DMV ChampTexas · Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas knowledge exam has 30 multiple-choice questions, and you need 21 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
21
correct to pass
70%
passing score
None
time limit
Part of this format is confirmed by 37 Tex. Admin. Code §15.52; the rest is the best figure available, and it is the one DMV Champ’s exam simulator uses. Check the current Texas handbook before your exam.
Texas’s exam is a middle-length one: 21 jurisdictions ask fewer questions and 21 ask more. You need 70% to pass, which means you can miss 9 questions and still get your permit. There is no time limit, so read every question twice.
The exam is given by the DPS (Texas Department of Public Safety). Its questions come from the official Texas driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The Texas Driver Handbook 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 learner license, which you can apply for from age 15 in Texas. If you fail, the rule on retaking is: application held for 90 days; after 90 days or three failed exams a new application and fee are required.
36 topics in Texas: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving and flooding, because the Texas handbook teaches them.
Exam simulator
Pick Texas once in the app and every simulated exam uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-exam, and each attempt is graded against the 21-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 Texas 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 Texas exam today, with the 21-correct passing score marked on it and a 14-day trend.
Texas questions
30. The Texas knowledge exam has 30 multiple-choice questions, and you need 21 correct answers (70%) to pass.
9. With 30 questions and 21 needed to pass, you can get 9 wrong and still pass.
No. Texas does not put a time limit on the knowledge exam. Only 8 jurisdictions do.
15. In Texas the first permit is called a learner license, and the handbook sets 15 as the youngest age for it. The knowledge exam is part of getting one.
From the official Texas driver’s handbook, which is what the DPS 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 Texas?