On the SAAQ knowledge test, road signs have their own section, passed separately — the format: 28 questions · 3 sections · 75% each. A gap on signs can’t be papered over with good road rules. Quizzing yourself on the signs is therefore not a side note of the preparation: it’s a subject in its own right, and a quiz is the right way to work on it — provided it tests the right thing.
Not catalogue memorization: what the sign demands behind the wheel. Sign questions put the sign in context — what must you do when it appears? — and play on the nuances between neighbouring signs: a stop sign requires a complete stop where a yield sign first asks you to slow down and let whoever has the right-of-way pass. A useful quiz tests you on those nuances, not just on the names.
Québec’s signs are worked on by family: prescription, danger, information, roadwork, traffic lights and road markings. Each family has its own logic — and its own exam traps. The page on Québec’s road signs presents them one by one; that family logic is also a good order for quizzing yourself: family by family first, then everything mixed, as on the test.
Permis 101’s library gathers 128 signs redrawn from the published specifications, sorted by official family, each with its meaning, where you meet it, and the exam trap if there is one. The quiz mode works in both directions and brings missed signs back. A free preview of 12 signs lets you try the library; the quiz is part of full access. And once the signs are down, the mock test checks that they hold up under real conditions.
The library’s free preview lets you browse 12 signs, with their meanings. The quiz mode — and the rest of the 128 signs — is part of full access.
No. The test examines what the sign demands behind the wheel: what it obliges you to do, here, now. Naming a sign without knowing what it commands is half the work — and not the half that earns points.
Both. Seeing a sign and finding its name is recognition; starting from the name and finding the sign is understanding. Both directions need work — Permis 101’s quiz mode does both, and brings missed signs back.
The neighbouring pairs: stop and yield, no parking and no stopping, obligation and prohibition. The test loves those nuances — the page on the sign families goes through them one by one.
The full library, search, exam traps — and a quiz mode that works in both directions and brings missed signs back until they stick.
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