Topic 2 · Requirements and Process
If you get a provisional license at 16, when do the extra restrictions end?
- After 30 days
- After your first traffic ticket
- After 12 months or when you turn 18 — correct answer
Why
After 12 months, or on your 18th birthday if that comes first. (Handbook, Section 2.)
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.
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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