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West Virginia 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
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1. At what point total does the DMV send a driver a letter of caution?
Correct answer: Six points
Once six or more points have accumulated, the DMV writes urging the driver to take more care and obey the traffic laws.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter II, Point System
2. What must a driver complete before moving up to a Level 3 graduated license?
Correct answer: Twelve months of conviction-free driving at Level 2 and reaching age seventeen
A Level 3 license calls for twelve months of conviction-free driving at Level 2 and an age of at least seventeen, with every other requirement met.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter I, Level 3 License GDL
3. What passenger limit applies during the first six months of a Level 2 graduated license?
Correct answer: No non-family passenger under the age of twenty
For that first half-year the holder may carry no non-family passenger under the age of twenty; during the second six months only one such passenger is allowed.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter I, Level 2 GDL Intermediate Driver's License
4. How can a West Virginia driver have points removed from their record?
Correct answer: By completing an approved eight-hour defensive driving class
Finishing an approved eight-hour defensive driving class takes three points off, and a driver may only claim that reduction once in any twelve-month period.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter II, Point System
5. You move to a new address inside West Virginia. What must you do?
Correct answer: Notify the DMV in writing within twenty days
The DMV must be notified in writing within twenty days; telling the post office alone will not update the driving record.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter I, In-State Change of Address
6. Which crash must be reported to police within five days in West Virginia?
Correct answer: One causing injury or death, or property damage above one thousand dollars
A crash causing injury or death, or property damage above one thousand dollars, has to be reported by the quickest means within five days.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter II, Crashes
7. How does West Virginia use color to mark a young driver's license?
Correct answer: Cards for fifteen to seventeen year olds are vertical and coded red
Applicants aged fifteen to seventeen receive a vertical card coded red, those eighteen to twenty a vertical card coded blue, and drivers of twenty-one or more a horizontal card.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter I, Driver's License Color-Coding
8. What is the minimum license penalty for passing a stopped school bus in West Virginia?
Correct answer: A sixty-day suspension
A first offense carries a suspension of at least sixty days along with a fine of at least five hundred dollars, or confinement for up to six months.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter VI, School Bus Rules
9. You have just failed the road skills test. How soon may you try again?
Correct answer: Not within one week
State code bars a second attempt at either the knowledge or the road skills test inside a one-week period.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter IV, Retest Information
10. How long do points stay on a West Virginia driving record?
Correct answer: Two years
Points remain attached to the record for two years counted from the date of the conviction.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter II, Point System
11. How many questions must be answered correctly on the West Virginia knowledge examination?
Correct answer: Nineteen of twenty-five
The examination carries at least twenty-five questions, and nineteen of the twenty-five must be answered correctly to pass.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter IV, Knowledge Examination
12. How many points make a West Virginia license subject to suspension?
Correct answer: Twelve points
Reaching twelve points on the record puts the driver's license at risk of suspension.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter II, Point System
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