Topic 4 · Defensive Driving and Safe Driving Practices
When it is raining at night you should use:
- Low-beam headlights — correct answer
- High-beam headlights, for extra reach
- Parking lights only
Why
Low beams in the rain, and never drive on parking lights alone. (Section 8, Darkness.)
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.