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Topic 1 · Introduction

If you are preparing for the written DMV exam, you should:

Why

Work through the handbook section by section. The test is drawn from it directly, so nothing on it comes from anywhere else. (Handbook, Section 3.)

Practise this in the real format

Reading one answer is not the same as sitting the test. The simulator runs the first-time adult form: 36 questions, 6 mistakes allowed, 83% to pass.

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Source: California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), the document the DMV writes the real test from. Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.

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