Knowledge exam — Virginia Permit Test
Knowledge exam on the Virginia permit test — 7 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
The knowledge exam has two parts, and you must answer all ten traffic sign questions in part one correctly before you may take part two.
Signs are how the road speaks to you, so the exam refuses to move on until you can read them.
You must correctly answer all ten traffic sign questions in part one of the exam before you can take part two of the exam.
Part two of the knowledge exam tests general knowledge, and you must answer at least 80 percent of those questions correctly to pass.
Part two is scored on its own, so a strong part one does not carry it.
You must answer at least 80 percent of these questions correctly to pass part two.
Exam questions are taken from the information in the Virginia Driver's Manual.
Everything the test can ask is somewhere in the book you were given.
Exam questions are taken from information in this manual.
If you fail the exam and are under 18, by law you must wait a full 15 days before retaking it.
The wait is there so the next attempt involves some studying.
If you fail the exam and you are under age 18, by law you must wait a full 15 days before you can retake the exam.
The exam may be taken only once per business day.
One attempt a day keeps the test from being guessed at repeatedly.
The exam may be taken only once per business day.
If you fail the knowledge exam three times you cannot take it a fourth time until you complete an approved course.
Three failures suggest the studying, not the test, is the problem.
If you fail the knowledge exam three times, you will not be able to take it a fourth time until you complete and pass the classroom component of driver education.
While testing you may not get or give help, seek questions or answers beforehand, or use a cell phone.
A license earned by cheating puts somebody on the road who cannot read a sign.
When testing, you cannot: get help while taking the exam help another person taking the exam try to get test questions or answers before the exam give another person exam questions or answers use a cell phone during the exam
On the test
How many of the ten sign questions in part one must you answer correctly?
Every one of the ten. Signs are how the road speaks to you, so the exam refuses to move on until you can read them. Virginia Driver's Manual, p.3: “You must correctly answer all ten traffic sign questions in part one of the exam before you can take part two of the exam.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
What it costs
- One payment, once — not a subscription. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel, for an exam you sit one time.
- Free to start: a 10-question test and the first section of cards. No sign-up and no account.
- Paying opens the rest of the cards, unlimited full-length practice tests, and retests built from exactly the questions you got wrong.
- Every level up to Prepared — 3 tests passed in a row.
- Do the work, fail the real exam, and we refund you.
Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Virginia Driver's Manual, published by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-06.