Who built this, and how the questions get written
PassRates US is written and built by Vikas, a developer and driving enthusiast who builds and publishes driving guides. It is not a driving school, it is not a state agency, and nobody here is a licensing examiner. What it is: a set of free permit practice tests where each explanation carries the statute, handbook section or CFR part it was drafted against. That makes every claim on the site checkable by anyone who cares to.
From statute to question
A question starts at a rule, never at another practice site. Someone opens the state statute or the current official driver handbook, drafts a question that turns on that rule, and notes the numbered section it was drafted against. That number travels with the question and shows up beside the explanation. The rule belongs to the state; the sentence does not. It is also why a citation here points at a section number rather than at a page of prose.
Car tests combine one layer of rules that are identical in every state, federal sign shapes and right of way among them, with a second layer written off that state’s own law: permit ages, alcohol limits, helmet rules, insurance minimums. Commercial licensing is federal under 49 CFR Part 383, which fixes the pass mark at 80 percent and has states test from one model manual, so a single CDL bank is correct in every state.
What happens when a state publishes nothing
This is the part worth reading. Some agencies never put the figures other sites quote most loudly into writing at all. California DMV publishes no question count for the car knowledge test on any current page, and no motorcycle count at all. Texas DPS publishes a 70 percent pass mark and no count. Lifting a number from a competitor would mean inheriting their errors while claiming to be the checked option, so a figure that exists in an official source is quoted with that source attached, and a figure that exists nowhere official is recorded here as a gap.
Time limits work the same way. A few states publish one, most do not. Where the allowance on a test here is ours, the page admits it instead of dressing our own number up as an official one.
What this site is not
- Not official in any way. No state licensing agency, no DMV, the FMCSA and no other federal body runs this site, checks it or endorses it.
- Not the official examination. Passing every test here does not guarantee passing the real one.
- Not legal advice. Where a rule matters to you, the section number on the answer is the shortest route to the actual text.
- Not a paywall. It is free to use, there is no signup and no email, and advertising pays for it.
Corrections
Rules change and pages get restructured. A citation that has drifted out of step with the agency page it points at is a bug, and the contact page is the fastest way to report one. Fixes land with a fresh check date on the figure.
States covered so far
Florida, Texas, California, with more being added. Every state gets the same treatment: its own statutes read, its own figures cited, and a plain statement wherever the agency publishes nothing.
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Written by Vikas, developer and driving enthusiast