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Ontario MTO (Drive Test) Road Test Success Rates

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Based on data from the provincial Ministry of Transportation, the list below shows the overall pass rates for general driver road tests conducted in Ontario from 2006 to January 21, 2013.

1. Espanola … 90.2% pass rate (out of 2,774 road tests)
2. Kapuskasing … 90.2% (1,497)
3. Sault Ste. Marie … 90.1% (6,464)
4. Sudbury … 87.2% (11,343)
5. Winchester … 85.8% (4,599)
6. Brockville … 85% (4,500)
7. Timmins … 84.4% (4,336)
8. Kirkland Lake … 83.5% (758)
9. Cornwall … 81.9% (7,662)
10. Kenora … 81.6% (1,531)
11. Belleville … 81.5% (12,887)
12. Sarnia … 80.9% (10,204)
13. Thunder Bay … 80.8% (9,860)
14. North Bay … 78.9% (6,225)
15. Kingston … 78.1% (15,281)
16. Barrie … 77.8% (24,579)
17. Bancroft … 77.1% (3,360)
18. Orillia … 77.1% (11,797)
19. Hawkesbury … 76.6% (5,123)
20. Dryden … 76.6% (1,845)
21. Pembroke … 76.5% (3,960)
22. Chatham … 76% (11,303)
23. Fort Frances … 75.6% (1,398)
24. Peterborough … 75.5% (12,616)
25. Woodstock … 74.4% (7,900).

The above 25 driver testing locations represent 18.3% of the total provincial road tests for Ontario.
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Locations Close to Toronto with High Pass Rates

Ontario residents can take their driver road test anywhere they want in the province. So, many driving students shop around for the testing location where they are most likely to succeed.

This loophole allows a teenager who lives in a Toronto suburb with a high driver test failure rates to choose to try for their driver’s licence in a nearby city with a much higher driver pass rate. For example, Toronto is about an hour drive from Barrie where the driver test pass rate is over 50% higher.

1. Barrie (90 kilometres or 50 miles from Toronto) … 77.8% pass rate
2. Orillia (134 kilometres or 83 miles from Toronto) … 77.1%
3. Brantford (100 kilometres or 62 miles from Toronto) … 73.1%
4. Burlington (62 kilometres or 39 miles from Toronto) … 72.8%
5. Guelph (96 kilometres or 59 miles from Toronto) … 71.5%
6. Lindsay (131 kilometres or 81 miles from Toronto) … 69.5%
7. Oshawa Centre (58 kilometres or 36 miles from Toronto) … 67.9%
8. Kitchener (105 kilometres or 65 miles from Toronto) … 67.7%
9. Orangeville (84 kilometres or 52 miles from Toronto) … 66.2%
10. Hamilton (70 kilometres or 43 miles from Toronto) … 64.6%
11. St. Catharines (110 kilometres or 68 miles from Toronto) … 64.2%
12. Aurora (48 kilometres or 30 miles from Toronto) … 63.5%.
 
Jason_ said:
Locations Close to Toronto with High Pass Rates

Ontario residents can take their driver road test anywhere they want in the province. So, many driving students shop around for the testing location where they are most likely to succeed.

This loophole allows a teenager who lives in a Toronto suburb with a high driver test failure rates to choose to try for their driver’s licence in a nearby city with a much higher driver pass rate. For example, Toronto is about an hour drive from Barrie where the driver test pass rate is over 50% higher.

1. Barrie (90 kilometres or 50 miles from Toronto) … 77.8% pass rate
2. Orillia (134 kilometres or 83 miles from Toronto) … 77.1%
3. Brantford (100 kilometres or 62 miles from Toronto) … 73.1%
4. Burlington (62 kilometres or 39 miles from Toronto) … 72.8%
5. Guelph (96 kilometres or 59 miles from Toronto) … 71.5%
6. Lindsay (131 kilometres or 81 miles from Toronto) … 69.5%
7. Oshawa Centre (58 kilometres or 36 miles from Toronto) … 67.9%
8. Kitchener (105 kilometres or 65 miles from Toronto) … 67.7%
9. Orangeville (84 kilometres or 52 miles from Toronto) … 66.2%
10. Hamilton (70 kilometres or 43 miles from Toronto) … 64.6%
11. St. Catharines (110 kilometres or 68 miles from Toronto) … 64.2%
12. Aurora (48 kilometres or 30 miles from Toronto) … 63.5%.
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OR people can just learn to drive better, then it won't make a difference where you take your test. Drive well... pass the test! What a concept!!
 
Not really surprising.. The closer you get to Toronto the higher the population will be of folks who didn't grow up in an automobile culture, this combined with living in a city where it is possible to get around without a car. The farther north you go, the more you "need" a vehicle and generally the longer people in the area have been driving for and teaching each other not to suck at driving.

So what ends up happening is that these folks don't get their license until they're already well into adulthood and have nothing but endless fear reactions. Driving 20 km on a highway on-ramp etc.

I wish we could be road tested every year, I'd be willing to do so if it means we could get a whole bunch of these jokes off the road.
 
