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Why accuracy is the whole product
We run two free study sites: New Driver Hub, for the Ontario G1, British Columbia and Alberta Class 7 driving knowledge tests, and one for the Canadian citizenship test. They are study guides with practice questions and mock exams, in English, French and Chinese. The people using them are often new to Canada and are learning rules they will be examined on and then expected to follow. A wrong practice answer does real harm: someone learns it, repeats it on the test, and perhaps on the road. So the sites are built around one question: can every statement be traced to an official source?
Rule 1: if it cannot be traced to an official page, it is not published
Every chapter, every practice question and every answer is based on a specific official document: the provincial driver's handbook, a government page, or for the citizenship test, the official study guide Discover Canada and the canada.ca pages that describe the test. Each section names the page it draws on and links to it, so a reader can open the original and check. A fact that we cannot find in an official source is deleted rather than softened. Wording from forums, other practice sites or memory does not qualify.
Rule 2: the citations are checked by the build, not by a person
Every section carries, in its source data, a short quotation from the official document it cites. Before a new version of a site can be published, an automated check downloads the official documents and confirms that each quotation still appears in them, word for word. If an official page has been rewritten and a quotation no longer matches, the build fails and nothing ships until a person has reviewed the change. This is how a rule change on ontario.ca or canada.ca becomes a failed build on our side rather than a stale page.
Rule 3: numbers must agree in every language
The sites are written in up to four languages, and the most dangerous mistake in a translation is a number: "3 demerit points" in English and "4" in Chinese. A second automated check reads every published string in every language and confirms that each number and clock time written in one language appears in all the others. A translation that is obviously untranslated, or wildly longer or shorter than its source, is flagged too. Tone and meaning still need a human reader, and the sites say so.
Rule 4: our own words, with the source beside them
The study chapters are written in our own words and cite the official text; they are not copies of the handbooks. The handbooks are the authority, and the sites link to them on every section so readers can and should read the original. Where an official source does not publish something, we say so rather than inventing it: Ontario, for example, does not publish the number of questions or the pass mark for the G1 test, so our mock exam's format is described as a common practice format, not as an official rule.
Rule 5: pictures have a provenance too
Road-sign questions need pictures of road signs. The artwork on ontario.ca is Crown copyright, so the sites do not use it. Most signs are drawn from public-domain vector reproductions of the official designs; the rest are our own simplified drawings, labelled as such. Each sign's source is recorded alongside it, so the artwork can be checked just like the wording.
Rule 6: facts that change are shown, not scored
Some things an official guide states are no longer true, and some depend on where you live. The citizenship guide still names the previous monarch, for example. The citizenship site keeps a separate "facts that change" page that shows both the guide's wording and the current situation, with the date we last checked, and never uses those facts in a scored question. Fees, dates and penalties on the driving sites carry the same kind of warning: confirm with the official source, because they change.
Rule 7: nothing leaves your device
None of the sites has accounts. Practice progress, mistakes and bookmarks are kept in the browser on the reader's own device, and are never sent to us. The sites are free and are supported by advertising, which is disclosed on each site's privacy page.
What the sites are not
They are independent study aids. They are not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, DriveTest, ICBC, the Government of Alberta, the Government of Canada or IRCC. Passing a mock exam on our sites does not guarantee passing the real test, and the official publications are always the final authority.
If you find a mistake
We want to know. Email suntech.solutions.contact@gmail.com with the site, the question or section, and if possible the page of the official handbook you are comparing it with. Corrections go through the same checks as everything else.