What is the minimum age to apply for a Texas learner license?
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A.
15 Correct
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B.
14
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C.
16
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D.
17
The answer is "15"
Texas requires a learner license applicant to be at least 15 but no more than 18. Answer C is the trap: 16 is the minimum for the provisional license (the stage that follows the learner license), and test-takers focused on that later, better-known milestone often reach for it as the first-permit age too.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. 14
Fourteen falls below the minimum age Texas sets for a learner license applicant. This answer confuses a younger classroom-only driver-education starting age with the age at which a Texas learner license itself may be issued.
C. 16
Sixteen is the minimum age for the provisional license, not the learner license that precedes it. This answer anchors on 16 as the well-known Texas driving-age milestone, overlooking that a learner license must be held for six months before a provisional license is issued at that age.
D. 17
Seventeen is above the minimum age Texas sets for a learner license. This answer confuses a later teen driving milestone with the starting age at which a Texas learner license may first be issued.
This question tests your knowledge of Graduated Licensing in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Chapter 1: Your License to Drive (Learner License (Instruction Permit))," p.1..
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