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Indiana BMV
📋 Exam facts
Real Indiana exam administration — from the official source
- Practice questions (this site)
- 1281
- Testing agency
- Indiana BMV
- Real written-test languages
- English
- To pass
- 80% on each component (federal §383.135)
- Fee
- No separate test fee; CLP $17, CDL $35
- Retake policy
- Retake next business day; no attempt cap or retake fee published
- Languages note
- Indiana's multi-language knowledge exam is the non-commercial Operator Knowledge Examination only; the CDL knowledge exam offers no language option and references only the English CDL booklet — CDL is English only.
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🚌 School Bus (S) — additional Indiana 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
- Indiana Department of Education (DOE) & BMV
- State credential
- Indiana requires the school-bus (S) endorsement on the license (mandatory since October 1, 2005), earned via the passenger and school-bus knowledge tests, an S-endorsed CDL learner's permit, and a skills test in a representative school bus.
- Initial training
- 40 hours minimum
- Renewal / in-service
- A physical examination certificate from an examiner in the FMCSA National Registry, valid 24 months; drivers must meet the state physical-performance standards.
- Other prerequisites
- A driver with less than 30 days of school-bus driving experience in the prior three years must complete a preservice school bus driver safety education course (not to exceed 40 hours); pass the FMCSA-registry physical (24-month validity); and demonstrate physical-performance tasks (exit from a seat-belted position, climb/descend the service-door steps twice, open/close the service door twice).
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).