Free Georgia DMV Car / Permit Practice Test 2026
The Georgia Car / Permit knowledge test has 40 questions, and you need 30 correct (75%) to pass. Practice free with questions written from the official Georgia driver handbook — every one has a clear explanation, and you can retake as often as you like with no sign-up.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
What's on the Georgia written test
The Georgia Car / Permit knowledge test has 40 questions; you need 30 correct (75%) to pass.
Based on the official Georgia exam format — always confirm current details with your state DMV.
Practice by topic
Focus on one area at a time — each topic has its own set of Georgia practice questions.
Learn the shapes, colors, and meanings of regulatory, warning, and guide signs — from stop and yield to construction and school-zone signs.
Speed limits, turning and signaling rules, headlight and seat-belt requirements, and the everyday laws every driver must follow.
How to read traffic signals, lane lines, and pavement markings — including yellow and white lines, arrows, and flashing lights.
Who goes first at intersections, four-way stops, roundabouts, and crosswalks, and how to yield to pedestrians and emergency vehicles.
Following distance, scanning, blind spots, using your lights, and the habits that prevent crashes and keep you in control.
Driving safely around motorcycles, bicycles, large trucks, pedestrians, and school buses — and knowing who has the right of way.
Blood alcohol limits, zero-tolerance and implied-consent laws, and how alcohol and drugs — legal or not — affect your driving.
Legal and illegal parking, colored curbs, distances from hydrants and crossings, and how to park safely on hills.
Choosing a safe speed, keeping a space cushion, adjusting for weather and traffic, and understanding stopping distance.
What to do when things go wrong — brake failure, tire blowouts, skids, and stalling on railroad tracks.
The point system, license suspension, provisional-license rules, insurance requirements, and other licensing basics.
How to pass the first time
- Read the official Georgia driver handbook at least once before test day.
- Practice by topic to find your weak spots, then fix them.
- Take full-length practice tests until you pass comfortably every time.
- Read every explanation — understanding beats memorizing.
Georgia Car / Permit test — frequently asked questions
How many questions are on the Georgia Car / Permit test?
The Georgia Car / Permit knowledge test has 40 questions, and you need 30 correct (75%) to pass. Our practice tests mirror that format.
How many questions can I miss on the Georgia Car / Permit test?
You can miss up to 10 of the 40 questions and still pass — you need 30 correct, which is 75%.
Can I retake the practice test?
Yes — practice as often as you like, completely free. The questions and answer choices are shuffled each time.
Can I take the Georgia practice test in Spanish?
Yes. Every question here is available in English and Spanish — switch languages anytime. Many states also offer the real knowledge test in languages other than English; confirm what Georgia offers with your DMV.
Can I practice on my phone?
Yes. The practice tests work in any mobile or desktop browser — no app or sign-up needed — so you can study anywhere.
Are these the real DMV test questions?
No. Our questions are original, written from the current official Georgia driver handbook to match the real test's topics and style. We are not affiliated with any DMV or government agency.
What's the best way to study?
Read the Georgia driver handbook, practice by topic to target weak areas, and finish with full-length tests until you consistently pass.
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Georgia Car / Permit questions with answers
20 sample questions from the Georgia Car / Permit question bank — each with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the section of the official handbook it comes from.
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1. What is the correct meaning of a yellow diamond-shaped sign with an arrow that curves one way then the other?
Correct answer: A curve in one direction followed by a curve in the opposite direction.
A curve in one direction followed by a curve in the opposite direction. (This is the "Reverse Curve" sign.)
2. What must you do when a pedestrian is crossing in a marked crosswalk ahead of you?
Correct answer: Stop and yield the right-of-way to the pedestrian
You must stop and yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Never try to drive around them.
3. You have just moved to Georgia from another state and intend to drive here. How long do you have to obtain a Georgia license or permit?
Correct answer: 30 days
Georgia law gives a new resident who wants to drive on the roads of this state thirty days to get a Georgia license or permit.
Source: Georgia Driver's Manual — General Licensing Information
4. In rain, fog, or other bad weather, how should you adjust the space you keep behind the car ahead?
Correct answer: Increase it and leave more room than usual
The manual says the gap behind the vehicle ahead should be even larger in bad weather, in construction zones, in heavy traffic, and at night, because you need more room to stop safely.
5. A large truck ahead of you swings wide to the left before making a right turn. You should:
Correct answer: Stay back and never squeeze between the truck and the curb
Large trucks need much more room to turn and make wide right turns, which is why the manual calls the No-Zone along a truck's right side especially dangerous. Stay back instead of moving into the space beside it.
