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Longer reads on the parts of getting an Ontario licence that the handbook spreads across several pages: what test day actually looks like, how long the road from G1 to a full G takes and what it costs, and the rules learners most often mix up. Every section links to the official page it is written from.

  1. G1 test day: what to bring, what happens, and what you leave withWhere the Ontario G1 knowledge test is taken and whether you need to book, the documents and fee to bring, the vision test, what the knowledge test covers and what the ministry does not publish about it, and the rules that apply from the moment you pass.Published October 19, 2026
  2. From G1 to G2 to a full G: the timeline, the rules at each stage, and what it costsHow long Ontario’s graduated licensing takes at the fastest and the slowest, what you may and may not do with a G1 and then a G2, how the two road tests are booked and what happens when you fail one, what each step costs, and how a licence from elsewhere shortens the road.Published October 19, 2026
  3. The G1 rules people mix up: parking distances, pedestrian crossovers and demerit pointsA crossover is not a crossing, nine metres is not fifteen, and a novice driver is suspended at nine points where a full licence is suspended at fifteen. The pairs of rules the knowledge test uses to tell whether you really know them, side by side.Published October 19, 2026

Written from the official pages linked under each section, in our own words. Fees, dates and penalties change — confirm them on ontario.ca or with DriveTest before you rely on them.