Nevada Permit Test FAQ

The Nevada knowledge test has 25 questions, and you need 20 right (80%) to pass. Our full practice exam uses the same size and pass mark. Always confirm the current test with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

Yes. KnowToDrive Nevada runs it online at any hour with no appointment, in English or Spanish, on a computer with a front-facing camera (touch screens are not supported), with 60 minutes to finish. In person, the DMV gives it on touch-screen computers with no time limit. (Nevada DMV: Written Knowledge Test)

You can try again the next day, after paying the retest fee. A disqualified test can be retaken after 24 hours. A passed test counts for one year. (Nevada DMV: Written Knowledge Test)

Highway signs and pavement markings, Nevada traffic laws and safe driving practices, all from the Driver Handbook. If reading the test is hard for you, you can ask for it to be given orally, and it is offered in Spanish too. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 12)

15½. You fill in a license application, pass the vision and knowledge tests, and a parent or guardian must be there to authorize it. Under 18 you also bring the school attendance form (DMV-301). (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 15)

A licensed driver aged 21 or older, with at least a year of licensed driving, sitting in the seat beside you. The permit is good for one year and must be with you whenever you drive. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 15)

At 16 at the earliest, after holding the permit for six months, finishing driver education, logging 50 supervised hours (10 at night) and going six months with no at-fault crash, moving violation or alcohol or drug conviction. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 14–15)

If no approved school is within 30 miles and you can't take a course online, you log 100 hours of supervised driving instead, with 10 of them after dark. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 14)

No, it is optional from 18. Adults can pass the written test and go on to the road test, but without a permit the drive test has to be booked in person at an office. (Nevada DMV: New Adult Drivers (18+))

For the first six months, no passengers under 18 except immediate family. Until 18, no driving between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless the trip is to or from a scheduled event. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 15)

Only hands-free for calls. Holding a phone to talk, or using it to text, message or browse, is against the law; an emergency call is allowed when stopping would be unsafe. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 43)

Whenever the bus shows flashing red lights, and you stay stopped until the driver turns them off. On a divided highway only traffic going the same way as the bus must stop. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 64)

0.02 percent. At that level a driver under 21 loses the license for 185 days; for drivers of 21 and older the limit is 0.08 percent. (Nevada Driver Handbook, p. 79–80)