Free Pennsylvania DMV practice test for your learner's permit — road signs, right-of-way and the rules of the road, with real Pennsylvania knowledge-exam questions.
The Pennsylvania knowledge test is a single 18-question exam covering road signs and the rules of the road together. You need 15 correct (83%) to pass.
Questions and exam format researched against Pennsylvania's official driver handbook and state sources. Last verified 18 August 2026.
Answer: Octagon
STOP signs use the eight-sided octagon shape nationwide, so they're recognizable even from behind.
Road Signs
Answer: 25 mph
Absent a posted sign, PA's default limit on a local, non-numbered residential or business-district road is 25 mph.
Speed & Spacing
Answer: Any time visibility is impaired by rain, snow, fog, or mist, or any time your wipers are in continuous or intermittent use
PA law (§4302) requires headlights whenever visibility is impaired by weather, and any time wipers are running, continuous or intermittent.
PA Laws
Answer: 16
PA's minimum learner's permit age is 16.
Teen & Permit Rules
Answer: At least 4 feet
Pennsylvania requires at least 4 feet of clearance when passing a bicyclist — more than the 3-foot rule common in many other states.
Sharing the Road
Answer: A keystone
Pennsylvania uses its namesake keystone shape to mark state highway routes.
Road Signs
Answer: 55 mph
Section 3362 sets the default at 55 mph for unposted roads outside business/residential districts.
Speed & Spacing
Answer: A primary offense, roughly $25
This is a primary offense — you can be stopped for it alone — with a base ticket around $25.
PA Laws
Questions and exam format researched against Pennsylvania's official driver handbook and state sources. Last verified 18 August 2026.
PA.gov driver's license Testing page (exam format: 18 questions, 15 correct to pass, unified pool with signs mixed in — no separate sign-recognition section); the official PA Driver's Manual (headlight/high-beam rules, no-passing line conventions, school bus stop law and divided-highway exception, stopping-distance and night-speed guidance, hill parking, no-parking distances, bicyclist/sidewalk/helmet rules, funeral processions, roundabouts, child restraint age/seat progression, and the manual's own DUI review answer key); 75 Pa.C.S. §1535's statutory point schedule (points table in this module is a representative subset of the full schedule, not exhaustive); §3736 (reckless driving) and §3714(a) (careless driving); §3802(e) (under-21 zero tolerance); §3345(a) and §1535 (school bus stop penalty); §4581 (seat belt/child-restraint penalties); PennDOT's 'Steer Clear' Move Over law page; and PennDOT's Paul Miller's Law announcements (signed 2024, effective June 5, 2025, warnings-only for one year, $50 fine + court costs starting June 5, 2026) — researched and verified 2026-08-18. Mock config uses the exact fraction rulePassPct: 15/18 (not a rounded 0.8) so Math.ceil(18 * rulePassPct) evaluates to exactly 15, matching the real exam's 15-of-18 passing threshold. Known gaps deliberately worked around rather than invented: the officially-cited 'reckless driving' 5-point/6-month-suspension figure some secondary sites use does NOT appear under that label in the official §1535 points schedule — this module uses the confirmed §3736 penalty ($200 fine + 6-month suspension) under the speed category instead, and keeps Careless Driving's separately-confirmed 3-point value under points, without conflating the two. PA does not appear to use a red/yellow/white curb-color convention (unconfirmed in any official source), so no curb-color questions are included. The PA manual gives only one general hill-parking rule (wheels turned completely right) with no confirmed uphill/downhill split like some other states use. Junior-license curfew (11pm-5am) and passenger-restriction figures are corroborated by secondary sources; the official PennDOT FS-WY PDF failed to parse as text during research and should get one more direct check before treating those figures as fully primary-sourced. The 500-foot emergency-vehicle following distance (§3327) is secondary-sourced and should also get a direct statute check. 'Back seat mandatory under 13' reads as a safety recommendation, not confirmed statutory law, and is intentionally omitted as a hard-rule question. Truck/bus no-zone blind-spot footage figures are not published in a PA-specific source and are also omitted rather than borrowed from another state. Re-verify periodically, as PennDOT manuals, fees, and point thresholds change over time.
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