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G2 vs G road test

The G2 road test is a city test that lets you drive alone. The G road test, 12 months later, adds expressway driving and gets you a full licence. Here’s what’s different, from Ontario’s own pages and the MTO handbook.

Updated October 29, 2026 · By the G2 Test team

The two road tests side by side

	G2 road test	G road test
What it gets you	A G2 licence: you can drive alone	A full G licence
When	12 months after your G1 (8 with BDE)	12 months after your G2
Length	About 20 minutes	About 30 minutes
Roads	City and residential streets, no highways	Major roads and expressways
What’s marked	Left and right turns, stop intersections, through intersections, lane changes, curves, business areas, residential streets, roadside stop, parallel parking and three-point turn	Left and right turns, stop intersections, through intersections, lane changes, curves, business areas and freeway driving
Left out	Highway and expressway driving	At full-time centres, parallel parking, roadside stops, three-point turns and driving in residential neighbourhoods, for now (travel points still test them)
Highway declaration	No	Yes: 5 drives in the last 3 months on a road signed 80 km/h or more, or you lose 50% of the fee
Fee	$53.75 (your first is in the G1 package)	$91.25
Where	Every DriveTest centre and travel point (92)	55 of 56 full-time centres and 9 travel points

From ontario.ca’s new drivers page and the handbook’s road test chapter, checked October 29, 2026; centre counts from DriveTest’s centre list.

Why the names get mixed up

Ontario’s new drivers page calls them the G2 road test and the G road test, after the licence each one gets you. The MTO handbook’s road test chapter names them by level instead, and says passing the “Level Two (G2) road test gives you full Class G driving privileges”. That Level Two test is the one this site calls the G road test. If a guide says the G2 test has a highway section, it means the G.

Getting ready for each

G2: practise the city manoeuvres, especially the ones the G test drops, and see the G2 road test checklist.
G: log your 5 highway drives in the 3 months before the test, then see the G road test guide.
Either: check which tests your DriveTest centre gives before you book. Not every centre gives the G.

Sources, checked October 29, 2026: ontario.ca new drivers, MTO handbook road test chapter, DriveTest road tests.

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Questions people ask

+Is the G test harder than the G2?

It’s different rather than a longer version of the same thing: about 30 minutes instead of 20, with expressway merging, driving and exiting. At full-time centres it leaves out parallel parking, roadside stops, three-point turns and driving in residential neighbourhoods, which the G2 test already covered.

+Can I take the G test at a travel point?

At 9 of the 36 travel points. Those still give the standard test, with parallel parking, roadside stops, three-point turns and driving in residential neighbourhoods. Each centre page shows which tests it gives.

+Do I sign a highway declaration for the G2 test?

No. The declaration of highway driving experience comes before the expressway part of the G test.