Test day

Nothing on the test day is hard in the way the material is hard. It is a logistics problem: be on time, carry the right card, sit at a computer for up to two hours, read a report afterward. People who know the material still lose a morning, and sometimes a fee, to the logistics. This chapter takes the surprises out of it.

If you have not yet read how the whole path fits together, orientation covers it, and the logistics page lays out every step from your FAA Tracking Number to the card in your mailbox. This chapter is about the one day in the middle.

Scheduling the sitting

The Unmanned Aircraft General test, “UAG” on every FAA document, is given at PSI’s FAA testing centers. You book it on PSI’s FAA scheduling site, which takes appointments around the clock: make an account, pick a date, a time and a location, and PSI emails a confirmation with the address and directions. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 2

Get your FTN first

Do one thing before you book. If you do not have an FAA Tracking Number, create an IACRA profile, which is the FAA’s online application system. The number it gives you is printed on your test report, and that is how your result finds its way to your FAA record. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 2 The number stays with you, so you will reuse it for the certificate application later.

The test costs money, and PSI, not the FAA, sets the price. The bulletin does not list a fee, so read the number on the scheduling screen as of October 2026 rather than trusting any figure in a study guide, this one included.

The cancel rule and the late rule

You may cancel or reschedule if PSI receives your notice at least 24 hours before the appointment. A voicemail does not count; you have to speak to a customer service representative. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 2

The other side of that rule is harsher. You can forfeit your opportunity to test, and the fee, if you do not show up, if you arrive after the start time, or if you cannot show proper identification. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 2 PSI recommends arriving at least 15 minutes early, and that is a real recommendation: check-in includes an ID check, emptying your pockets, and a question about prohibited items, and you want that to happen unhurried. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 2

Take the practice test on PSI’s site

PSI offers a free UAG practice test through its Exam Resources page. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 4 Take it once, partly for the questions and mostly for the interface. The FAA itself tells candidates to use PSI’s sample questions to get familiar with the newer format with images built into the questions. FAA Airman Testing Community Advisory, September 2026 Special Edition, p. 5 The site’s own full practice sittings will drill the content; the PSI practice test shows you the screen you will actually be looking at.

What to bring

Bring one thing: acceptable identification. The bulletin asks for valid, current ID that shows all four of a photo, a date of birth, a signature, and a physical residential address. The four can be spread across more than one document. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 2

For a U.S. citizen or resident alien, that is a state driver permit or license, a U.S. government ID card, a U.S. military ID, a passport, or an alien residency card. A non-citizen presents a passport plus either a U.S. driver permit or license or a government-issued ID card. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 2

The address is the usual trap. A post office box, a rural route, or a business address does not count as a residential address. If your license shows one of those, the bulletin lists substitute proofs such as a utility statement, a signed lease, or a mortgage statement, and you should bring one. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 3 Failing to bring the full set without telling PSI ahead of time counts as a missed appointment. The regulation behind all this is short: you need identification with a photograph, a signature, a date of birth, and a permanent mailing address. 14 CFR § 107.67(b)

What the testing center provides

You do not bring a pencil, paper, or a handbook. The center supplies the required supplement book, an accountable number of sheets of scratch paper, and a writing instrument, and FAA applicants may not bring their own writing implements. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 5

The testing software has a built-in four-function calculator. The bulletin also allows small arithmetic-only calculators with erasable memory and a few drafting tools such as a plotter or straightedge, but the proctor has the final say, and nothing in the Part 107 test needs more than the built-in one. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 5 Leave your own at home.

