Alberta official handbook
Alberta Driver's Guide 2026
The official Driver's Guide that Alberta Transportation publishes for this test, 126 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Edition
- Spring 2026
- Pages
- 126
- Published by
- Alberta Transportation
Read the handbook
Opens on the Alberta Transportation website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
Driver's Guide: Cars and Light Trucks · 126 pages, 3.0 MB
All documents are hosted by Alberta Transportation, not by us. Visit the Alberta Transportation handbook page.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Alberta TransportationSpring 2026
Official source: Alberta Transportation- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Alberta handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why the Alberta handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the Class 7 knowledge test comes from what Alberta Transportation publishes in this handbook. Our 286 practice questions for Alberta are written from it too, so reading it once and then testing yourself is faster than doing either alone.
Read it end to end once, then use practice questions to find the parts you have not absorbed.
What the Alberta handbook covers
These 126 pages are the whole of what the test can draw on. Reading the list below is a quick way to find the parts you have not looked at yet.
- Getting your licence and the graduated licensing stages
- Traffic signs, signals and pavement markings
- Rules of the road, right of way and intersections
- Speed limits and following distance
- Turning, passing, lane changes and merging
- Parking rules and prohibited distances
- Sharing the road with cyclists, pedestrians and large vehicles
- School buses and emergency vehicles
- Impaired driving and the penalties that follow
- Winter, night and poor-visibility driving
- Collisions, breakdowns and what the law requires of you
Alberta test facts
Every figure here is Alberta Transportation's own for the Class 7 knowledge test, not a national average. Provinces genuinely differ, and studying another province's number is a common way to fail.
- Total questions
- 30 multiple-choice
- Pass mark
- ≈83% (25 of 30)
- Time limit
- No published time limit
- Minimum age
- 14 (with parental consent for Class 7)
- Languages
- 25 languages, with an audio version; oral test available
- Administered by
- Registry agents across Alberta
- Retake waiting period
- Once per day (no same-day retake); C$5 government fee plus up to C$12 registry charge per attempt