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CDL — Commercial Driver's License in Georgia
Georgia Dept. of Driver Services (DDS)
📋 Exam facts
Real Georgia exam administration — from the official source
- Practice questions (this site)
- 1281
- Testing agency
- Georgia DDS
- Real written-test languages
- English
- To pass
- 80% (DDS: passing score for all knowledge tests is 80%)
- Fee
- $10 permit fee (before tests; re-paid each retry) + $35 commercial application
- Retake policy
- Wait 2 days after a failure; appointment required; $10 re-paid each attempt
- Languages note
- Georgia's multi-language list applies to NON-commercial exams only; CDL is English.
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🚌 School Bus (S) — additional Georgia requirements
Beyond the federal CDL School Bus knowledge + skills test, this state adds its own school-bus driver credential. (Practice here covers the knowledge test only.)
- Administering agency
- Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS); SBOE Rule 160-5-3-.08
- State credential
- Georgia requires a CDL with passenger and school-bus endorsements; since February 7, 2022, formal entry-level training is required before the federal background check, and the bus skills test must be passed.
- Renewal / in-service
- Maintain the CDL school-bus endorsement per DDS; school districts apply additional in-service requirements under State Board of Education Rule 160-5-3-.08.
- Other prerequisites
- Hold a CDL (required to drive a vehicle designed to seat more than 16 including the driver) with a passenger endorsement; pass the general-knowledge, passenger and school-bus knowledge tests (80%) and the school-bus skills test; complete formal training; and clear a TSA/Department of Homeland Security background check with fingerprinting.
Languages, fees and rules change — confirm with the official source linked for each state. 待核 / 'To confirm' = not yet confirmed from an official source (shown honestly, never guessed). The 2025 federal English-Language-Proficiency action is roadside out-of-service enforcement, not a state test-language mandate; states set their own written-test languages (Texas and Florida moved to English-only in 2026).