Free Florida Permit Practice Test 2 (2026)
Real questions from the official Florida driver handbook, each with a plain-English explanation. Free, unlimited retakes, no signup.
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What this test covers
This draw of 20 questions breaks down like this:
- Licensing & Permits — 7
- Vehicle Equipment — 3
- Alcohol, Drugs & the Law — 2
- Points & Penalties — 2
- Sharing the Road — 2
- Signaling & Communication — 2
- Right-of-Way & Intersections — 1
- Safe Driving — 1
Heaviest on Licensing & Permits (7 of 20) — that is the section to revise first if you miss several here.
20 are Florida-specific questions, drawn from the state handbook rather than general road rules.
Each test on this site draws a different set, so Test 1, 2 and 3 never repeat a question.
Questions on this test
1. Brake lights must be visible from at least:
- 1,000 feet
- 100 feet
- 300 feet
- 50 feet
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Answer: 300 feet
Brake lights must be visible from 300 feet in daylight.
2. You must use headlights:
- Only in tunnels
- Only on highways
- From sunset to sunrise and whenever weather requires wipers
- Only at night
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Answer: From sunset to sunrise and whenever weather requires wipers
Headlights are required sunset-to-sunrise and whenever conditions require your wipers.
3. If your license is suspended, you should:
- Drive carefully anyway
- Drive at night only
- Only drive to work
- Not drive until it is reinstated
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Answer: Not drive until it is reinstated
Driving on a suspended license is a serious offense — don't drive until it's reinstated.
4. At night, a bicycle in Florida must have:
- Only reflective clothing
- Nothing special
- Only a bell
- A white front light and a red rear light/reflector
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Answer: A white front light and a red rear light/reflector
Florida law requires a white front lamp and a red rear lamp/reflector on a bike ridden at night.
5. If you fail the Class E knowledge exam, you generally must:
- Give up
- Wait and retake it (per the retake rules)
- Take a road test instead
- Get a full license anyway
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Answer: Wait and retake it (per the retake rules)
You can retake the knowledge exam after the required waiting period.
6. During the first 3 months with a learner's license, you may drive:
- Anytime
- Until midnight
- Until 10 p.m.
- Only during daylight hours
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Answer: Only during daylight hours
Daylight only for the first 3 months; after that, until 10 p.m.
7. A driver under 18 who accumulates too many points may be restricted to:
- Highway driving only
- Night driving only
- No driving ever
- Business-purposes-only driving for a period
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Answer: Business-purposes-only driving for a period
Minors with excess points are limited to business-purposes-only driving.
8. When yielding to a transit bus re-entering traffic, you must yield but the bus driver must still:
- Signal and re-enter safely
- Force in
- Stop traffic
- Reverse
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Answer: Signal and re-enter safely
You yield, but the bus must still signal and merge safely — cooperation both ways.
9. Texting while driving in Florida is:
- Legal on highways
- Legal at stops
- Illegal — put the phone away or go hands-free
- Legal
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Answer: Illegal — put the phone away or go hands-free
Texting while driving is against Florida law; use hands-free or wait.
10. Under the 'three crashes in three years' law, a driver with 3 at-fault crashes may have to:
- Do nothing
- Get a new car
- Pay a small fee
- Take an advanced driver improvement course and extended driving test
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Answer: Take an advanced driver improvement course and extended driving test
Three at-fault crashes in three years requires an Advanced Driver Improvement course and further testing.
11. If your name changes (e.g., marriage), you should:
- Wait until renewal only
- Get a new SSN
- Update your license with the required documents
- Do nothing
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Answer: Update your license with the required documents
Update your license and provide documents when your legal name changes.
12. For a driver operating a commercial vehicle, the legal BAC limit is:
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Answer: .04
Commercial drivers are DUI at .04 — half the limit for regular drivers.
13. Florida law requires vehicle owners to carry a minimum of:
- No insurance
- $1,000 total
- Only liability if requested
- $10,000 PIP and $10,000 Property Damage Liability
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Answer: $10,000 PIP and $10,000 Property Damage Liability
Florida requires at least $10,000 Personal Injury Protection (PIP) and $10,000 Property Damage Liability (PDL).
14. The minimum age to get a learner's license in Florida is:
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Answer: 15
You must be at least 15 years old for a learner's license.
15. Headlights are required whenever:
- It's sunny
- Only in tunnels
- Only on the interstate
- It's between sunset and sunrise, or weather requires wipers
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Answer: It's between sunset and sunrise, or weather requires wipers
Use headlights sunset-to-sunrise and whenever conditions require wipers.
16. Florida vehicles must have how many braking systems?
- None if driven slowly
- One
- Two, each able to stop the car
- Three
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Answer: Two, each able to stop the car
Two braking systems are required, each capable of stopping the car.
17. Before turning right across a bike lane, you must:
- Yield to any bicyclist in the bike lane, then turn
- Speed up
- Honk and turn
- Turn quickly in front of bicyclists
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Answer: Yield to any bicyclist in the bike lane, then turn
Yield to bicyclists in the bike lane before crossing it to turn right.
18. You can be arrested for DUI if impaired by:
- Only hard drugs
- Only marijuana
- Alcohol, illegal drugs, or impairing prescription/OTC medicine
- Only alcohol
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Answer: Alcohol, illegal drugs, or impairing prescription/OTC medicine
DUI applies to any substance that impairs you — including legal medicines.
19. At night, a white light must make your rear license plate readable from:
- 500 feet
- 300 feet
- 50 feet
- 150 feet
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Answer: 50 feet
A license plate light must make the plate visible from 50 feet at night.
20. When renewing your license, you will generally need to:
- Pass a vision test
- Take TLSAE again
- Retake the road test
- Do nothing
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Answer: Pass a vision test
A vision test is part of renewal; other tests may apply in some cases.
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