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How hard is Saskatchewan’s driving test?

Saskatchewan makes driver education mandatory for everyone, then splits the written test in two so a strong half cannot rescue a weak one. Training that everyone must take does not shorten the roughly twenty-seven month path, which still ranks among the country's safer roads.

2nd
Test difficulty of 13
How hard the written test is to pass
6th
Licensing journey of 13
How long and involved the road to a full licence is
4th
Road safety of 13
How safe the province’s roads are
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Source: Drive IQ Canada Driving Index. Road-safety data: Transport Canada CMVTCS 2023.

The test

Saskatchewan's SGI test comes in two separately graded parts, driving situations and rules of the road, then sign identification, each cleared on its own. SGI publishes no official pass mark, though study sites put it around 80 percent. The test is written in person at an issuing office, not online, and you may write only once per day.

Path to a full licence

You start the Learner stage at 16, or 15 through the High School Driver Education Program, and the fastest route still takes about 27 months, with only one road test. Like Quebec, Saskatchewan requires driver training of everyone, so the high-school course is not a shortcut, it only lets you start a year earlier and finish around 17. Quicker than Quebec's marathon but behind Ontario's 20.

On the roads

Saskatchewan records 5.9 road deaths for every billion kilometres driven, above the national rate of 4.5, yet still ranks fourth of the thirteen jurisdictions for safety. Long rural highways, distance, and hard winters carry much of the risk. Police report a very high 395 impaired-driving incidents per 100,000, among the worst of any province, though enforcement shapes that figure.

Saskatchewan5.9 deaths5th of 13 safest05101520← betterworse →Road deaths per billion vehicle-kilometres

Source: Transport Canada CMVTCS 2023 (fatalities per billion vehicle-km).

The laws

Every graduated-licence driver, Learner through Novice 2, must keep a zero blood-alcohol level. A first handheld-phone offence is steep here: a 580 dollar fine and four demerit points. Despite the winters, SGI recommends winter tires but does not mandate them.

Commercial licences

Saskatchewan introduced 121.5 hours of Mandatory Entry-Level Training for the Class 1 licence in 2019, the year after the Humboldt Broncos crash in the province reshaped the national conversation on truck-driver training. The safety case is stark: commercial vehicles are involved in about one in five road deaths across Canada, and in Saskatchewan roughly nine in ten collisions happen on rural roads. Class 1 covers tractor-trailers and adds a separate air-brake exam, tested apart from the Class 5 licence this page prepares you for.

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Nearby in the index

Alberta
8th of 13 on road safety · 3rd-hardest test
Manitoba
3rd of 13 on road safety · 5th-hardest test
Northwest Territories
11th of 13 on road safety · 2nd-hardest test
Ontario
2nd of 13 on road safety · 2nd-hardest test
Nova Scotia
6th of 13 on road safety · 2nd-hardest test
Quebec
1st of 13 on road safety · 4th-hardest test

Sources

Test specifications last verified July 2026.

Always confirm current rules with SGI before you book.

Drive IQ Canada is an independent study tool, not affiliated with the MTO, SAAQ, ICBC, SGI, MPI, or any provincial licensing authority. Road-safety data is from Transport Canada (2023) and Statistics Canada (2024).

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How hard is Saskatchewan’s driving test? (2026)