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Nevada Car / Permit: Penalties & Licensing practice test
The point system, license suspension, provisional-license rules, insurance requirements, and other licensing basics.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. What is the minimum age to obtain a Nevada instruction permit?
Correct answer: 15½ years
A permit becomes available at fifteen and a half once you pass the vision and knowledge tests and a parent or guardian authorizes it. The permit is good for one year.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 1, Instruction Permits
2. Which violation carries the highest demerit point value on the handbook's list?
Correct answer: Reckless driving
Reckless driving tops the published list at eight points, with careless driving next at six and following too closely or failing to yield at four apiece.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 9, Demerit Point System
3. How soon must you tell the Nevada DMV about a change of address or name?
Correct answer: Within 30 days
State law gives thirty days. Address changes can often be made online or by mail, but a name change has to be handled in person with supporting documents.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 1, Change of Address or Name
4. How long must a driver under 18 hold an instruction permit before applying for a license?
Correct answer: 6 months
Applicants below eighteen must carry the permit for at least six months, and they must also stay free of at-fault crashes and moving violations during that period.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 1, Instruction Permits
5. You have moved to Nevada from another state. How long do you have to apply for a Nevada license?
Correct answer: 30 days after becoming a resident
New residents have thirty days. You must also surrender the out-of-state license, because Nevada allows a resident to hold only one license or ID card.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 1, New Nevada Residents
6. Who must accompany the holder of a Nevada Class C instruction permit?
Correct answer: A licensed driver at least 21 years old with a year of experience, seated next to the permit holder
The supervising driver must be twenty-one or older, have held a license for at least a year, and be sitting in the front passenger seat.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 1, Instruction Permits
7. How many demerit points can a DMV-approved traffic safety course remove?
Correct answer: A maximum of three points
The course takes off up to three points, is available to drivers holding between three and eleven, and may be used only once in a twelve-month period.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 9, Demerit Point System
8. How many demerit points does Nevada assign for driving 1 to 10 mph above the posted limit?
Correct answer: One point
The speeding scale climbs with the overage, starting at a single point for the first ten miles per hour and reaching five points once you are forty-one or more over.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 9, Demerit Point System
9. A 16-year-old has just been licensed in Nevada. What passenger rule applies?
Correct answer: No passengers under 18 other than immediate family for the first six months
For the first half year of licensed driving, riders under eighteen are barred unless they are immediate family members.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 1, Passenger Restrictions and Curfews
10. What nighttime curfew applies to Nevada drivers under 18?
Correct answer: No driving from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m., except when the trip is to or from a scheduled event
The restriction runs from ten at night until five in the morning and stays in force until the driver turns eighteen, no matter when the license was issued.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 1, Passenger Restrictions and Curfews
11. How many demerit points in a 12-month period cost a Nevada driver their license?
Correct answer: 12 or more
Reaching a dozen points inside any twelve-month span brings a suspension. Points are counted on a rolling basis rather than by calendar year.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 9, Demerit Point System
12. You complete traffic safety school and three points come off. What happens to the conviction itself?
Correct answer: It stays on your driving history
Only the points are removed. The underlying conviction remains part of the driving history the DMV and insurers can see.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 9, Demerit Point System
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