Free Virginia DMV practice tests

Fifteen years and six months for a learner's permit, sixteen years and three months for a driver's license. The Code of Virginia frames the first as the Department receiving an application from a Virginia resident over the age of 15 years and six months, and the license statute opens by saying minors at least 16 years and three months old may be issued driver's licenses. Under 18, the application needs written consent signed by a parent or legal guardian, or a court order showing the applicant is an emancipated minor in place of that signature. The driver privilege card uses the same two ages.

4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Those are the walk-in cutoffs the DMV prints on both the Knowledge Exam page and the Road Skills Tests page — miss them and you can be inside the building and still not test that day. Appointments are available for service Monday through Friday, and if you booked a road skills test the instruction is to arrive 15 minutes early. Walk-ins are handled first come, first served, so the wait depends on the location.

From stacking Virginia's two published parts into one practice paper. The DMV's Knowledge Exam page prints part one as 10 road sign questions requiring all ten correct and part two as 30 general knowledge questions requiring 24 correct; adding those gives the 40 questions and 34 correct this site shows for Virginia. That total is our model, not an agency figure, and no page fetched for this guide prints either number or the roughly 85 percent they imply. None of the Virginia materials fetched for this guide combines the parts: part one is scored to a perfect ten before part two is presented at all.

A completed Application for a Virginia Driver's License, the $3 learner's permit fee plus the yearly cost of a driver's license, one proof of identity, one proof of legal presence, two proofs of Virginia residency, and proof of your Social Security number if you have been issued one — DMV can verify the number electronically if you know it. Use your full legal name on everything; the DMV says abbreviations and nicknames will not be accepted, and that documents must be originals subject to verification rather than copies. Applicants under 18 also need a parent or legal guardian's signature on the application, or a court order showing emancipation.

Two days after the first or second failure. The Road Skills Tests page sets that wait for customers who fail once or twice, and the manual adds that the test may be taken only once per business day. The third failure changes the rules entirely: you cannot make a fourth attempt until you complete and pass the in-vehicle part of driver education at a school approved by DMV or the Department of Education, and the completion date has to be after the date of that third failure. Hand DMV the certificate of completion and the test reopens.

An unrestricted license takes 20/40 or better in one or both eyes plus 110 degrees or better horizontal vision in one or both eyes, or a comparable measurement within that range. The step below — 20/70 or better with 70 degrees or better horizontal vision — is a daylight-only restriction, which the manual defines as the period beginning a half-hour after sunrise and ending a half-hour before sunset. Inside that daylight-only tier, vision in only one eye turns the horizontal test into at least 30 degrees or better toward the nose and 40 degrees or better toward the temple. Needing glasses or contact lenses to pass adds a C restriction and an obligation to wear them behind the wheel.

The statute says yes and then hands the Commissioner a switch. Section 46.2-330 states that all drivers applying in person for renewal shall take and successfully complete the examination each renewal year — the vision and written tests, never the driving portion. The next subsection lets the Commissioner waive both the vision examination and the written test for an applicant under 75 renewing a non-commercial license. There is no waiver of the vision examination for a commercial license renewal or of the hazardous materials knowledge test, and at 75 or older you must appear in person and either pass the vision examination or hand in an eye doctor's report made within the previous 90 days.

The fee chart puts driver's license reinstatement between $145 and $220, varying by the type of suspension, and says a customer with multiple suspension or revocation orders in effect pays the highest reinstatement fee plus $5 for each additional order. Separately, the same chart lists a $600 insurance noncompliance fee. Both are printed rows on DMV 201, which the agency can revise, so pull the current chart before you assume a number. There is also a $10 hardship license extension on that chart if what you need is time rather than reinstatement.

Yes, on both ends of the age range. An adult who completes a state-approved driver education program takes that program's end-of-course skills exam, and the DMV states this waives the mandatory 60-day holding period and a DMV-administered skills exam. For an applicant under 18, the road skills test is given as part of the driver education course at a public, private or commercial driving school. That leaves one group in the examiner's passenger seat: the adult who chose instead to hold a learner's permit for at least 60 days and complete a behind-the-wheel checklist.

No. The DMV calls REAL ID an optional, upgraded version of your license or ID card, marked with a star in the upper right corner, and charges a $10 one-time fee on top of the cost of the license or ID you are applying for. The agency's own comparison table shows a standard license still works to drive, to vote or register to vote, to verify your identity at banks, utility companies and retail stores, to apply for or receive federal benefits, and to access health or life preserving services. What it does not do is board a domestic flight, enter federal facilities requiring ID, or access military bases — and the DMV notes those facilities set their own requirements, so verify before you go.