What stays outside

Phones, watches, bags, wallets, notebooks, food, drinks, and good-luck items stay outside the testing room. So do hats, coats, hooded clothing, and shirts with pockets. The room is kept at a moderate temperature, and PSI suggests layers: lightweight shirts, sweaters, and pullovers without pockets or hoods. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 5 Anyone found with a prohibited item in the room has the test result invalidated. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 5 Cheating of any kind can bar you from applying for any FAA certificate or test for a year. 14 CFR § 107.69(b)

The sitting

The sitting

Scored questions	60	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Unscored questions	5, mixed in	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Time allowed	120 minutes	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Passing score	70% correct (42 of 60)	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Answer options	Three, one correct	FAA sample questions

You will see 65 questions and be scored on 60 of them. The five extras are validation questions: the FAA tries out new items to see how test takers perform on them. They are mixed in, you cannot tell which they are, and the two hours already allow for them. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 4 So treat all 65 as real.

Every question has three options, lettered A to C, and one of them is the best answer. FAA Unmanned Aircraft General sample questions The score is the percent you answer correctly. Nothing in the scoring subtracts for a wrong answer, so an empty question is worth nothing and a guess might be worth a point. Never leave one unanswered.

Pacing

One hundred and twenty minutes across 65 questions is about 1.8 minutes each. That is generous. Most questions you know will take under a minute, and the time you save is what you spend on the slow ones. The point of pacing is not to rush, it is to avoid the one failure mode that actually costs people: spending eight minutes on question 12 and then reading the last fifteen questions in a panic.

The checkpoints in the figure are a guide, not a rule. The useful habit is a quick look at the clock every dozen questions or so. If you are ahead of the line, good. If you are well behind it, make your next few decisions faster.

Flag and return

The test software lets you mark a question for review and come back to it, and the FAA’s own test tips recommend exactly this: if a question is difficult, mark it, finish the easier ones, and use the remaining time to best advantage. FAA-S-ACS-10B, Appendix 2, Test Tips Make your best guess when you flag it, so there is an answer on the screen even if you never return.

Three options means you can eliminate

With three options you only have to be sure that one is wrong to turn a one-in-three guess into one-in-two. The FAA tells you the same thing in different words: only one answer is complete and correct, and the others are incomplete or erroneous. FAA-S-ACS-10B, Appendix 2, Test Tips Read the stem fully before looking at the options, then rule out anything that contradicts a rule you are sure of. The distractors are usually one word away from the truth, a wrong altitude or a swapped airspace class, which is why the explanations in the quiz bank dwell on them.

The supplement and the on-screen images

Some questions send you to a figure: a chart excerpt, a graph, a legend. For years those figures lived in a printed supplement booklet, FAA-CT-8080-2H, handed to you at check-in. FAA UAG Sample Airman Knowledge Test Questions You still get the supplement today. The FAA says candidates will keep access to it until it announces a removal date, which has not been set. FAA Airman Testing Community Advisory, September 2026 Special Edition, p. 5

What changed in October 2026 is that the test also has questions with the image embedded in the question itself. Beginning October 26, 2026, the UAG will include image-based questions not found in the test supplements, using clearer, up-to-date images from the latest sectional charts. FAA Airman Testing Community Advisory, September 2026 Special Edition, p. 6 The FAA will not let anyone preview the specific images, and it has not yet published how any on-screen tools, such as a ruler, will work. FAA Airman Testing Community Advisory, September 2026 Special Edition, p. 5

The sample questions show what that looks like: a stem that says “refer to the image below,” a current sectional with its date printed under it, and a question such as which airspace surrounds a particular airport, or which frequency to use when a tower is closed. FAA Airman Testing Community Advisory, September 2026 Special Edition, p. 9

What to expect by weight

The blueprint is not the one in the old Airman Certification Standards. A 2025 assessment replaced it, and PSI’s bulletin is the current source. FAA Airman Testing Community Advisory, August 2025, p. 3 The weights below, with the question counts they imply in a 60-question sitting, show where the points are.

Where the 60 scored questions come from

Regulations (UA.I)	48%, about 29 questions	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Airspace and operating requirements (UA.II)	20%, about 12	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Operations (UA.V)	25%, about 15	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Weather (UA.III)	5%, about 3	PSI bulletin, p. 4
Loading and performance (UA.IV)	2%, about 1	PSI bulletin, p. 4

Regulations alone are nearly half the test, so a solid grip on Part 107 itself is worth more than anything else you can do. Regulations, airspace and operations together make up 93% of the items. Weather and loading are small, but small is not zero, and every question is worth about 1.7 percent of the whole. Study them for the points you can still pick up, and do not skip them on the strength of the weights.

