Manitoba Driver's Handbook 2026

Why the Manitoba handbook is worth reading once

Every question on the MPI knowledge test comes from what Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) publishes in this handbook. Our 168 practice questions for Manitoba 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 Manitoba handbook covers

These 142 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

Manitoba test facts

Every figure here is Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI)'s own for the MPI 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 time limit

Minimum age

16 (15-and-9-months with Driver-Z)

Languages

English; French and others available at certain MPI centres

Administered by

MPI service centres

Retake waiting period

Same day at most centres