The Ontario G road test

• Traffic check: on the ramp, as soon as you can see freeway traffic coming from behind, check your mirrors and blind spot for a space to merge. Keep watching ahead, your mirrors and your blind spot until you can merge safely.
• Signal: turn it on as soon as freeway traffic can see you on the ramp.
• Space: keep at least two to three seconds behind the vehicle ahead on the ramp and while merging. Don't merge beside another vehicle or into its blind spot. Stay inside the lane markings on the ramp and in the acceleration lane.
• Speed: on the ramp's curve, go slowly enough that nothing in the car gets pushed around; in the acceleration lane, speed up to match freeway traffic.
• Merge: smoothly and gradually, to the centre of the nearest freeway lane. Then cancel your signal.

• Traffic check: keep checking all around you, and look in your mirrors every 5 to 10 seconds.
• Speed: don't exceed the limit or drive unreasonably slowly. Keep a steady speed, and look 12 to 15 seconds ahead for hazards you can avoid by changing speed.
• Space: keep at least two to three seconds behind the vehicle ahead, and more if someone is following you too closely (or change lanes). Keep space on both sides, stay out of blind spots, and avoid driving behind large vehicles that block your view.

• Traffic check: before moving into the exit lane, look left and right and check your mirrors. If there's a lane on your right, such as an acceleration lane or a paved shoulder, check your right blind spot too.
• Signal: turn it on before you reach the exit lane.
• Exit lane: move in at the start of the lane, smoothly and gradually, and stay inside the markings. With two or more exit lanes, don't cross solid lines to change lanes.
• Speed: don't slow down until you're completely in the exit lane, then slow gradually. Take the ramp's curve slowly enough that nothing in the car is pushed around.
• Space and signal: keep two to three seconds behind the vehicle ahead, and cancel your signal once you're on the ramp.

• Approach: check traffic (mirrors, and your blind spot if you change lanes), move into the far left or far right lane, signal before slowing (but after any driveways where drivers are waiting), slow steadily, keep two to three seconds of following distance.
• If you stop: stop completely without rolling, leave room to pull around the vehicle ahead, stop at the stop line (or the crosswalk, sidewalk edge or intersection edge), keep your wheels straight while waiting to turn left.
• The turn: look left, ahead and right just before entering, keep both hands on the wheel, don't shift gears mid-turn, move off within four to five seconds when it's clear, turn without crossing lane markings or curbs.
• After: end up in the matching lane, check your mirrors, accelerate smoothly back to traffic speed.

• Approach: check traffic, slow steadily (don't coast with the clutch down), keep two to three seconds of following distance.
• The stop: stop completely without rolling, leave room to pull around the vehicle ahead, stop at the stop line or its fallback.
• Through: look left, ahead and right before entering, keep both hands on the wheel, don't shift mid-intersection, move off within four to five seconds, check your mirrors and return to traffic speed.

• Approach: look left and right; keep your speed unless traffic might cross in front of you, in which case slow or cover the brake; keep your following distance.
• Through: don't cross lane markings or change lanes in the intersection; if your lane is blocked, slow or stop rather than going around. Both hands on the wheel, no gear changes, and check your mirrors again if you slowed.

• Watch ahead, your mirrors and your blind spot; if there's another lane beyond, check it too. Signal when there's space (earlier in heavy traffic), check your blind spot once more, match the speed of the new lane, move smoothly into its centre with both hands on the wheel, then cancel your signal.

• Judge the safe speed from signs, the curve's shape and the type of road. Slow down before the curve so you don't brake in it, and be at the safe speed by 30 metres into it. Go slower in a blind curve. Keep a steady speed, don't shift gears, look across or around the curve to stay centred, and accelerate near the end.

• Watch entrances, construction sites and pedestrian and railway crossings; check your mirrors every 5 to 10 seconds; drive in the safest lane (usually the curb lane); look 12 to 15 seconds ahead; keep two to three seconds of space and stay out of blind spots; when stopped behind a vehicle, leave enough room to see its rear wheels.

No. The only written (knowledge) test is the one you pass for your G1. To get your full G licence you pass the G road test, also called the G2 exit test.

After at least 12 months with your G2 licence. You have five years from when you start graduated licensing to finish it.

Yes. It includes an expressway section: merging on, driving along and exiting. Before the test you complete and sign a Declaration of Highway Driving Experience. If you don't have enough highway experience, the examiner must declare the test out of order and cancel it, and you lose 50% of the fee.

Not at full-time DriveTest centres and temporary road test locations, for now. The G test there doesn't include parallel parking, roadside stops, three-point turns or residential driving, because the G2 test already covers them. Part-time Travel Point locations still give the standard G road test.

DriveTest lists the G road test at $91.25 (checked October 29, 2026). If you cancel or reschedule with less than 48 hours' notice, or don't show up, you lose the prepaid fee.

You must wait at least 10 days between road tests. As a G2 driver, plan another way home in case you fail, since you may not be qualified to drive alone.