DMV ChampGeorgia · Georgia Department of Driver Services
The Georgia knowledge exam has 40 multiple-choice questions, and you need 30 correct answers to pass. DMV Champ teaches every question with its explanation, then checks you with 5 simulated exams in exactly that format.
40
questions
30
correct to pass
75%
passing score
None
time limit
The number of questions and the passing score are confirmed by dds.georgia.gov. Check the current Georgia handbook before your exam.
Georgia’s exam is one of the longer ones: only 7 jurisdictions ask more than 40 questions. You need 75% to pass, which means you can miss 10 questions and still get your permit. There is no time limit, so read every question twice.
The exam is given by the DDS (Georgia Department of Driver Services). Its questions come from the official Georgia driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The same format is used in Ohio.
The Georgia Drivers’ Manual calls it the knowledge exam, so that is the phrase you’ll see at the counter and on the agency’s site. Passing it is how you get a class c instructional permit, which you can apply for from age 15 in Georgia. Road signs are tested as a section of their own, so don’t skim the signs chapter. If you fail, the rule on retaking is: the next day after a first failure; 7 days after a second or later failure.
35 topics in Georgia: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving, because the Georgia handbook teaches it.
Exam simulator
Pick Georgia once in the app and every simulated exam uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-exam, and each attempt is graded against the 30-correct passing score at the end. Retake an exam as often as you like, reordered each time.
What you study
Signs and signals, road rules, safe driving and driving laws. The topics come from the AAMVA guidelines every state builds its exam on, checked against the Georgia handbook. Each is a short group of questions you can get through in a few minutes, and every answer is explained the moment you check it.
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.
A question you get wrong returns until you get it right. Once you’ve answered every new question and corrected every mistake, you’ve finished the learning phase.
The score you’d likely get on the Georgia exam today, with the 30-correct passing score marked on it and a 14-day trend.
Georgia questions
40. The Georgia knowledge exam has 40 multiple-choice questions, and you need 30 correct answers (75%) to pass.
10. With 40 questions and 30 needed to pass, you can get 10 wrong and still pass.
No. Georgia does not put a time limit on the knowledge exam. Only 8 jurisdictions do.
15. In Georgia the first permit is called a class c instructional permit, and the handbook sets 15 as the youngest age for it. The knowledge exam is part of getting one.
From the official Georgia driver’s handbook, which is what the DDS writes its test from. Every DMV Champ question is checked against it and explained the moment you answer.
A few questions a day is enough. Not in Georgia?