If you wish to get your driver’s licence in Nova Scotia, you will need to start by getting your learner’s licence as part of the Graduated Driver Licensing program. In order to get your learner’s licence, you will need to take two written tests, which are 20-question tests with one based on rules and the other based on signs. You will need to answer at least 16 questions correctly on each test to pass, achieving an 80% score. In addition to the written tests, you will also need to pass a vision test. When you go to the testing site, you will need to bring proof of age, two other forms of identification, and signed parental consent if you are 16 or 17.

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In addition to paying the knowledge test fee, you will need to pay the licence fee of $25.10 if you pass the written and vision tests. This Nova Scotia practice test can help you pass the rules and signs tests on the first attempt because it is based on the same information from the 2019 Nova Scotia Driver’s Handbook as the real test.

Janet Udle says she has to change all the programs at her driving school to work with the new timelines. (Carolyn Ray/CBC)Nova Scotia currently has the shortest learner stage period — just three months after getting a knowledge permit, if drivers take an official training program. That wait is six months without classroom time.As of Friday, the wait will be nine months for those who attend driving school and a full year for those who don't.Numbers from the transportation department show they issued 1,714 knowledge tests in the first three weeks of March last year. This year, they've issued 3,749. 'Now's the time!'

Janet Udle, who runs High School Driving Academy, says she's received a number of calls from people confused about the changes.' We have sent to our students who do not have their learners an information sheet, and we've posted the new law at the high schools and also a few places around HRM,' she said. 'Now's the time!' The timeline is being changed to give new drivers more experience, and have them practise through a number of different seasons. Driving instructor Wade Hitchcock hopes students use the new rules to practise more. (Carolyn Ray/CBC)Udle says driving schools in the province are now trying to figure out how to adapt their own programs.'

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Driving schools have to decide — are we going to spread it out over a nine-month period? Or are we going to wait until the student has been in the program for six months and then have them drive. So we'll have to make a decision about what's best.'

Driving instructor Wade Hitchcock says he's heard of a number of teens who are turning 16 in April and are disappointed they won't make the cut.His biggest complaint with the current system is that students don't practice in between lessons because the timeline is so short. He hopes learners take advantage of the time and do their homework.'

Now they might have a month between lessons, and we really have to tell the parents to get involved and get out and practice with them,' Hitchcock said. CommentsTo encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.

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