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Colorado DMV practice test

The Colorado written test has 25 multiple-choice questions, and you need 20 correct answers to pass. DMV Champ teaches every question with its explanation, then checks you with 5 simulated tests in exactly that format.

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25

questions

20

correct to pass

80%

passing score

None

time limit

The number of questions and the passing score are confirmed by 1 CCR 204-3 section 502. Check the current Colorado handbook before your test.

What the Colorado test looks like

Colorado’s test is one of the shorter ones: only 5 jurisdictions ask fewer than 25 questions. You need 80% to pass, which means you can miss 5 questions and still get your permit. There is no time limit, so read every question twice.

The test is given by the DMV. Its questions come from the official Colorado driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.

The same format is used in Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

See how many questions you can miss in every state.

What the Colorado handbook says

The Colorado Driver Handbook calls it the written test, so that is the phrase you’ll see at the counter and on the agency’s site. Passing it is how you get an instruction permit.

36 topics in Colorado: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving and flooding, because the Colorado handbook teaches them.

Test simulator

5 simulated tests in the Colorado format

25 questions20 to passNo time limit

Pick Colorado once in the app and every simulated test uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-test, and each attempt is graded against the 20-correct passing score at the end. Retake a test as often as you like, reordered each time.

What you study

4 sections, 36 topics, every one on the Colorado test.

Signs and signals, road rules, safe driving and driving laws. The topics come from the AAMVA guidelines every state builds its test on, checked against the Colorado handbook. On Learn they’re cut into short practices of about ten questions, in seven steps from road signs to the laws, and every answer is explained the moment you check it.

Learn by answering

No chapters to read first. Every practice question carries its answer and the reasoning, so a wrong answer is how the next thing is taught.

Mistakes come back

A question you get wrong goes to your mistakes in Review and comes back until you get it right there. Once you’ve answered every question and corrected every mistake, you’ve finished the learning phase.

Your chance of passing

Take a simulated test in the Colorado format and see how likely you are to reach the 20-correct passing score. Your latest test counts the most.

Colorado questions

Good to know before your Colorado test.

How many questions are on the Colorado permit test?

25. The Colorado written test has 25 multiple-choice questions, and you need 20 correct answers (80%) to pass.

How many questions can you miss on the Colorado written test?

5. With 25 questions and 20 needed to pass, you can get 5 wrong and still pass.

Is the Colorado written test timed?

No. Colorado does not put a time limit on the written test. Only 8 jurisdictions do.

Where do the Colorado questions come from?

From the official Colorado driver’s handbook, which is what the DMV writes its test from. Every DMV Champ question is checked against it and explained the moment you answer.

Ready for the Colorado test?

A few questions a day is enough. Not in Colorado?

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