Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program

Wyoming road test: how the WYDOT scores it

How Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program scores the Wyoming road test, the sourced facts that change how you prepare for it, and what ends an attempt on the spot.

Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program

What the Wyoming road test weighs.

Each note below is specific to Wyoming, read from Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program materials, so you know what its examiners weight and what its offices expect on the day.

First time applicants who have never been licensed in Wyoming or any other state have to pass a skills test of safe driving maneuvers. Nothing on the test asks you to break the law.

Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program

The skills test can be waived with a certification card from an approved driver education course showing 30 hours of classroom instruction and six hours behind the wheel. The card is honored for no longer than two years.

Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program

Applicants who fail the skills test have to wait 24 hours before testing again.

Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program
Before Wyoming will test you

What has to be done before the road test.

Wyoming gates the road test behind these, each read from the agency's own page and dated.

Supervised practice logged first

50 hours

Wyoming makes you log 50 hours of supervised driving, 10 of them at night before the road test.

Wyoming Department of Transportation, Learner Permits, verified 2026-08-28

Permit held before the test

10 days months

The permit has to be held for 10 days months in Wyoming before you can attempt the road test.

Wyoming Department of Transportation, Learner Permits, verified 2026-08-28
The rest of it

Automatic fails and test day.

See what can end a road test immediately before your appointment.