Québec Driver's Handbook 2026

Why the Québec handbook is worth reading once

Every question on the SAAQ knowledge test comes from what Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) publishes in this handbook. Our 215 practice questions for Québec 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 Québec handbook covers

These 328 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

Québec test facts

Every figure here is Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ)'s own for the SAAQ knowledge test, not a national average. Provinces genuinely differ, and studying another province's number is a common way to fail.

Total questions

64 (32 signs + 32 road safety)

Pass mark

≈85% on each section (28/32 each)

Time limit

60 minutes

Minimum age

16 (with mandatory driver-education course)

Languages

French (primary), English available

Administered by

SAAQ service centres

Retake waiting period

Variable, check at your service centre