on a divided highway and pass this sign. What changes ahead?

This five-sided sign warns you that:

This sign is posted at a median or obstruction. It tells you to:

White lines painted on the roadway are used to separate:

What does a bicycle symbol painted inside a marked lane at the edge of the roadway indicate?

This sign appears on the LEFT side of the road. What does that placement tell you?

The light turns yellow as you approach an intersection and you are too close to stop safely. What should you do?

Which shape is used only for the YIELD sign?

This sign is posted at the entrance to a paved way. What does it mean?

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