It’s a computer-based test, taken at an SAAQ service centre. Its format — 28 questions · 3 sections · 75% each — is explained in full on the home page. To go further: the knowledge test guide.
Yes. The SAAQ offers the test in French or English, your choice, and may also offer it in Arabic, Spanish or Mandarin on request. Confirm what’s available at your service centre when you book.
The test has 28 questions · 3 sections · 75% each — the three sections and their thresholds are spelled out in one place, on the home page.
75%, in every section — there is no overall average, and passing two sections out of three isn’t enough. The full format — 28 questions · 3 sections · 75% each — is on the home page. To go further: the passing score, explained.
You have to wait 28 days before trying again — but you only retake the section or sections you failed, not the whole test. The app has a path built for exactly that: you tell it which section you’re retaking, and it concentrates your preparation there. To go further: the 28-day rule and how the retake works.
$13.50, paid to the SAAQ for each attempt — including a retake of a failed section. Check the current fee when you book, on the SAAQ website.
Directly with the SAAQ. A fee applies to every attempt. The app tells you when your readiness score clears the threshold with room to spare — that’s the moment to book.
In many cases, yes: a lot of newcomers have to pass the Class 5 knowledge test to get their Québec licence. The exact rules depend on the licence you hold, so check your own situation with the SAAQ. If the test does apply to you, the app has a path built for licence exchanges. To go further: the test, seen from a licence exchange.
That’s its whole purpose. Questions are drawn to the real format, the test is timed, there’s no feedback along the way, and the result is a verdict per section at the real pass thresholds. To go further: the mock test: practising under real conditions.
15 practice questions with their full explanations, 3 right-of-way scenarios, a free preview of the road-sign library — 12 signs to browse, with the rest of the catalogue visible but locked — and your readiness score, which is measured against the complete question bank (the free preview covers only a small part of it). No account, no time limit.
The whole question bank (about 600), unlimited mock tests, the right-of-way trainer (27 illustrated scenarios), the quiz and library of 128 Québec road signs, spaced review of your mistakes, a readiness score with no ceiling (the free preview caps yours at a few per cent, since only its questions can be mastered) and the history of your statistics. For $19.99 CAD, once, for life.
No. One purchase unlocks everything, permanently. No subscription, no ads, no “coins” to buy back, no countdown discounts.
Yes. The free content is built into the app, so you can start with no connection at all. After the purchase, the full question bank downloads once, and then everything — practice, mock tests, review — works offline.
iPhone, for now. The app isn’t available on Android at the moment.
English and French — you pick, and you can switch whenever you like. Neither version is a machine translation: the French is Québec French, and the English was written for the Québec test rather than translated from it.
No. No account, no email address, no password. All of your progress stays on your device — the details are in the privacy policy.
The purchase is tied to your store account, not to your device: your Apple Account on the App Store or, on Android, your Google Account on Google Play. On the new device: app settings → “Restore my purchases”, signed in with the same Apple Account or the same Google Account. Your study progress follows you automatically from one iPhone to the next if both are signed in to iCloud, or through your old device’s backup — the iCloud backup on iPhone, your Google Account’s Android backup on Android.
Yes. A purchase is tied to the store it was made in — the App Store to your Apple Account, Google Play to your Google Account — and doesn’t carry over from one to the other: each store collects the payment and attests the purchase, and since the app works without an account, nothing on our side can connect the two. On Android, full access is therefore bought again in Google Play, at the same price. Your progress doesn’t cross platforms either: iCloud on one side, Android backup on the other.
Purchases go entirely through the store, so refunds do too. On the App Store: you request one from Apple, at reportaproblem.apple.com. On Google Play: within 48 hours of the purchase, directly from Google (how); after that, write to us and we handle it from our Google Play console, as the case may be. We never see your payment details.
Use “Report this question” inside the app — the report is anonymous and reaches us with the exact version of the content. Every report is checked against the SAAQ’s official study guides, and we correct quickly if there’s an error.
The terms of use (licence, purchase, refunds) and the privacy policy (your data) are published here, and reachable from the app. Permis 101 is an independent app, not affiliated with the SAAQ.
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