Ontario official handbook
Ontario Driver's Handbook 2026
The official Driver's Handbook that Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) publishes for this test, 187 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Edition
- Captured 2026-07-30(our capture date, the agency states none)
- Pages
- 187
- Published by
- Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)
The Ministry of Transportation publishes this handbook as a web document only, with no official PDF. This file is that official page saved as a PDF on the capture date, so the ministry's own text is preserved but the page numbering and the capture date are ours. Read the live version for the authoritative text.
Read the handbook
Opens on the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
The Official MTO Driver's Handbook · 187 pages, 2.1 MB
All documents are hosted by Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO), not by us. Visit the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) handbook page.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)Not printed by the agency
Official source: Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)- Last checked
- Jul 31, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Ontario handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why the Ontario handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the G1 knowledge test comes from what Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) publishes in this handbook. Our 306 practice questions for Ontario are written from it too, so reading it once and then testing yourself is faster than doing either alone.
Read it end to end once, then use practice questions to find the parts you have not absorbed.
What the Ontario handbook covers
These 187 pages are the whole of what the test can draw on. Reading the list below is a quick way to find the parts you have not looked at yet.
- Getting your licence and the graduated licensing stages
- Traffic signs, signals and pavement markings
- Rules of the road, right of way and intersections
- Speed limits and following distance
- Turning, passing, lane changes and merging
- Parking rules and prohibited distances
- Sharing the road with cyclists, pedestrians and large vehicles
- School buses and emergency vehicles
- Impaired driving and the penalties that follow
- Winter, night and poor-visibility driving
- Collisions, breakdowns and what the law requires of you
Ontario test facts
Every figure here is Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)'s own for the G1 knowledge test, not a national average. Provinces genuinely differ, and studying another province's number is a common way to fail.
- Total questions
- 40 multiple-choice (20 signs + 20 rules)
- Pass mark
- 80% in each section (16 of 20 each)
- Time limit
- No published time limit
- Minimum age
- 16
- Languages
- 32 languages on the computer test, including English and French; verbal test or interpreter available
- Administered by
- DriveTest on behalf of MTO
- Retake waiting period
- No waiting period published; C$16 per extra attempt