South Dakota DPS Practice Tests and Driver Guides 2026

Free South Dakota permit practice on 307 questions, grouped into 15 topics, with no sign-up and no payment. 87 of them are road sign questions and 220 cover road rules.

What South Dakota asks of you

South Dakota issues an instruction permit from age fourteen - among the youngest in the country - and lets an approved driver education course waive the knowledge test entirely for a year.

The permit is held for 275 days if you have not taken driver education, or 180 days if you have, and the fifty hours of supervised practice must include ten at night and ten in inclement weather.

The full rules, fees and holding periods are set out in our South Dakota driver's license guide, which quotes the DPS’s own pages.

Start practising

• South Dakota car practice test — work through the 15 topics one at a time
• South Dakota mock exam — a timed 50-question paper drawn at random from the 307
• South Dakota driver's license guide — fees, ages and what to bring

Every question comes with the correct answer, so a wrong one teaches you something. These are practice questions written to the topics the South Dakota Driver License Manual covers — they are not the DPS’s own test questions, and nothing here replaces the South Dakota Driver License Manual itself.