DMV ChampWest Virginia · Department of Motor Vehicles
The West Virginia knowledge examination has 25 multiple-choice questions, and you need 19 correct answers to pass. DMV Champ teaches every question with its explanation, then checks you with 5 simulated exams in exactly that format.
25
questions
19
correct to pass
76%
passing score
None
time limit
The number of questions and the passing score are confirmed by WV Driver’s Licensing Handbook. Check the current West Virginia handbook before your exam.
West Virginia’s exam is one of the shorter ones: only 5 jurisdictions ask fewer than 25 questions. You need 76% to pass, which means you can miss 6 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 West Virginia driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The West Virginia Driver’s Licensing Handbook calls it the knowledge examination, so that is the phrase you’ll see at the counter and on the agency’s site. Passing it is how you get an instruction permit, which you can apply for from age 15 in West Virginia. If you fail, the rule on retaking is: not tested twice within one week; $7.50 per attempt.
36 topics in West Virginia: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving and flooding, because the West Virginia handbook teaches them.
Exam simulator
Pick West Virginia once in the app and every simulated exam uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-exam, and each attempt is graded against the 19-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 West Virginia 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 West Virginia exam today, with the 19-correct passing score marked on it and a 14-day trend.
West Virginia questions
25. The West Virginia knowledge examination has 25 multiple-choice questions, and you need 19 correct answers (76%) to pass.
6. With 25 questions and 19 needed to pass, you can get 6 wrong and still pass.
No. West Virginia does not put a time limit on the knowledge examination. Only 8 jurisdictions do.
15. In West Virginia the first permit is called an instruction permit, and the handbook sets 15 as the youngest age for it. The knowledge examination is part of getting one.
From the official West Virginia 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 West Virginia?