Idaho Car / Permit practice
Idaho Car / Permit: Penalties & Licensing practice test
The point system, license suspension, provisional-license rules, insurance requirements, and other licensing basics.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
14 questions · pass with 11 correct. You get instant feedback and an explanation after every answer.
Choose your level
Up to 20 questions on this topic, with feedback after every answer.
Study questions with answers
12 sample Penalties & Licensing questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the official handbook reference. Read through them, then take the quiz above.
Show all 12 questions with answers
1. An Idaho driver accumulates 12 to 17 points within a 12-month period. What happens?
Correct answer: A thirty-day suspension
That band brings a thirty-day suspension, one step past the warning letter issued at eight to eleven points in the same period.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Suspension & Point Violations System
2. What vision standard must an Idaho applicant meet at the driver's license office?
Correct answer: At least 20/40 in one eye, with or without corrective lenses
You need 20/40 sight in at least one eye, and glasses or contacts may be used to reach it, though wearing them then becomes a restriction on the license.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Medical/Visual Screening
3. What passenger limit applies during the first six months after an Idaho driver under 17 is licensed?
Correct answer: No more than one passenger under 17, unless the passengers are relatives
Only one passenger under seventeen may ride along during that period, and relatives by blood, adoption, or marriage do not count against the limit.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Restriction When Under 17
4. How soon may an Idaho applicant retake the knowledge test after failing it?
Correct answer: After three days
A failed knowledge test carries a three-day waiting period, and the test fee has to be paid again for the retry.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Knowledge Test: Class D (Non-Commercial)
5. How many points can an approved defensive driving course remove from an Idaho driving record?
Correct answer: Up to three points
A department-approved defensive driving course takes off as many as three points, and the option is available only once every three years; the course removes points but leaves the convictions in place.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Suspension & Point Violations System
6. During Idaho's supervised instruction period, who must be sitting beside the young driver?
Correct answer: A licensed driver at least 21 years old, in the front seat
The supervising adult has to be a validly licensed driver of at least twenty-one who occupies the front passenger seat, and nobody else may ride up front.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Graduated Driver's License (GDL) Program
7. How long does an Idaho driver have to request a hearing on an administrative license suspension?
Correct answer: Seven days
The request must reach the department within seven days of the date printed on the notice of suspension.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Administrative License Suspension
8. What restriction applies to an Idaho driver who is under 16?
Correct answer: Daylight driving only, unless a licensed driver 21 or older sits in the front seat
Driving is limited to daylight, defined as the stretch from five in the morning to ten at night, unless a licensed driver aged twenty-one or older is riding in the front passenger seat.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Restriction When Under 16
9. What does Idaho require of a licensed driver who moves to a new address?
Correct answer: Notify the department within 30 days
The department has to be told within thirty days, and getting the new address printed on the card itself takes a duplicate unless you happen to be eligible to renew.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Address Change
10. How is Idaho's Class D knowledge test scored?
Correct answer: Forty questions, with up to six wrong answers allowed
The exam runs forty questions and a candidate may miss as many as six of them and still pass.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Knowledge Test: Class D (Non-Commercial)
11. What is the minimum age to take the Idaho knowledge and skills tests?
Correct answer: 15 years old
Applicants must have reached their fifteenth birthday before either test may be attempted.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Required Testing
12. How many hours of supervised driving does Idaho's graduated licensing program require?
Correct answer: 50 hours, with 10 of them at night
The supervised instruction period calls for a minimum of fifty hours behind the wheel, and ten of those hours have to be logged after dark.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Graduated Driver's License (GDL) Program
More Car / Permit topics
Practice Penalties & Licensing in another state
Every Idaho question is written from the official Idaho driver handbook and checked against its current edition. DMV Test Free is a free, independent study resource — not affiliated with any DMV or government agency. About DMV Test Free