Alabama written test scoring: 24 of 30

Alabama is one of the states where the honest answer is that the agency does not say. The Knowledge Test section of the December 2024 Alabama Driver Manual, the current edition posted by ALEA, sets out what the exam covers, confirms that automated testing on a computer is available to applicants at driver license offices, states the $5 charged for each attempt, and notes that checks are not accepted. It stops there. No question count appears, no passing score appears, and no time limit appears. The manual also sets no waiting period before a retest, so in practice the gap between attempts is decided by office hours and by how ready you are, not by a rule. Treat any 30 question or 80 percent figure you find for Alabama as a planning assumption drawn from prep providers rather than an ALEA standard, and study for a clean sheet instead of aiming at a threshold nobody has published.

The money side is published in full even though the format is not. ALEA charges $5 for each knowledge test attempt, and that charge repeats every time you sit the test. The learner license itself is $36.25 on top of the test charge, and a Class D license is the same $36.25 plus the $5 test charge. Checks are not accepted anywhere in that process, so bring a card or cash. Because there is no stated waiting period and no cap on attempts, a run of failures costs $5 each time rather than locking you out for a week or a month the way several neighboring states do.