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Ontario licensing

The road test

This page covers Ontario only. Québec licenses drivers under its own Code de la sécurité routière through the SAAQ, a separate regime this section does not cover — see the fines and demerit-point pages for the material that does treat both provinces. Ontario’s graduated system runs each learner through two road tests: the level 1 exit test (G1→G2, M1→M2) and the level 2 exit test (G2→G, M2→M). Both are examined the same way under the regulation, and neither comes with a published fault count or minimum duration — the examiner’s judgment of the drive is the rule, and this page states that as the finding it is.

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The two exit tests

How the road test is graded

Ontario’s graduated system runs a car-track applicant through two on-road exams (the level 1 test from G1 to G2, then the level 2 test from G2 to full G) and a motorcycle-track applicant through the equivalent pair (M1 to M2, then M2 to full M). Both levels are examined under the same regulatory standard.

ONTARIOFINDING

No published duration or fault count

O. Reg. 340/94 authorizes only “a demonstration of the person’s ability to drive safely a motor vehicle of a class authorized,” with no minimum test length and no fault-count arithmetic anywhere in either instrument. The examiner’s judgment of that demonstration is the rule, not a score against a printed threshold. DriveTest.ca is the only remaining candidate authority for an operative fault rule, and its public pages do not state one either.
SourceO. Reg. 340/94 (Drivers' Licences), s. 15(1)(b) · Current as of 18 August 2026
SourceHighway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 32(5) · Current as of 18 August 2026

Training

No minimum instructed hours are required

ONTARIOFINDING

Ontario prescribes no minimum driving or riding hours

A Ministry-approved driver education course (car track) or motorcycle training course (motorcycle track) exists and is entirely optional. Completing one shortens a later novice hold period, and a police-service motorcycle course additionally waives the level 1 exit test outright — but a candidate who takes neither may still sit every examination on the ordinary schedule.
SourceO. Reg. 340/94 (Drivers' Licences), s. 28(5) · Current as of 18 August 2026
SourceO. Reg. 340/94 (Drivers' Licences), s. 28(6) · Current as of 18 August 2026
SourceO. Reg. 340/94 (Drivers' Licences), s. 28(7), (8) · Current as of 18 August 2026

After the test

Retakes

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