Your score report

When you finish, the center gives you an Airman Knowledge Test Report, the AKTR. It lists your name, the date, the test, a unique test identification number, your score, and the ACS codes for the questions you answered incorrectly. FAA-S-ACS-10B, Appendix 3, Knowledge Test Question Coding The UAG is one of the tests that prints ACS codes. FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix (rev. 9/25/26), p. 15 If you need another copy, you can reprint it from your PSI account. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 6

Reading the codes

An ACS code such as UA.I.B.K10 is a short address. UA means the Remote Pilot ACS, the Roman numeral is the area (here Regulations), the letter is the task within it, and the K number is the specific knowledge element. UA.I.B.K10 is visual line of sight operations. FAA-S-ACS-10B, Appendix 3, Knowledge Test Question Coding

You look the codes up in the ACS document, which lists every code with its wording. The report does not tell you which question you missed, only the element behind it, and that is the point. Passing with a few codes listed is normal. Failing with a cluster in one area tells you what to study before you retest. Either way the codes are the most precise feedback you will ever get on your own gaps, and the whole quiz bank is tagged with the same codes, so you can search the same element and drill it.

How long the report lasts

A passing AKTR is valid for 24 calendar months when you apply for the remote pilot certificate. FAA-S-ACS-10B, Appendix 3 So do not sit on it. Apply while it is fresh, and keep the original copy.

If you do not pass

A fail is a delay, not a verdict. The regulation is a single sentence: an applicant who fails may not reapply for the test for 14 calendar days. 14 CFR § 107.71 You must hand the failed report to the testing center before you retest. The proctor scans it and destroys the paper. No instructor endorsement and no other written authorization is required. PSI UAG Applicant Information Bulletin (eff. 2025-09-29), p. 4

Use those two weeks well. Read your codes, then go back to the matching chapters, and run a drill on exactly those elements before you rebook. The retest is the same kind of test, and you will walk in knowing the room.

What happens next

Passing is not the end of the paperwork. You complete the application for the certificate in IACRA, which is the online version of FAA Form 8710-13, and the report’s test ID number links your application to your score. The TSA vets you for security, you print a temporary certificate from IACRA, and a permanent card arrives by mail. A temporary certificate is issued for up to 120 calendar days. 14 CFR § 107.64(a) Because the application is not part of the sitting, the steps and the timing, which have varied between FAA sources, live on the logistics page, kept as of October 2026. A first-time applicant who tested at a PSI center does not need to meet an FAA-authorized person, because the testing center already established identity. FAA-S-ACS-10B, Appendix 3, How to Obtain the Remote Pilot Certificate

The night before and the morning of

A word on nerves

Being nervous is normal and mostly useless, so give it something to do. Read each question slowly the first time, because a rushed misread of “not” or “except” costs more points than not knowing the answer. Settle your breathing before you start, and when a question looks unfamiliar, remember that every question has three options and you only need to eliminate one. You are not trying to know everything. You need 42 of 60, which leaves room for 18 misses, and that is a lot of room.

If you want a dry run before the real thing, take a full sitting at the same length and pace, and read the explanations for what you miss. Then go sit the real one. The first time is no more frightening than the second, and the second is only two weeks away.

You should now be able to

• Book a PSI sitting, explain the 24-hour cancel rule, and show up with acceptable ID
• Pace 65 questions across 120 minutes, flag and return, and eliminate one of three options
• Read an unfamiliar sectional image using the legend in the supplement
• Say which areas carry the most weight and where your study time should go
• Read an Airman Knowledge Test Report and look up the ACS code of a missed item
• Explain the 14-day retest wait and what to do with a failed report