This post is intended for Kitchener inhabitants.
If you need to go for your G driving test, and can avoid the Kitchener Driving Test Centre, please do so. You will be doing yourself a big favour. At some point during your test, you’ll have to merge on the highway, but the ramp is so short, that it’s very hard to reach 90 km/h before merging while checking your mirrors, and blind spot at the same time.
I passed my G test today, but because I could get my car speed up to only 85 km/h, it was written down as a point against me.
One more thing, if you can do your test in a car equipped with an automatic transmission, do so. I did my test in my car, which is equipped with a standard transmission, and there were times when I was judged to have taken too long to put my hand back on the steering wheel after having shifted gears.
To sum up, I was judged to have made 30 errors, which is the limit for passing. I don’t think that some of the errors attributed to me were justified. But, I don’t care anymore. I passed the test. It does not matter if a team wins 10-0 or 1-0: winning is winning.
Weird thing, this driving test. I had a go at the driving licence 3 weeks ago and missed it because of a stop. Too bad, nothing else went wrong but the guy intervened and here I am as a cyclist, commuter and walker for another 6 months to 1 year. It takes quite a long time to get a licence here in France!
On the bright side, winter is not too bad in France. Here, it was -6º this morning, and we’re not in Winter yet
. And you are saving a lot of money, and keeping yourself in a good shape, which I’m not doing 
I know this is an old post, but any KW specific tips? My test is Friday. I’d say I’m a really good driver but I’m 22 and have 4 years of bad habits. The only concerns I have are if any tiny bit of speeding, such as 55 in a 50 is a fail, and what flexibility there is to mess up on parallel parking. I do fine about 4/5ths of the time.
It’s probably all over-hyping. It’s also way too easy to end up going 100 in a 90 in a G35.
First, make sure that you get to 50 km/h once you leave the parking lot as the speed limit will be 50 km/h. But, when you get in the residential areas close to school make sure you drive accordingly. Always move your head around like a maniac. When going on the highway, make sure you get to 90 km/h before you merge. This should not be a problem if you are in a G35
As far as parallel parking is concerned, it’s way way easier than where I come from. They are not allowed to make you park in space less than the equivalent of 3 cars, plus you are allowed to adjust. In Mauritius, you have one car space, that’s it; and you are not allowed to adjust.
I don’t think they will fail you if you go up to 55 km/h, as long as you don’t stay at 55 km/h.
Good luck!
Thanks a lot! Just thought I’d post and say I passed with flying colours.
Thanks again for replying to a very old post. =)
Have a good one.
Congratulations! I did not want to put too much pressure in telling you that the person I had was a bad bad one. I just told you what you needed to hear
Hi there:
Is it possible for you to describe the route that you took for your G-test? (If you still remember). I’ll really appreciate it. The more specific the better. I live in Waterloo, but taking my test in Kitchener. I’m not familiar with the streets at all (i’m like in school 24/7), so it’d be nice to go prepared.
hello there. thank you for great article. have a great day everyone!
When you get out of the parking lot, you will probably turn left on Ottawa to go to the express way. Make sure you speed up to 50 km/h. You may be nervous and forget that the speed limit. You’ll get on the express way and head to the Victoria exist, turn right, then right again on Frederick. Then you’ll take the ramp to get on the express way again. This is the short ramp. Also make sure you follow the speed limit in the residential areas. Good Luck!
Patrick, I will be following your above route for my upcoming G test in kitchener. Are there any other routes? Are there any more details? I’m fairly experience but I’ve picked up some terrible habits. Your help will save me!
Eddie
I’m not aware of other routes. As far as highway driving is concerned, that’s probably the only option they have since they want to be as close to the test centre as possible. For city driving, things can change depending on road construction I guess. It’s true that being experience can cause some problems as one tends to pick up bad driving habits. Keep moving your head around like a maniac. Better over do it than under do it. Remember to speed up to the speed limit when you get out of the parking lot. It’s very easy to forget this because of stress. Take it easy. The worst thing that can happen is you have to take the test again. It’s not like you fail a universtiy course and this stays on your transcript. And make sure you get lots of sleep the night before. It can be difficult to sleep but try. The more sleep you have, the more relax you’ll be and the more sharp you’ll be. Good Luck!
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Hi,
My road test for full G license will on July 15th in Kitchener. Although I have been driving for 3 yrs I don’t go to Kitchener that much so not familiar there at all. I know this post started a while back. Did anyone take G-test in Kitchener recently? Pls. let me know your experience. I am pretty confident on my driving overall but I am concern the merging and exiting to the highway. Also the other I am worried is the “rear in” parking and “parallel” parking.
How did it go?! Any tips/route possibilities??
Taking my test tomorrow anything is helpful – nervous!
Sorry Lisa. I did not have access to my e-mail yesterday.
I passed my G test in Kitchener just four days ago. The test lasts about 30 minutes or so. The test includes three areas, residential, business and highway. You will start out in the business area, where the speed limit is 50km. Be careful with the speed limit. Then you will enter highway 7 for your highway portion of the test. The speed limit on the highway is 90KM. Be sure you speed up when you merge onto highway lane. Plus, be sure to merge rightaway, I think for some reason, KW highways don’t always have merge signs. You will be asked to change lanes on highway, after that you will be asked to exit highway and into another business area. In the business area, you will need to turn your head like crazy to let the examiner know you are checking. You really need to do that since examiner can deduct a lot of marks right here. Then you would get onto highway 7 again, perform the lane changing task once more. After exiting highway 7, you will be entering a residentail area soon. Check everything as you did in business area. The examiner will ask you to do a three point turn and a road side pull over for sure. Parallel parking is a maybe depending on the examiner. Once you are done with these. You will be heading back to the test center and examiner can either ask you to do a front in parking or back in.
Overall, the test itself is ok as long as you have a fair examiner. Be sure to avoid examiner number 171 and 172. These two examiners don’t know what they are doing and they are very subjective. Do whatever to avoid them, if you really can’t, then go with 172 rather than 171.
That was exactly what I did. How can you choose your examiner though? You’re right in saying that some of them are not fair and are very subjective.