All your missed questions are saved
automatically for extra practice.
It's a practice test that's automatically made up of all your missed questions. Once you finish this test, you’ll be able to revisit your Challenge Bank™ to practice and sharpen your skills.
View All PlansAdding difficult questions to Challenge Bank™ is an exclusive Premium feature. Unlock access to 650+ exam-like questions, a Pass Guarantee, personalized study plans, and more.
View All PlansSouth Dakota DMV Permit Practice Test Questions 2025
South Dakota is known for its expansive landscape and seemingly endless horizons. The roads are often straight and uncrowded, making them ideal for beginners to practice driving and gain behind-the-wheel experience. Mount Rushmore is one of the most famous landmarks in the United States. In this region, the terrain changes. The drive through the Black Hills has winding roads and sharp curves, challenging even the most experienced drivers. The learning phase begins as soon as you’ve made the decision to become a licensed driver in the Mount Rushmore State. During this time, you will study the various aspects of driving theory described in the official South Dakota driver license manual (South Dakota DMV Handbook (SD Driver's Manual) 2025). To obtain a learner’s permit, you must be at least 14 years old, pass a vision test, provide identification documents, pay the required fee, and pass a 25-question knowledge test.
Our South Dakota DMV permit practice tests can help you ace the official exam on your first attempt. Build confidence and strengthen your knowledge through repetition. This intuitive tool is available 24/7 and can be accessed from any device that supports a browser and has an active internet connection. Do not get discouraged when you make a mistake. It is common to fail on your first few attempts as a beginner, so we recommend ignoring your score and focusing on enhancing your knowledge of driving. To help you identify and learn from mistakes, we provide a detailed explanation of the correct answer for every question you get wrong. Note this explanation down in a notebook or notebook app and revisit the material during future training sessions.
Unlike other practice tests that reveal your performance only at the end, ours updates in real time. The test overview lets you track your progress, with correct answers highlighted in green and wrong ones in red. At any point during an active training session, you can use the “Restart test” button to wipe your current progress and begin a new session with a randomized order of questions.
Verified for accuracy: October 2025
Reviewed by Steven Litvintchouk, M.S.
Chief Educational Researcher (ACES member)
Methodology & Editorial Policy
What to expect on the actual SD exam
questions
correct answers to pass
passing score
minimum age to apply
More SD DMV written exam resources
Are you in another state?
- Alabama: Test 1 / Test 2
- Alaska: Test 1 / Test 2
- Arizona: Test 1 / Test 2
- Arkansas: Test 1 / Test 2
- California: Test 1 / Test 2
- Colorado: Test 1 / Test 2
- Connecticut: Test 1 / Test 2
- Delaware: Test 1 / Test 2
- District of Columbia: Test 1 / Test 2
- Florida: Test 1 / Test 2
- Georgia: Test 1 / Test 2
- Hawaii: Test 1 / Test 2
- Idaho: Test 1 / Test 2
- Illinois: Test 1 / Test 2
- Indiana: Test 1 / Test 2
- Iowa: Test 1 / Test 2
- Kansas: Test 1 / Test 2
- Kentucky: Test 1 / Test 2
- Louisiana: Test 1 / Test 2
- Maine: Test 1 / Test 2
- Maryland: Test 1 / Test 2
- Massachusetts: Test 1 / Test 2
- Michigan: Test 1 / Test 2
- Minnesota: Test 1 / Test 2
- Mississippi: Test 1 / Test 2
- Missouri: Test 1 / Test 2
- Montana: Test 1 / Test 2
- Nebraska: Test 1 / Test 2
- Nevada: Test 1 / Test 2
- New Hampshire: Test 1 / Test 2
- New Jersey: Test 1 / Test 2
- New Mexico: Test 1 / Test 2
- New York: Test 1 / Test 2
- North Carolina: Test 1 / Test 2
- North Dakota: Test 1 / Test 2
- Ohio: Test 1 / Test 2
- Oklahoma: Test 1 / Test 2
- Oregon: Test 1 / Test 2
- Pennsylvania: Test 1 / Test 2
- Rhode Island: Test 1 / Test 2
- South Carolina: Test 1 / Test 2
- South Dakota: Test 1 / Test 2
- Tennessee: Test 1 / Test 2
- Texas: Test 1 / Test 2
- Utah: Test 1 / Test 2
- Vermont: Test 1 / Test 2
- Virginia: Test 1 / Test 2
- Washington: Test 1 / Test 2
- West Virginia: Test 1 / Test 2
- Wisconsin: Test 1 / Test 2
- Wyoming: Test 1 / Test 2
We know how Driver's Ed goes
Noses sneeze. Babies cry. Frustration groans. And when it's finally time to take your test, you're sweating. Thirty minutes later, you're crying. Because despite your best efforts. You failed. Next thing you know, you're chasing a Waymo in circles to get home (embarrassing!).
At Driving Tests, we know emotions can get in the way of doing what you need to do. So we deliver Driver's Ed that makes it easy to start, and even easier to finish. We get you DMV Smart ASAP. Testing you with real, up-to-date questions. Backing up tricky driving situations with easy-to-grasp visuals & engaging practice tests that reaffirm what you know, and test you again on what you don't. So by the time test day comes - you *own* the DMV. Your only worry? Convincing the proctor you didn't cheat ;)