Montana · Montana Motor Vehicle Division
The Montana written test has 30 multiple-choice questions, and you need 23 correct answers to pass. DMV Champ teaches every question with its explanation, then checks you with 5 simulated tests in exactly that format.
30
questions
23
correct to pass
77%
passing score
None
time limit
The number of questions and the passing score are confirmed by ARM 23.3.121. Check the current Montana handbook before your test.
Montana’s test is a middle-length one: 22 jurisdictions ask fewer questions and 20 ask more. You need 77% to pass, which means you can miss 7 questions and still get your permit. There is no time limit, so read every question twice.
The test is given by the MVD (Montana Motor Vehicle Division). Its questions come from the official Montana driver’s handbook, which is also where every DMV Champ question is checked.
The Montana Driver Manual calls it the written test, so that is the phrase you’ll see at the counter and on the agency’s site. Passing it is how you get a non-commercial learner permit, which you can apply for from age 14 and a half in Montana.
35 topics in Montana: the 34 every state tests, plus winter driving, because the Montana handbook teaches it.
Test simulator
Pick Montana once in the app and every simulated test uses these figures. Nothing is revealed mid-test, and each attempt is graded against the 23-correct passing score at the end. Retake a test as often as you like, reordered each time.
What you study
Signs and signals, road rules, safe driving and driving laws. The topics come from the AAMVA guidelines every state builds its test on, checked against the Montana handbook. On Learn they’re cut into short practices of about ten questions, in seven steps from road signs to the laws, and every answer is explained the moment you check it.
No chapters to read first. Every practice question carries its answer and the reasoning, so a wrong answer is how the next thing is taught.
A question you get wrong goes to your mistakes in Review and comes back until you get it right there. Once you’ve answered every question and corrected every mistake, you’ve finished the learning phase.
Take a simulated test in the Montana format and see how likely you are to reach the 23-correct passing score. Your latest test counts the most.
Montana questions
30. The Montana written test has 30 multiple-choice questions, and you need 23 correct answers (77%) to pass.
7. With 30 questions and 23 needed to pass, you can get 7 wrong and still pass.
No. Montana does not put a time limit on the written test. Only 8 jurisdictions do.
14 and a half. In Montana the first permit is called a non-commercial learner permit, and the handbook sets 14 and a half as the youngest age for it. The written test is part of getting one.
From the official Montana driver’s handbook, which is what the MVD writes its test from. Every DMV Champ question is checked against it and explained the moment you answer.
A few questions a day is enough. Not in Montana?
