All Driving Licence Types

Class 7 is Alberta's learner licence. The knowledge test is the first step before you can practice driving with a qualified supervisor. The Class 7 knowledge test has 30 multiple-choice questions drawn from the Alberta Driver's Guide. You need at least 25 correct (about 83%) to pass. There is no time limit. The test is offered in many languages including Simplified and Traditional Chinese at registry agent offices across the province. After you pass the knowledge test and a vision screening, you receive a Class 7 learner's licence and enter Alberta's Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program.

Class 5 is the full, unrestricted licence for passenger vehicles in British Columbia. You do not sit a separate Class 5 written exam: the only knowledge test in the whole process is the one you take to get your Class 7L learner's licence, and that is the exam these questions are drawn from. The ICBC knowledge test has 50 multiple-choice questions and you need 40 correct — 80% — to pass. It costs $15 per attempt, is offered in 12 languages including Chinese, and since June 2026 you can write it online from home instead of visiting a driver licensing office. Online attempts must be finished within 45 minutes in a single session, and your result stays valid for one year. Questions come from the ICBC Learn to Drive Smart guide: road signs, right-of-way, speed and following distance, parking, impaired-driving penalties, and the rules of the Graduated Licensing Program itself. The GLP rules are worth studying properly — the L and N restrictions on supervisors, passengers and night driving appear regularly, and they are the part most people skip. After your L you hold it for 12 months, pass the Class 7 road test to reach N, then spend 24 months at N — 18 with an approved GLP course — before reaching a full Class 5.

G1 is the first level of Ontario's graduated licensing system, and the G1 knowledge test is the written exam that gets you there. These questions follow that exam. The test has 40 multiple-choice questions split into two scored sections: 20 on road signs and 20 on rules of the road. You need 80% in each section separately — 16 out of 20 on both — and you must clear both in the same sitting. A perfect score on signs will not make up for a weak result on rules, so practise the two halves separately. The test is not timed; most people finish in 20 to 30 minutes, and it is marked on the spot. The computerized version is available in 32 languages, including Chinese. Results stay valid for a year, and if you retry inside that year you only redo the section you failed. Applying costs $159.75, which is a package covering the knowledge test, your first G2 road test and a five-year licence. A knowledge-test retry is $16. You apply at a DriveTest centre without an appointment, bringing two original pieces of identification. You then hold G1 for 12 months before the first road test, or 8 months with a Ministry-approved driver education course.

Class D is New York's standard operator licence for passenger cars. The first step is the learner permit knowledge test these questions cover. The written test has 20 multiple-choice questions. You need at least 14 correct (70%). Four of the twenty are road-sign questions, and you must get at least two of those four right — a perfect score on rules will not save a weak signs section. The test is available in about 20 languages including Chinese. Questions come from the New York State Driver's Manual. Under-18 applicants follow the Graduated Driver License program after the permit.

Class C is California's ordinary licence for passenger cars and light trucks. Getting one starts with the DMV written knowledge test, which is what these questions cover. Applicants under 18 answer 46 questions and need 38 correct; applicants 18 and older answer 36 and need 30. The DMV publishes the pass mark as 80%, and those question counts work out slightly above that, so aim well clear of eight in ten. Every question is drawn from the California Driver's Handbook, which the DMV publishes free, and questions are pulled at random rather than in a fixed order. The test is available in 35 or more languages. One $46 application fee covers the instruction permit, up to three attempts at the written test and your eventual driving test. Applicants under 18 must wait seven days between attempts; fail three times and you file a fresh application and pay again. Note that DMV offices stop administering knowledge tests at 4:30 p.m., so book early in the day. The exam concentrates on right-of-way, speed limits and the basic speed law, signs, signals and pavement markings, alcohol and drug limits — 0.08% for adults and 0.01% under 21 — seat belts and child restraints, and parking rules. Under-18 applicants then hold the permit at least six months, complete six hours of professional training and log 50 hours of supervised practice, 10 of them at night, before the behind-the-wheel test.