Methodology
How this site is made, in plain terms
This page exists so the restraint on the rest of the site can be checked rather than taken on trust.
How a question becomes a published question
Five steps, in this order, and a question that fails any of them does not reach the site.
The source
A rule is read from the statute that sets it, or from the one provincial handbook published under an open licence. Nothing is written from another practice site.
The draft
The question is written in our own words, with four options where the wrong ones are wrong for a reason rather than for padding, and one plain explanation of why the right answer is right.
The citation
The authority goes on the question, with the section where the source gives one. A question with no citation cannot be stored in the bank, because the type it is stored as does not allow it.
The review
The question is read back against the source, and against the rest of the bank, so two questions cannot teach opposite things. That check has already caught one pair that did.
The build check
The build fails on a duplicate question, a missing explanation, a missing citation, a sign reference with no drawing behind it, or a figure with no source. These are tests rather than intentions.
Where the source material comes from
Every question here is written from scratch. None of it is copied from an official exam, and none of it is an imitation of one. The real question banks belong to the provinces and to the contractors that run their testing, and copying them would be both illegal and useless: memorizing leaked questions does not teach anybody to drive.
Alberta
The Alberta Driver's Guide is published under the Open Government Licence for Alberta, which allows reuse including commercial reuse with attribution. It is the only openly licensed driver handbook in the country, so the Alberta questions are written from the current edition and cite it directly.
Ontario
The ministry handbook is Crown copyright and may not be reproduced commercially, so we do not use its text. Ontario law is a different matter: statutes and regulations may be reproduced, so Ontario questions are grounded in the Highway Traffic Act and cite the section they come from.
British Columbia
The ICBC learner materials are all rights reserved, so they are read for understanding and never used as source text. Questions rest on the Motor Vehicle Act and on road facts that are true everywhere.
Quebec
The SAAQ manual is the most restrictive of the four and is reference only. Questions rest on the Highway Safety Code.
Road sign artwork is drawn by us against the published sign specifications. No official artwork is reproduced, and no drawing on this site carries a watermark.
How the data is sourced
Every figure on the site is attached to a named record and the date we last read the figure off it. If a record publishes a range rather than a single number, we carry the range and say which end any single value takes. If we do not have a number, the sentence is written without one instead of being filled with an estimate.
Two kinds of record feed the data pages. The first is material that is already public: a freedom of information release covered by a news organization, an auditor general report, a statistics page published by the licensing body. The second is our own freedom of information requests, filed once a year, which ask for the same fields again so the figures stop ageing in place.
Nothing is scraped. Test booking systems are not a data source here. They belong to the licensing bodies and their contractors, they actively block automated access, and the practice of hammering them for appointments is something we report on rather than take part in.
What this browser keeps
Nothing you answer is sent anywhere. Everything below is written by this site into your own browser, and the button underneath removes all of it.
| What | Where | For how long | How to clear it |
|---|---|---|---|
| The questions you answered wrong | This browser, in local storage | Until you clear it | The button below, or clearing your browser data |
| Your last result for each run | This browser, in local storage | Until you clear it | The button below, or clearing your browser data |
| How many questions you have answered on each subject | This browser, in local storage | Until you clear it | The button below, or clearing your browser data |
| What you last typed into a tool | This browser, in local storage | Until you clear it | The button below, or clearing your browser data |
| Your light or dark choice | This browser, in local storage | Until you clear it | The button below, or clearing your browser data |
This removes the run history, the questions you missed and any tool inputs saved here.
There is no server side record of any of it. No account exists to attach it to, and no request carrying your answers leaves the page.
What we will not do
These are build rules rather than promises. The markup can be checked against every one of them, which is the only version of this statement worth printing.
- No paywall. No part of a test, a result or a review is held back for payment.
- No session replay, and nothing that records your keystrokes or where you move the pointer.
- No selling or sharing of what you answer, which never leaves your browser to begin with.
- No account, no email address, no sign up wall.
- No paid plan, and nothing held back until you pay, because there is nothing to buy.
- No copied exam content, no copied artwork, and no scraped booking system.
Corrections
Licensing rules change, and a fee or a waiting period can move without an announcement anybody notices. Each province is re checked against its own licensing body, and the verified date on the page is the proof of when that last happened.
If something here is wrong, it gets corrected and the date moves with it. Nothing is quietly edited to look as though it was always right. An old date on a page is a signal to you rather than something to hide.
To report an error, say which page it is on, what the page says and what the licensing body says, with a link to the page you read it on. That is enough to check it against the source and fix it. Who writes and checks this site.
Every authority this site cites
39 records, gathered from the data layer rather than listed by hand, each with the date it was last read.
