Punishing Permit Test

Before you come to conclusions and assume that I'm not smart because I thought the permit test was hard, let me explain.

If you ask almost any fifteen or sixteen year old about the permit test, most would say that it was a piece of cake.

"It was annoying cause it took forever, but it's super easy," an anonymous 9th grader stated.

"And how long did it take you to finish the test?" I asked them.

"45 or 50 minutes, probably."

Well, that wasn't the case for me. That morning I asked my mom to pick me up from school so we could go straight there. The place closes at 5 pm and it says on their website that all tests have to be done by 4, so I wanted to get there earlier. School ends at 2:25, so by 2:30 I figured we would be driving down to the DMV in Heber.

Wellll, after not being able to find my social security card, we ended up leaving for the DMV at 4:15. We got there, filled out the forms, and took my picture. After all of that the guy entering everything asks one of his co workers what time I had to take the test by. Luckily he said that it had to be done by 4:50, which left me at that time fifteen minutes to start and finish it.

I said that I would take it, and after warning me about the time and so on, he finished entering my stuff. I ended up starting the test at 4:40. Yep. I only had 10 minutes to take the permit test, which, by the way, is 50 questions.

And yes, I failed. I ended up with a score of 38/50, which was the cherry on top of my wonderful evening. Why? The score that was required to pass was a 40/50, which meant I would have passed had I gotten just two more questions right.

My permit!

If you live in Utah, are about to turn fifteen (or already have), and wan't go get your permit, study the Utah Drivers Handbook. Most people have them on hand from past tests, or you can find them at any DMV. I found a PDF version online that I've been using to study. Click here to open it.