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With a G1, you can only drive with people who have had a licence for seveal years, and you can't even drive at certain hours of the day. You almost certainly can't rent a car given that, and I'm not sure why you would buy one before even being able to really drive one legally.
learning to drive in Ontario is a cashgrab. you have greedy driving instructors and drive test centres failing students to make more money off them redoing tests.
Sounds like you just suck at driving, Meester-Chung.
Yeah. Although I think it can go both ways sometimes. My brother booked his G2 exit recently having practically no actual driving experience. I was so positive he wouldn't pass but sure enough...
Sounds like you just suck at driving, Meester-Chung.
Fail rates vary for driver test centres
Company that runs Ontario’s driver exam centres has imposed pass-fail “norms” that differ from location to location.
About half of the drivers who take their road tests in busy Brampton fail. In sleepy Kenora, the failure rate is lower than 20 per cent.
As Ontario’s driving instructors have long known, some examination centres fail a far higher percentage of test-takers than others. Now the company that runs driver testing for the province has instituted pass-fail “norms” for each DriveTest centre based on their widely varying past results.
At the Brampton centre, for example, examiners who conduct the road test required to obtain a G2 license have been given a failure-rate norm of 53 per cent, the highest in Ontario. Conversely, examiners in Oshawa, have been given a norm of 36 per cent. Kenora received the lowest norm, 7 per cent.
The norms, obtained via freedom of information request, vary even within the GTA. The failure-rate norm is 52 per cent in Downsview, 43 per cent in Oakville, 40 per cent in Aurora, and 36 per cent in Burlington. Norms are lower for locations within easy driving distance, such as Orillia’s 26 per cent.
Examiners whose pass-fail rates deviate more than 15 percentage points from a norm in any month are monitored to ensure they are following standard procedures. But the norms, approved by the provincial government, are not quotas. If the examiners are found to be following protocol, and their pass-fail rates are abnormally high or low because of a random streak of good or bad drivers, they are not disciplined.
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