How the California mock exam is set.

What this mock exam runs

These are the numbers this mock exam is built and graded on.

Where the agency publishes how many choices its own test shows, this mock matches it. Where it does not, this mock shows every choice we wrote. The DMV publishes that its own test shows one correct answer and two wrong choices per question (dmv.ca.gov, checked July 2026), and this mock matches it.

Where these numbers come from

As consistently reported by recent test-takers; the DMV does not publish official counts.

• The 80 percent passing requirement is official DMV policy (dmv.ca.gov, checked July 2026).
• The DMV no longer publishes exact question counts or pass lines. The 46-question (pass at 38) and 36-question (pass at 30) formats used here are what recent California test-takers consistently report.
• Those reported lines are stricter than a rounded 80 percent. We apply the stricter line on purpose: if you pass here, you were not graded easier than the real test.

The page the agency publishes this on

What we could not establish

These are not on this page, because nothing we hold establishes them.

• Whether California offers an online knowledge test in a different format. We have not established it, so this page does not state it.