DMV ChampHawaii · Department of Motor Vehicles
The Hawaii knowledge test has 30 multiple-choice questions, and you need 24 correct answers to pass. DMV Champ teaches every question with its explanation, then checks you with 5 simulated exams in exactly that format.
30
questions
24
correct to pass
80%
passing score
60 min
time limit
The number of questions and the passing score are confirmed by the counties run licensing. Check the current Hawaii handbook before your exam.
Hawaii’s exam is a middle-length one: 21 jurisdictions ask fewer questions and 21 ask more. You need 80% to pass, which means you can miss 6 questions and still get your permit. You have 60 minutes, one of only 8 jurisdictions that put a clock on the exam.
The exam is given by the DMV. Its questions come from the official Hawaii driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The same format is used in Tennessee.
The State of Hawaii Driver’s Manual calls it the knowledge test. Passing it is how you get an instruction permit, which you can apply for from age 15 and a half in Hawaii.
36 topics in Hawaii: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving and flooding, because the Hawaii handbook teaches them.
Exam simulator
Pick Hawaii once in the app and every simulated exam uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-exam, and each attempt is graded against the 24-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 Hawaii 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 Hawaii exam today, with the 24-correct passing score marked on it and a 14-day trend.
Hawaii questions
30. The Hawaii knowledge test has 30 multiple-choice questions, and you need 24 correct answers (80%) to pass.
6. With 30 questions and 24 needed to pass, you can get 6 wrong and still pass.
Yes. You have 60 minutes. Hawaii is one of only 8 jurisdictions that put a time limit on the knowledge test, and DMV Champ’s exam simulator uses the same clock.
15 and a half. In Hawaii the first permit is called an instruction permit, and the handbook sets 15 and a half as the youngest age for it. The knowledge test is part of getting one.
From the official Hawaii 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.
A few questions a day is enough. Not in Hawaii?