What's the Passing Score on the Utah Permit Test?

Forty right out of fifty is the bar. That leaves exactly ten questions you can afford to get wrong before the whole attempt fails, regardless of which ones they are.

Guessing your way through even a small cluster of related questions — say, everything on right-of-way — can burn through that margin faster than it feels like it should.

80% is a minimum, not something to land on exactly. Real test-day conditions — a proctor watching, a harder question order — tend to cost a few points compared to relaxed practice at home.

A topic-level breakdown after each practice set matters more here than the single overall number, since it's the one weak category that sinks an otherwise strong score.

0.05% is the adult limit — the lowest in the country and easy to misremember as 0.08% out of habit from other states' material.

0.01% or higher triggers the separate "Not a Drop" rule for anyone under 21, a distinct threshold from the adult one, and the exam expects both numbers kept straight.

A full explanation on a missed practice question closes that gap; the correct letter by itself doesn't.