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Driver's permit test practice

Your New York permit test

1,216 practice questions from the New York State Driver's Manual

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Earn Your Wheels is a study app for the New York permit test. It takes you through the New York State Driver's Manual in short sections, quizzes you on every topic, and explains each answer with the handbook page it comes from. Its practice tests work like the real one, and it shows the score you'd likely get today and tells you when you're ready.

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Your first test each day is free once you sign in, and you don't need a card. For more than one test a day, Solo is $15 a month and Family is $20 a month for up to six people. We're an independent study app and aren't connected to any DMV or state agency.

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1,216practice questions

20questions on the New York test

39road signs to learn

66short sections in the study book

Exit 2For students and parents

For the student and the person helping them

Most students study for the permit test with a parent or another adult helping. Here is what Earn Your Wheels does for each of you.

If you're taking the test

  • The app always shows you what to study next, from the first page of the handbook to test day.
  • Practice on your phone in short sets of questions, and see why each answer is right, with the handbook page it comes from.
  • Take practice tests built like the New York test, and the app tells you when you're ready.
  • Your first test each day is free.

If you're helping someone get their permit

  • With the Family plan, one page shows who practiced this week, each person's weakest topic and their test date.
  • Practice alongside them or just follow along: up to six people share one Family plan for $20 a month.
  • There's nothing to install and no card to start, and you can stop the plan any time from the Account page.
  • Family members in another state we cover can join the same plan, and each one practices for their own state's test.

Exit 3Learn

The whole handbook, turned into practice

We went through the New York State Driver's Manual line by line and turned it into five things you can practice.

  • The study book puts the handbook in plain words, in 66 short sections.
  • Road signs: the 39 signs your state uses, drawn as they look on the road. Tap one to see what it means and what to do.
  • Numbers to know: the 154 distances, speeds, days and dollar amounts the test asks about, each on its own card.
  • Road markings show the 13 lines and colors painted on the road and what each one lets you do.
  • Practice questions on every topic: new ones come first, and the ones you missed come back sooner.
The study book on a phone: the handbook in plain words, one section at a time
The YIELD sign opened on a tablet: what it means, where you see it and what the test asks
Numbers to know on a phone, each on its own card

Exit 4Practice

See right away why an answer is right or wrong

As you practice, each answer is marked right or wrong as soon as you pick it.

When you miss one, the app tells you why, gives you the rule to remember, and shows the page of the New York State Driver's Manual it comes from, along with the law when there is one.

A right answer on a phone, marked green, with the handbook page it comes from
A missed answer on a phone, marked red, with why it's wrong, the rule to remember and the handbook page

Exit 5Sources

Every answer shows where it comes from

We write each question from the New York State Driver's Manual, and each explanation names the page it comes from. Before a question reaches you, independent reviewers check it against those sources, and if we can't point to a source for a question, we leave it out.

The page in the New York State Driver's Manual, and the law when there is one

Earn Your Wheels is a study app. We're independent and aren't connected to the DMV or any state agency.

Exit 6Test

Practice tests built like the New York test

The New York test has 20 questions, and you can miss 6. Every practice test here has the same number of questions and lets you miss the same number.

  • If you answer right, it goes straight to the next question, and if you miss one, it tells you why. Like the real test, it stops once you've missed too many to pass.
  • There's a set of sample tests you can take again and compare.
  • When you finish, every question is explained, whether you got it right or not.
A test like the real one on a phone, counting the misses you have left

Exit 7Progress

Know when you're ready for the real test

Your progress page shows you:

  • How many questions you'd likely get right if you took the test today, next to the passing score.
  • Your last five practice tests. When all five are 90% or better, the app tells you you're ready.
  • The topic you miss most, and how many questions you've answered in all.
  • Your score on every topic, counted the way the New York test counts it.
The progress page on a laptop: the likely score today, five passing practice tests, and ready for the real test

Exit 8Family

One plan for the whole family

We built Earn Your Wheels for our own family of seven after we moved here and all needed licenses. The Family plan covers up to six people for $20 a month, and one page shows how each person would score on a test today and who would already pass.

  • See who practiced this week and who hasn't yet.
  • See each person's weakest topic and their test date.
  • Family members in different states each get their own state's test, in any state that's open.
  • Teens and adults can study together, and a parent can follow along without taking tests.
The family page on a laptop: five people's likely scores today, one of them already passing

Exit 9Anywhere

On your phone, your tablet or your computer

It works in the web browser on your phone, tablet or computer, so there's nothing to install. Sign in on any of them and your progress is there. It also has a dark mode, which turns on when your phone or computer is set to dark.

Earn Your Wheels' home screen on a laptop, showing what to study next
The same screen on a tablet
The same screen on a phone
The same screen on a phone in dark mode

Exit 10Other states

Moving, or family in another state?

If you move, switch your state on your Account page. Your record stays with you, and the new state starts fresh.

One Family plan covers up to six people in any of the states open now, and each person learns their own state's test.

We open the states in the order of how many people take their permit test each year. We are not opening new states for the moment, so North Carolina, the next one, has no week yet.

How the permit works in New York

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Tap a state on the map to vote for it.

When enough people ask for a state, it moves up the list of states we build next. One vote per email address.

Exit 11Plans

Plans

Free

$0

one test a day

Take one test a day once you sign in, with the same questions and explanations as the paid plans, and keep your progress.

Solo

$15

a month

For one person, with as many tests and topics as you like each day.

Family

$20

a month

For up to six people, each with everything in Solo, and one page to see how everyone is doing.

You can stop your plan any time from your Account page. If you tell us you passed, we'll stop the next bill, and you keep everything until the end of the month you paid for.

Your first test today is free

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It works on your phone and on a computer, with nothing to install and no card needed.

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