Ontario Ministry of Transportation, G1 licensing rules and DriveTest fee schedule
Verified 2026-08-27
DriveTest, Knowledge Tests (Serco Canada Inc., the ministry appointed driver examination provider)
Verified 2026-08-28
Fees read from the DriveTest fee list on the same date.
DriveTest, Commercial Vehicles licence requirements
Verified 2026-08-28
Fees read from the DriveTest fee list on the same date.
DriveTest, Fees for Licences and Tests
Verified 2026-08-28
Ontario Ministry of Transportation, Get a bus driver licence
Verified 2026-08-28
Read alongside the DriveTest commercial page, which words the same requirement differently.
ICBC published graduated licensing and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
ICBC, Before you take your knowledge test (form MV2654)
Verified 2026-08-28
Fees read from the ICBC fee list on the same date.
ICBC, How to get your Class 4 licence (form MV2506)
Verified 2026-08-28
Question count and pass mark read from the ICBC knowledge test sheet, fees from the ICBC fee list.
Government of Alberta published Class 7 licensing and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
Government of Alberta, Get a Class 6 motorcycle driver licence
Verified 2026-08-28
Question count and pass mark read from the Alberta driver knowledge test page on the same date.
Government of Alberta, Driver knowledge test
Verified 2026-08-28
Government of Alberta, Obtaining a commercial licence
Verified 2026-08-28
Question count and pass mark read from the Alberta driver knowledge test page on the same date, and the ride for hire rule from the Alberta ride for hire services page.
SAAQ published licensing, driving course and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
SAAQ, Obtaining a Motorcycle Driver's Licence (Classes 6A, 6B and 6C)
Verified 2026-08-28
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.
SAAQ, Heavy Vehicle Driver's Licence (Class 1)
Verified 2026-08-28
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.
SAAQ, Licence to Drive a Bus With a Seating Capacity of More Than 24 Passengers (Class 2)
Verified 2026-08-28
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.
SAAQ, Truck Driver's Licence (Class 3)
Verified 2026-08-28
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.
SAAQ, Minibuses and Small Buses With a Seating Capacity of 24 or Fewer Passengers (Class 4B)
Verified 2026-08-28
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.
SAAQ, Taxi and Automobile Treated as a Taxi
Verified 2026-08-28
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.
CBC News freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)
Verified 2026-08-27
Covers the 2022 data year.
ICBC published road test statistics
Verified 2026-08-27
Alberta Driver's Guide to Operation, Safety and Licensing, open.alberta.ca, May 2026 edition
Verified 2026-08-27
Published under the Open Government Licence for Alberta, which permits commercial reuse with attribution.
Manitoba Public Insurance, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
Service New Brunswick, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
the Motor Registration Division of Service NL, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
Road Licensing and Safety at the NWT Department of Infrastructure, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
the Registry of Motor Vehicles at Access Nova Scotia, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
the Motor Vehicles Division of the Nunavut Department of Economic Development and Transportation, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
the Highway Safety Division of the PEI Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
Saskatchewan Government Insurance, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
the Motor Vehicles branch of Yukon Highways and Public Works, published driver licensing information
Verified 2026-08-27
Provincial and territorial licensing authorities across Canada
Verified 2026-08-27
Each province and territory issues its own driver licence. There is no federal driving test.
Published provincial knowledge test outcome reporting
Verified 2026-08-27
Reported as roughly 40 percent of knowledge test attempts ending in a fail. Re-check against the issuing authority before using it as a headline claim.
Ontario Ministry of Transportation, G1 licensing rules and DriveTest fee schedule
Verified 2026-08-27
Reported as a range of roughly 20 to 24 months. The value carries the upper end of that range.
Office of the Auditor General of Ontario, value for money audit of DriveTest (2023)
Verified 2026-08-27
Figures as published in the audit, with a follow up review published in 2025.
ICBC published road test statistics
Verified 2026-08-27
Published as a range of roughly 50 to 58 percent. The value carries the upper end of that range.
ICBC per office road test pass rates released under freedom of information
Verified 2026-08-27
Reported as above 74 percent. The value carries the stated floor, not an exact figure. Covers data years 2018 to 2022.
Government of Alberta published Class 7 licensing and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
Registry agents set their own service charge, so the amount varies a little by office.
Computed by us from the CBC freedom of information release of Ontario DriveTest results (2022 data)
Verified 2026-08-27
Median and volume weighted figures are our own arithmetic over the per centre rows in that release, not numbers the release states.
Independence
DriveTest Canada is not a licensing body, not a driving school and not connected to any provincial ministry, to DriveTest, to ICBC or to the SAAQ. Nothing here is legal advice, and the licensing body in your province has the final word on any rule, fee or waiting period.
Nobody pays to appear on this site, there is no affiliate link on any page, and no part of the practice engine changes based on who is reading it. Where the rules are set by law, the pages cite the law so you can read it yourself.