DMV ChampRhode Island · Department of Motor Vehicles
The Rhode Island knowledge exam has 40 multiple-choice questions, and you need 32 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
32
correct to pass
80%
passing score
90 min
time limit
Part of this format is confirmed by RI Driver’s Manual; the rest is the best figure available, and it is the one DMV Champ’s exam simulator uses. Check the current Rhode Island handbook before your exam.
Rhode Island’s exam is one of the longer ones: only 7 jurisdictions ask more than 40 questions. You need 80% to pass, which means you can miss 8 questions and still get your permit. You have 90 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 Rhode Island driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The Rhode Island Driver’s 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 limited learner permit, which you can apply for from age 16 in Rhode Island. If you fail, the rule on retaking is: no waiting period stated; those who fail through CCRI retake it at the DMV main office in Cranston.
35 topics in Rhode Island: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving, because the Rhode Island handbook teaches it.
Exam simulator
Pick Rhode Island once in the app and every simulated exam uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-exam, and each attempt is graded against the 32-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 Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island exam today, with the 32-correct passing score marked on it and a 14-day trend.
Rhode Island questions
40. The Rhode Island knowledge exam has 40 multiple-choice questions, and you need 32 correct answers (80%) to pass.
8. With 40 questions and 32 needed to pass, you can get 8 wrong and still pass.
Yes. You have 90 minutes. Rhode Island is one of only 8 jurisdictions that put a time limit on the knowledge exam, and DMV Champ’s exam simulator uses the same clock.
16. In Rhode Island the first permit is called a limited learner permit, and the handbook sets 16 as the youngest age for it. The knowledge exam is part of getting one.
From the official Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island?