Everything worth reading before your Washington knowledge test, in one place and free — the official DOL driver guide in English and 简体中文, a printable study guide, and the page of numbers people usually lose points on. No sign-up, no email required.
The official driver’s manual published by the Washington State Department of Licensing — the book the knowledge test is written from. Road signs, right-of-way, speed limits, parking and the impaired-driving laws all come out of this one file.
Download PDF ↓ Need it in another language? 17 of them here →The same official DOL Driver Guide, published by the Department of Licensing in Simplified Chinese. If you plan to take the knowledge test in Chinese, study from this one — the wording matches the questions you will see.
Download PDF ↓ Book the knowledge test in Chinese →A short, printable study guide for the knowledge test — the kind of thing to go through the evening before you come in, once you have already read the driver guide.
Download PDF ↓ Prefer to read it online? Our study guide →One printable page with every number the test expects you to have memorised: how far from a hydrant or a crosswalk you may park, when to dim your high beams, the speed limits, the BAC and THC limits by age, and the deadlines for reporting an address change or a vehicle sale. English and Chinese side by side.
Download PDF ↓ The three-step study plan that uses it →The DOL’s own brochure listing which documents are accepted when you apply, and which combinations count. Worth checking before you make the trip — the wrong paperwork is the most common reason people get sent home.
Download PDF ↓ What to bring to a test with us →Our own one-page map of the order things happen in — what comes before the knowledge test, what comes after it, and where the road test fits. English and Chinese side by side.
Download PDF ↓ The same route, step by step →The DOL’s conversion table: wrong answers to a percentage, on the 40-question knowledge test. Eight wrong is exactly 80% — the pass mark. Nine wrong is 78%, and that is a fail.
Download PDF ↓ Practise until you are clear of that line →Yes. The Washington State Department of Licensing publishes it and it costs nothing — the English and Chinese copies on this page are the 2025 edition, and there is no sign-up to download them. DOL is the authority on which edition is current, so check dol.wa.gov if you want to be certain you have the newest one.
Forty multiple-choice questions, and you need 32 of them right — 80%. The DOL score calculator on this page is the official table: eight wrong answers land exactly on 80% and pass, nine wrong is 78% and does not.
The driver guide, in whichever language you will be tested in — everything else on this page is a shortcut through it. Then the “numbers to know” page for the parts you have to memorise, then our free practice test until you are scoring comfortably above 80%.
Yes. DOL publishes the driver guide in 17 languages, and our driver guide page links each official PDF directly. The knowledge test itself is offered in 13 languages, which is a shorter list — check that yours is on it before you book.
No. Nothing on this page is required at the door — these are study materials. What you do have to bring is your ID and your WDL number, and our must-read page for the knowledge test lists exactly what counts.
We refresh them when DOL republishes, but DOL’s own site is always the authority — if a rule changed last month, dol.wa.gov has it first. The material that decides most passes and fails (signs, right-of-way, distances, speed limits) does not change often.