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  • Updated for May 2025
  • Based on official North Carolina Driver's manual

Free North Carolina DMV Permit Practice Test Three 2025

The process for earning your North Carolina learner’s permit requires you to demonstrate your knowledge of road rules and safe driving practices. If you’re ready to get started, you’ll need to enlist the help of a reliable resource to advance your understanding of these subjects. While it’s not the rocket science taught in Raleigh, learning traffic laws, rights-of-way, parking regulations, and general safe driving practices requires concentrated study. There are several requirements you must meet before getting your learner’s permit. One of the main items on that list is passing an official driver’s knowledge test. This test will require you to exhibit your readiness to safely and responsibly operate a vehicle.

While it’s not difficult to find an on-line study guide, our North Carolina DMV Permit Practice Test is the premier resource for getting ready for your official knowledge test. This practice test will help you advance your current driving skills to the next level. It uses questions just like the ones you’ll see on the official knowledge test so that you’ll know what to expect. You must answer 80% of the 25 questions correctly to earn a passing grade. The 20 multiple-choice questions on the practice test will challenge you to think through the information necessary to arrive at the correct answer. This approach is useful in helping identify and correct your knowledge gaps.

The Permit Practice Test is the most effective and time-efficient resource for learning everything you need to know to pass the official knowledge test and develop extraordinary driving skills. It is based on the most recent North Carolina DMV driver’s manual (North Carolina DMV Handbook (NC Driver's Manual) 2025) and up to date as of May 2025. Study guides fail to measure up to the standards of the practice test. The practice test offers more thorough instruction. If you get a question wrong, you will receive a detailed explanation of the correct answer. In comparison, a study guide helps you memorize the answers to the questions without providing supporting information.

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What to expect on the actual NC DMV exam

25

questions

20

correct answers to pass

80%

passing score

15 y/o

minimum age to apply

List of questions (classic view)

  1. Except where prohibited, you should use the three-point turn to
  2. In heavy rain, your vehicle's tires can ride on a film of water and lose contact with the road. This hazard is known as
  3. You are at a stop sign, waiting to turn right. A vehicle approaching from the left has its turn signal on. What should you do?
  4. Shared center lanes are reserved for _________ and can be used by vehicles traveling in either direction.
  5. If a bicycle on your right reaches an uncontrolled intersection (i.e., one without signs or signals) at about the same time as you do, you should
  6. Disabled persons who display their placards can park at a _______ curb.
  7. What does this sign mean?
  8. This sign indicates that you are approaching
  9. A solid white line next to your lane means
  10. What does this sign mean?
  11. Where there are two or more lanes of traffic moving in the same direction, slower vehicles should use
  12. When making a left turn at an intersection or into an alley or driveway, you must yield the right-of-way to
  13. When the yellow lights are flashing, all drivers approaching _________ must obey the posted speed limit.
  14. When making a U-turn, you should NOT
  15. To make a right turn from a four-lane divided highway, enter the right lane well in advance of the turn and make
  16. On a multilane roundabout, if you intend to exit the roundabout less than halfway around it, use
  17. At night, drivers should use high-beam headlights
  18. Before entering an intersection, you must watch for
  19. You approach a pedestrian with a white cane who is about to cross the road. What should you do?
  20. On steep mountain grades, __________ are built to stop runaway vehicles safely without injuring drivers or passengers.
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