Boating practice tests
Private practice site. Chapbook is not a government agency and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any department of motor vehicles, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or any state or county agency. These are practice tests written by us to help you study. They are not the official test, and passing here does not give you a licence, a permit, a card, or a certificate of any kind.
Practice only. This is not an approved boating safety course, and finishing it does not satisfy any state boater education requirement and does not give you a boater card or certificate. Each state keeps its own list of approved courses, and every state page in this section carries a link to that state's own list, because national approval and state acceptance are two different things.
Facts about the real tests
- States in the first boating wave
- FL, CA, NY, TX, MI, MN, NC, OH
- Package per state
- Requirements page and 2 practice tests
- Bank per state
- Banks are written at 160 to 200 questions per state and ship only after two checks
- Rules
- Set by birth date cutoffs in most states
State rules checked against state boating publications before each bank ships. A national course standard and a state acceptance are two different things, and our pages keep them apart. Checked 2026-11-03.
Where the real card comes from
For the card itself, take an approved course from the list kept by your own state's boating agency. A course can meet the national standard and still not be accepted by your state, so the state's list is the one that counts. No state pages ship in this wave yet, so no course links sit on this hub. When a state page ships, the link to that state's approved course list ships on the page with it.
Where this section stands
No boating test is live yet. This section arrives in a later wave, after citizenship and the first four car states. Each state bank is written from that state's boating rules, every question ships only after two independent checks, and every page carries the practice only boating notice and that state's own approved course list link.
Live now: citizenship practice tests and car practice tests for California, Texas, Florida, and New York.