Source: Georgia Driver's Manual — Sharing the Road with Commercial Motor Vehicles
6. For a Georgia driver under 21, a second suspension for driving under the influence lasts at least how long?
Correct answer: 18 months
A young driver's second DUI suspension runs eighteen months at minimum, with eligibility for an ignition interlock permit opening up once 120 days have passed.
7. If you are involved in a traffic crash, Georgia law requires you to:
Correct answer: Stop, exchange information, help the injured, and report it
You must stop at the scene, share your name, address, and vehicle information, help anyone injured, and report the crash when required. Leaving the scene is a serious offense.
8. Counting "one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two" after the car ahead passes a fixed point is a way to:
Correct answer: Judge a safe following distance behind the car ahead
When the vehicle ahead passes a landmark such as a utility pole or a street sign, start counting "one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two." If you reach that landmark before you finish the count, you are too close.
9. Under Georgia's Hands-Free Law, which action is still allowed while driving?
Correct answer: Using a mounted phone with voice or hands-free commands
The Hands-Free Law bans holding or supporting a phone with any part of your body. You may still use a mounted phone with voice or hands-free features.
10. A friend tells you to pull up beside a car already parked at the curb and wait there with the engine idling. Is that allowed in Georgia?
Correct answer: No, because stopping on the street side of a parked car is never permitted
Georgia bars stopping, standing, or parking alongside a vehicle that is already at the curb. Double parking steals a travel lane and hides the parked car from drivers coming up behind.
Source: Georgia Driver's Manual — Stopping, Standing, and Parking
11. You are in the right lane of a four-lane street and two solid white lines separate your lane from the one beside it. What do those lines tell you?
Correct answer: Moving across them into the next lane is not permitted
Georgia marks certain lanes with paired white stripes to control crossing. When that pair is solid, moving across is forbidden; the same pair drawn as dashes would let you shift over when it is safe.
12. A downward-pointing triangle that is red and white tells you to:
Correct answer: Slow down and give the right-of-way, stopping if needed
A red-and-white downward triangle is a YIELD sign. Slow down, give the right-of-way to traffic and pedestrians, and stop if necessary before going on.
13. When you pull onto a street from a private driveway, alley, or parking lot, you must:
Correct answer: Yield to all traffic and pedestrians already on the road
A driver entering the roadway from a driveway, alley, or private road must yield to all approaching vehicles and to pedestrians on the sidewalk.
14. Your Georgia driver's license lapsed more than two years ago. What does renewing it now involve?
Correct answer: A vision screening, the exam on signs and rules, and a driving test
Once a license has been expired beyond two years, Georgia puts you back through the testing a new applicant faces: the eye screening, the written exam on signs and rules, and a driving test.
15. When the yellow lights are flashing at a marked school zone, you must:
Correct answer: Slow to the reduced school-zone limit and watch for children
Slow to the reduced school-zone speed limit while the lights flash or during the posted times, and watch closely for children.
16. Compared with a passenger car at the same 55 mph, roughly how much room does a fully loaded tractor-trailer need in order to stop?
Correct answer: Roughly three times as much
Sheer weight is the reason. A loaded rig at highway speed needs about triple the stopping room a car does, which is why squeezing in front of one and then slowing is so risky.
Source: Georgia Driver's Manual — Sharing the Road with Commercial Motor Vehicles
17. After you take the chemical test the state asks for following a Georgia DUI arrest, what else are you entitled to do?
Correct answer: Arrange further testing yourself, at your own cost, by qualified people you choose
A driver who has already complied with the required testing may obtain independent samples of blood, breath, or urine. The driver pays for them, and picks the qualified people who carry them out.
18. If your car stalls on railroad tracks and a train is coming, what should you do?
Correct answer: Get out at once and move away from the tracks
If your vehicle stalls on the tracks, the manual says to get out right away and move away from it. Then find the Emergency Notification System (ENS) sign and call for help, reporting that a vehicle is on the tracks.
19. Georgia law requires you to turn on your headlights:
Correct answer: From a half-hour after sunset to a half-hour before sunrise, and in low visibility
Headlights must be on from a half-hour after sunset until a half-hour before sunrise, and any time you cannot see clearly. Georgia also requires them whenever your wipers are on for rain or fog.
20. At a red light where no sign forbids it, when may you turn right?
Correct answer: After a complete stop, yielding to pedestrians and cross traffic
You may turn right on red after coming to a complete stop and yielding to pedestrians and cross traffic, unless a sign prohibits the turn.