Maryland · Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration
The Maryland knowledge test has 25 multiple-choice questions, and you need 22 correct answers to pass. DMV Champ teaches every question with its explanation, then checks you with 5 simulated tests in exactly that format.
25
questions
22
correct to pass
88%
passing score
20 min
time limit
The number of questions and the passing score are confirmed by mva.maryland.gov. Check the current Maryland handbook before your test.
Maryland’s test is one of the shorter ones: only 5 jurisdictions ask fewer than 25 questions. You need 88% to pass, which means you can miss 3 questions and still get your permit. You have 20 minutes, one of only 8 jurisdictions that put a clock on the test.
The test is given by the MVA (Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration). Its questions come from the official Maryland driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The Maryland Driver’s Manual calls it the knowledge test. Passing it is how you get a learner’s instructional permit, which you can apply for from age 15 and 9 months in Maryland.
35 topics in Maryland: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving, because the Maryland handbook teaches it.
Test simulator
Pick Maryland once in the app and every simulated test uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-test, and each attempt is graded against the 22-correct passing score at the end. Retake a test 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 test on, checked against the Maryland 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.
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 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.
Take a simulated test in the Maryland format and see how likely you are to reach the 22-correct passing score. Your latest test counts the most.
Maryland questions
25. The Maryland knowledge test has 25 multiple-choice questions, and you need 22 correct answers (88%) to pass.
3. With 25 questions and 22 needed to pass, you can get 3 wrong and still pass.
Yes. You have 20 minutes. Maryland is one of only 8 jurisdictions that put a time limit on the knowledge test, and DMV Champ’s test simulator uses the same clock.
15 and 9 months. In Maryland the first permit is called a learner’s instructional permit, and the handbook sets 15 and 9 months as the youngest age for it. The knowledge test is part of getting one.
From the official Maryland driver’s handbook, which is what the MVA 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 Maryland?
