Texas practice test, equipment, registration, and insurance
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The set where old Texas study material is most often wrong. There is no annual safety inspection for a non-commercial vehicle since January 1, 2025; emissions testing remains, in the emissions counties only, with Bexar County joining for registrations from November 1, 2026. Paper temporary tags are gone since July 2025: metal plates, and transfer rules under section 504.901. Financial responsibility and the uninsured driving offence close the set.
Each topic set draws up to 20 questions from that topic in the Texas bank and grades against our practice target of 80 percent. That target is our study goal. DPS publishes no pass mark for the Class C test, and none is implied here.
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Your car's registration renewal is due in 2026. Does it need a safety inspection first?
✓ Correct answer: No; non-commercial vehicles have not needed a safety inspection before registration since January 1, 2025
The annual safety inspection for cars ended at the start of 2025. Commercial vehicles still get safety inspections, and emissions testing survives in its own counties, which is the next question's ground. (Texas Transportation Code ch. 548, as amended by HB 3297.)
Texas Transportation Code ch. 548, as amended by HB 3297, checked 2026-11-03.
What are the minimum liability limits Texas law sets?
✓ Correct answer: 30/60/25: $30,000 for one person's injury, $60,000 per crash for injuries, $25,000 for property damage
Thirty, sixty, twenty-five is the Texas trio. The 15/30/5 option is California's old set of figures, retired even there, and it is the classic wrong answer on this question. (Texas Transportation Code sec. 601.072(a-1).)
Texas Transportation Code sec. 601.072(a-1), checked 2026-11-03.
A driver removes the front plate because the car looks better without it. Lawful?
✓ Correct answer: No; Texas requires a plate at the front and at the rear
Looks are not an exception in the plate section. A plate lying on the dashboard is also not attached at the front of the vehicle in the way the rule means. (Texas Transportation Code sec. 504.943(a).)
Texas Transportation Code sec. 504.943(a), checked 2026-11-03.
A car with expired registration sits in its owner's private driveway and is never driven. Has the expired-registration offence been committed?
✓ Correct answer: No; the offence is driving an unregistered vehicle on a highway, and a car that never leaves the driveway is not driven
Registration is a condition of using the road. The offence in the registration chapter is operating the vehicle on a highway while unregistered; a car standing on private ground is untidy paperwork, not the offence. (Texas Transportation Code secs. 502.407(a) and 502.472.)
Texas Transportation Code secs. 502.407(a) and 502.472, checked 2026-11-03.
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Facts strip
- Questions on the real test
- DPS does not publish the number
- Pass mark
- DPS does not publish it
- Time limit
- Not published by DPS
- Learner licence fee
- $16, under 18
- Class C fee
- $33, ages 18 to 84
- Test languages
- English and Spanish
Facts checked against Texas DPS pages, 2026-11-03. Official information: Texas Department of Public Safety, dps.texas.gov.
Corrections note
No corrections yet. Last checked 2026-11-03, against the Texas Transportation Code and DPS published facts.