PermitPrep is a free, ad-supported study resource for the US driver licensing process. We are not affiliated with any state DMV, and we are not a driver education school. We are a small team of editors and former driving instructors who got tired of seeing learners pay $30 for low-quality practice question banks that recycled the same fifteen questions across every "state" version.
What we do
We publish state-specific DMV permit practice tests for all 50 states, plus long-form study guides on the topics that appear most often: road signs, right-of-way, speed limits, alcohol and drugs, sharing the road, parking, and license reinstatement. Every quiz pulls from a question bank built from publicly available state driver handbooks. We update the bank quarterly to match handbook changes, and we re-fact-check every state guide against the current edition of that state's official handbook before each update cycle.
Why it's free
A learner driver shouldn't have to pay to study for a test that is itself free to take. Permit fees and insurance premiums are already a substantial cost for a teenager or new resident, and the DMV handbook itself is free to download in every state. We monetize through display advertising and the occasional clearly-labeled sponsored guide — never as a paywall, never as gated content, never as a forced email signup.
What we don't do
We don't sell email lists. We don't store your quiz answers on our servers. We don't require an account or a phone number. We don't pretend to be the official DMV or imply any government affiliation. Every link to an actual DMV office on this site goes directly to that state's official `.gov` website — never to an intermediary, never to an affiliate redirect, never to a paid lead-generation form.
Editorial standards
Every state guide is fact-checked against the current edition of that state's official driver handbook before publication, and re-checked at least annually. When a state updates its handbook, we update our content within 60 days. When we make a factual mistake, we correct it visibly in the article with a dated correction notice at the top — we don't quietly edit and pretend it was always right. Sponsored content, when present, is labeled in the headline and again above the body.
Who's behind this
The site is run by a small editorial team with backgrounds in driver education, technical writing, and software. Contributing reviewers include current and former driving-school instructors in California, Texas, Florida, and New York. We're listed as the responsible publisher in the `humans.txt` file at the root of this domain.
Contact
Questions, corrections, partnership inquiries, or press requests: see our contact page. We aim to reply to every email within two business days, and we publish a quarterly transparency note summarizing the corrections we've issued.