A 19-year-old Illinois first-time applicant who never completed a high school or commercial driver education program must first complete what?
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A.
Fifty hours of supervised behind-the-wheel practice.
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B.
A six-hour Adult Driver Education Course. Correct
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C.
A defensive driving course from the DMV.
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D.
A 30-hour classroom driver education course.
The answer is "A six-hour Adult Driver Education Course."
First-time drivers age 18-20 without prior driver ed must complete a six-hour Adult Driver Education Course through a Secretary of State certified provider. Fifty hours of practice is the trap: that figure attaches to drivers under 18, and readers who remember one supervised-driving number without pinning it to an age group reach for it here.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Fifty hours of supervised behind-the-wheel practice.
The 50-hour supervised-practice rule applies to drivers under age 18, not to adult first-time applicants. This answer carries the teen practice-hour figure across the age line, applied by readers who never separated the two age groups.
C. A defensive driving course from the DMV.
The manual names the six-hour Adult Driver Education Course, not a defensive driving course, for this applicant. This answer substitutes a generic-sounding safety course name for the specific one the statute requires.
D. A 30-hour classroom driver education course.
The 30-hour classroom load is not what Illinois sets for the adult first-time applicant. This answer reaches for the length of a typical high school driver ed course, a familiar number that never appears in this section.
This question tests your knowledge of Graduated Licensing in Illinois. Source: Illinois Rules of the Road, "Age Restrictions: Drivers 16-21," p.5..
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