DMV ChampOregon · Department of Motor Vehicles
The Oregon knowledge test has 35 multiple-choice questions, and you need 28 correct answers to pass. DMV Champ teaches every question with its explanation, then checks you with 5 simulated exams in exactly that format.
35
questions
28
correct to pass
80%
passing score
None
time limit
The number of questions and the passing score are confirmed by oregon.gov/odot. Check the current Oregon handbook before your exam.
Oregon’s exam is a middle-length one: 31 jurisdictions ask fewer questions and 17 ask more. You need 80% to pass, which means you can miss 7 questions and still get your permit. There is no time limit, so read every question twice.
The exam is given by the DMV. Its questions come from the official Oregon driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The Oregon Driver Manual calls it the knowledge test. Passing it is how you get an instruction permit, which you can apply for from age 15 in Oregon. If you fail, the rule on retaking is: may retest the same day at a DMV office (subject to availability); online, two tests per 24 hours and four online attempts in total.
36 topics in Oregon: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving and flooding, because the Oregon handbook teaches them.
Exam simulator
Pick Oregon once in the app and every simulated exam uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-exam, and each attempt is graded against the 28-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 Oregon 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 Oregon exam today, with the 28-correct passing score marked on it and a 14-day trend.
Oregon questions
35. The Oregon knowledge test has 35 multiple-choice questions, and you need 28 correct answers (80%) to pass.
7. With 35 questions and 28 needed to pass, you can get 7 wrong and still pass.
No. Oregon does not put a time limit on the knowledge test. Only 8 jurisdictions do.
15. In Oregon the first permit is called an instruction permit, and the handbook sets 15 as the youngest age for it. The knowledge test is part of getting one.
From the official Oregon 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 Oregon?