Connecticut gives you 25 questions and lets you miss five. Fail and it costs seven days and another $40, so signs — the section you can make nearly perfect in an evening — are the obvious place to bank marks before you book.
Our questions describe signs in words rather than showing pictures. Identify one from its shape, color and purpose without seeing it and you have learned the system rather than a set of images.
This quiz uses 25 questions and 20 to pass, the same format and 80 percent bar as the real Connecticut knowledge test.
Connecticut Road Signs Test
Learn the system, not the pictures
Shapes
- Octagon — stop, and only stop
- Triangle on its point — yield
- Diamond — a warning about what is ahead
- Pentagon — school zone or crossing
- Round — a railroad crossing is ahead
- Crossbuck — the crossing itself, with a numeral for the number of tracks
- Pennant, on the left — a no passing zone begins
Colors
- Red stops or prohibits
- Yellow warns about the road
- Orange means a work zone
- Fluorescent yellow-green means people crossing
- Green gives direction and distance
- Blue lists motorist services
- Brown points to parks and historic sites
- White with black text states the law
Rotaries and New England winters
- Rotaries are common across Connecticut. Yield to traffic already circulating, hold your lane, and signal your exit rather than your entry
- Black ice forms first on bridges, overpasses and shaded curves, because they lose heat from underneath as well as above
- Narrow older streets in the shoreline towns and city centers leave little room, so lane markings matter more than they would on a wide suburban road
- Advisory plates under curve signs are guidance rather than law, but on ice they are the number that keeps you on the road
Why signs are worth more in Connecticut
Two things make preparation unusually valuable here. Failing the knowledge test means a seven-day wait and the $40 exam fee again, where most states let you return the next business day. And since 1 January 2026 you cannot even sit the test without first completing the free online Work Zone Safety Course and bringing the printed certificate.
Signs are the fastest section to make reliable, so it is the sensible place to bank marks before booking an appointment you only get one shot at that week.
Next steps
Once you are consistently above 22 out of 25 here, move to the full Connecticut practice test, which covers the exam process, the documents you must bring, the eight-hour teen program and alcohol law with the statutes behind it. The whole licensing process is on the Connecticut permit guide, or compare states on our states page.
Disclaimer: Pass The Permit is an independent study resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles or any government agency. Our questions are original practice material, not real exam questions. Always confirm current requirements against the official Connecticut Driver’s Manual and portal.ct.gov/dmv.