Ed In Mississauga said:
OR people can just learn to drive better, then it won't make a difference where you take your test. Drive well... pass the test! What a concept!!
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This is scary ****. If you head over to any other major toronto forums like redflagdeals.. you'll see a ton of threads of people asking where is the easiest location to pass their driving test.

matthew said:
http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2010/04/09/testing_drivers_on_roads_less_travelled.html
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and it's even scarier when you read this:

But the Ministry of Transportation sees nothing wrong with what these driving schools are doing.
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The MTO is not interested in solving problems.
When you stand back and look at it you just have to follow the money.
Bad drivers = more cash for MTO retaking test = more Police to keep the roads safe = higher insurance rates (read more profits for insurance companies) = car repairs and sales = more Government Employees for some study or new division.

Case in point - Our bike rates keep increasing yet a 16 year old can walk in to the MTO do a easy written test then proceed across the street and buy a Hyabusa and be on the road next to you. It's actually a very easy problem to solve yet they don't. So is it really about safety or $afety?
 
I live in St. Marys, small town between London and Stratford, well last year I booked my M1 exit in Clinton, which is outside Goderich, anyways, the group of us doing the bike test had to wait about 45 minutes for the instructor because people were coming in by the car load, no joke, about 50 of them, not that it matters, but they were all, how do I say it, probably not from Canada originally, and they were being brought in by multiple vans from a specific drivers education company from Toronto. Once our tester made it over to us he said it is like that every single day. Because there is so little traffic and the closest thing to a highway is the 80 km/hr road leading into and out of town. Funny thing was as we were taking our turn with the pylons a lady and tester got into her test car and she drove right over all of our pylons and just kept going and when she came back our tester said very sarcastically how did you do? Oh great I passed, and he just shook his head.
 
I passed both road tests (G1X, G2X) in Aurora, first try both times. Feel much better now :D
 
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I live in St. Marys, small town between London and Stratford, well last year I booked my M1 exit in Clinton, which is outside Goderich, anyways, the group of us doing the bike test had to wait about 45 minutes for the instructor because people were coming in by the car load, no joke, about 50 of them, not that it matters, but they were all, how do I say it, probably not from Canada originally, and they were being brought in by multiple vans from a specific drivers education company from Toronto. Once our tester made it over to us he said it is like that every single day. Because there is so little traffic and the closest thing to a highway is the 80 km/hr road leading into and out of town. Funny thing was as we were taking our turn with the pylons a lady and tester got into her test car and she drove right over all of our pylons and just kept going and when she came back our tester said very sarcastically how did you do? Oh great I passed, and he just shook his head.
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The MTO gets their dough no matter where you go.
The MTO only cares about getting paid, what happens after is not their problem. It's your problem and the insurance co.
 
Sunspark said:
I wish we could be road tested every year, I'd be willing to do so if it means we could get a whole bunch of these jokes off the road.
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I think something like this is along the right lines. We need better driver education and having to be retested every year or two is not a bad idea.
 
mroberto said:
I think something like this is along the right lines. We need better driver education and having to be retested every year or two is not a bad idea.
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Imo this would create a lot of financial stress on people as well as scheduling problems. Why not every 5 years when you renew?
 
Sorry I don't think it's as simple as just the roads around where the test is. The examiners make all the difference. You can read the M2X thread about the examiners at Downsview, like people being completely unable to understand their accents because english isn't their first language. I took my M2X in Aurora because I knew they had good examiners.
 
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7. Oshawa Centre (58 kilometres or 36 miles from Toronto) … 67.9%
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Oshawa is a tough route, it has a lot of traffic and the HWY section is so short that is difficult to do a lane change and get back to the exiting lane on time to exit, I remember that a bus kind of cut my flow to change lanes and I end up losing marks for going to slow on the HWy (lol that is a first) since i was waiting for the bus to pass me so i could switch lanes. I can see a new rider (or newer) get intimidated by having to make that many lane changes on that kind of bumper to bumper traffic shenanigans, easy to make a mistake or many.

I mean that is real life, but no one really rides like it is required for the test
 
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I have a 99.9% pass rate. Only failures have been riders going through red lights.
 
Emefef said:
I have a 99.9% pass rate. Only failures have been riders going through red lights.
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I believe these stats are for cars not motorcycle's.

Rule of thumb back home in England was only 50% of teenage boys passed their test on the first try.

I was floored when i took my test over here, couldn't believe how easy it was, 10 minutes and i had my licence.
 
Jayv said:
I believe these stats are for cars not motorcycle's.
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of course. good point. I wonder if the stats are readily available by class.
 
Macs said:
Imo this would create a lot of financial stress on people as well as scheduling problems. Why not every 5 years when you renew?
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Ok, 10% discount if you vote in a Federal election, 10% if you vote in a Provincial election and another 10% discount if you vote in the municipal election.
 
Sunspark said:
Ok, 10% discount if you vote in a Federal election, 10% if you vote in a Provincial election and another 10% discount if you vote in the municipal election.
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Privacy law violation
 
Macs said:
Privacy law violation
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No it isn't. You have to sign a document showing that you showed up and took a ballot to vote for all 3 levels of government. Exercising your right to vote is something to be proud of.

It is the same as filing your tax return federally and agreeing to have your name on the electors roll.

If you don't agree, you can still vote but you have to show I.D. So along those lines, no discount on the fees if you want to keep secret that you demonstrated civic responsibility.
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