DMV permit test · New Hampshire
As of October 26, 2026, the New Hampshire DMV knowledge test has 40 multiple-choice questions on the rules of the road, with 40 minutes to finish (per dmv.nh.gov, checked on Oct 26, 2026).
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From 15½, an unlicensed New Hampshire teen may drive while being taught if accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or a licensed responsible adult who is at least 25.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 1 — Practice Driving
The automated test has 40 multiple-choice questions with four answers each and a 40-minute limit. Once more than 8 answers are wrong, it stops on its own.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 1 — Required Driver’s License Tests
Applicants who fail either the knowledge test or the road test get a retest appointment no sooner than ten days from the failed test.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 1 — Pass/Fail of Tests
A Youth Operator under 18 may not drive between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. The same license also limits young passengers for the first six months.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 2 — Specific Restrictions for Youth Operators
The presumed safe gap is 3 feet at 30 mph or less, plus one more foot for every 10 mph above 30. At 50 mph that is 5 feet.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 11 — Bicyclists
A posted school zone limit is 10 mph below the usual posted limit, from 45 minutes before school opens until it opens and from closing until 45 minutes after.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 5 — Speed Management
Drivers must stop at least 25 feet away in any direction unless a physical barrier separates the roadway, and wait until the bus moves or its red lights stop flashing.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 7 — Rules for School Buses
New Hampshire allows 70 mph on that stretch of I-93. Most interstate and turnpike sections with four or more divided lanes are 65 mph.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 5 — Speed Management
New Hampshire bars operators under 21 from driving with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more, or while impaired by alcohol or any drug.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 3 — Alcohol, Other Drugs and Driving
Signal at least 100 feet before a turn, and at least 500 feet before changing lanes or exiting on a highway. Signal even earlier in rain, snow or fog.
From New Hampshire Driver’s Manual · Section 5 — Communicating and Signaling
Forty multiple-choice questions, each with four answers, taken on a touch screen with a 40-minute limit. The test stops by itself as soon as more than 8 answers are wrong.
It is offered in eight languages, including ASL, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese, and an audio version with headphones is available on request. The manual never states a passing percentage, so this page leaves that figure out.
There is no permit. At 15½ a teen without a license may drive while learning, as long as a parent, guardian or licensed responsible adult 25 or older is in the car.
The license itself comes at 16 or later, after approved driver education for 16- and 17-year-olds, and anyone licensed before 21 gets the vertical Youth Operator card.
Sources: Section 1: Driving in New Hampshire · Section 2: Driver’s License and Non-Driver ID Information
No driving from 1 a.m. to 4 a.m., no more riders than seat belts, and for the first six months at most one passenger under 25 from outside the family unless a licensed adult 25 or older comes along.
Phones are off limits behind the wheel for drivers under 18, hands-free included, except to call 911 or another public safety agency in an emergency.
Sources: Section 2: Driver’s License and Non-Driver ID Information · Section 3: Dangerous Driving
You leave with a new appointment, set at least ten days after the failed attempt. The same wait applies to the road test.
Each line is one rule from an official New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles page, with the date we read it.
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A Youth Operator license is priced at $10 for each year until age 21. A standard operator license costs $50, or $60 for REAL ID. Source: official page "Licensing Fees", checked on Oct 26, 2026.
Besides 10 hours behind the wheel with a driver education instructor, a teen logs 40 more supervised hours with a parent, guardian or responsible adult, at least 10 of them at night. Source: official page "Section 1: Driving in New Hampshire", checked on Oct 26, 2026.
No. OneTryPass writes its own practice questions from the rules in the New Hampshire Driver’s Manual, and each question names the part of the handbook it comes from so you can check the rule.
No. OneTryPass is an independent practice site and is not part of the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles. The New Hampshire Driver’s Manual is free at dmv.nh.gov.
Every rule on this page comes from the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles' own website or handbook. OneTryPass reads the page, writes the rule in plain English and records the date. A rule that passes its re-check date leaves this page on its own until it is read again.
How often each kind of rule is read again: knowledge test, 120 days; minimum age, 365 days; fees, 90 days; if you fail, 180 days; permit rules, 365 days; what to bring, 180 days; official handbook, 180 days.
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