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Brentwood driving test centre

DVSA name: Brentwood (London) · 89 Warley Hill, Brentwood, CM14 5JN

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Pass rate 2025/26
48.5%
GB 50.0% · East of England 51.4%
Median wait, Aug 2026
3.6weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
5,791
2,809 passed

Key facts

  • Brentwood's pass rate was 48.5% in 2025/26 from 5,791 tests, 1.5 points below the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 17 of 24 centres in East of England (East of England average 51.4%), one of the lower pass rates in the region, 2.9 points below it.
  • The rate has been stable since 2021/22, moving between 47.2% (2022/23) and 50.1% (2021/22).
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 3.6 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • 26.6% of the standard slots in the booking window were still unbooked in August 2026, which usually means a cancellation or new date is realistic here.

Brentwood is a mini-roundabout town. Twenty-one of them sit within a couple of miles of the centre on Warley Hill, against only nineteen sets of traffic lights, so the junction you meet most often is a small painted circle rather than a signal. Almost a third of the mapped roads nearby carry a 20 mph limit and most of the rest are 30, which means the test is fought at low speed with a decision every few hundred metres rather than on open road. There are no A-roads and no dual carriageway in the area at all. The practice loops on this page run between about five and seven miles and take in Ingrave Road, London Road and Mascalls Lane. The pass rate has been flat since 2021 and sits a little under the national average.

Drive the Brentwood test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 46 km in all, with 12 roundabouts and 111 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Brentwood; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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Drive all 5 loops around Brentwood from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 46 km · 111 marked turns
  • Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
  • Street View tour of each route
  • Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
  • The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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  1. Route 1 · via The Avenue
    11.8 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 17 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Ingrave Road.
    11.8 km · 30 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via Mascalls Lane
    9.1 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of London Road.
    9.1 km · 24 turns · 3 roundabouts
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  3. Route 3 · via Warley Hill
    9.3 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Mount Crescent.
    9.3 km · 22 turns · 3 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Mascalls Lane
    7.8 km loop with 7 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Eagle Way.
    7.8 km · 12 turns
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  5. Route 5 · via Mascalls Lane
    8.4 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 6 right turns, 13 left turns and a stretch of Warley Hill.
    8.4 km · 23 turns · 4 roundabouts
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

Mini-roundabouts decide this test. Twenty-one of them sit within a couple of miles of the centre, several in quick succession on the roads off Warley Hill and Junction Road, and they are the junction most candidates lose marks on. The rules are the ones people forget under pressure: give way to the right, signal for the exit you are taking, and drive round the painted circle rather than over it. Where two sit close together the exit of the first is the approach to the second, and there is no room to reset in between.

The loops on this page are turn-heavy rather than fast. One of them packs seventeen right turns into seven miles; another has twelve rights and nine lefts. Emerging right across moving traffic is therefore the thing you repeat most, and on the busier stretches of London Road and Ingrave Road the gaps are short. Hesitation gets marked here as readily as impatience does.

Around a third of the mapped roads within a couple of miles are 20 mph and most of the rest are 30, so the speed range is narrow and the change between the two is signed rather than obvious. Eighteen schools sit inside the same radius, which matters at nine in the morning and again in the middle of the afternoon. Manoeuvres are usually asked for on the quieter residential roads such as Crescent Road, Kings Road and The Drive, where the kerbs are straight and there is parking on one side to work against.

Pass rate at Brentwood, 2007/08 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

30%45%60%GB 50%48.5%07/0811/1216/1720/2125/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/265,79148.5%48.1%49.2%
2024/255,48548.5%48.6%48.3%
2023/244,81049.7%48.8%51.1%
2022/234,09347.2%46.9%47.7%
2021/223,15950.1%50.0%50.3%
2020/2170952.5%52.4%52.5%
2019/202,89647.3%50.5%43.9%
2018/192,56355.1%55.4%54.7%

East of England average 51.4% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Brentwood

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

01020GB 11.9 wks3.6Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 20263.6244626.6%
Jul 20263.6246015.8%
Jun 20268.3244718.2%
May 20266245516.5%
Apr 20264.3246717.6%
Mar 20262.4246818.7%

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Test day at Brentwood

The centre is at 89 Warley Hill, on the edge of the town centre. Brentwood station is about four hundred metres away, which is close enough to walk with time in hand, so this is one of the few centres where arriving by train instead of with an instructor is realistic. GOV.UK records that you can access the centre if you use a wheelchair. It runs car tests and ADI part 2 and part 3 tests; there are no motorcycle tests here.

Candidate parking is not published. A unit of this kind usually has few spaces of its own, so the safe assumption is that your instructor drops you at the door and parks on a side road afterwards. If you are driving yourself, give yourself ten minutes to find a space and walk back rather than circling with the clock running.

The examiner calls you by name, checks your licence and asks you to sign the declaration that the car is insured for the test. The eyesight check is done outside before you get in. Booking, moving and cancelling a test all happen through GOV.UK, and the wait here has been running at under four weeks, shorter than at any of the centres around it.

What DVSA publishes about Brentwood

Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.

Tests conducted here
carADI part 2ADI part 3
Wheelchair access
DVSA states you can access this centre in a wheelchair.

Learner reports from Brentwood

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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What examiners mark most often

DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Brentwood.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

89 Warley Hill
Brentwood CM14 5JN

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Brentwood

Is Brentwood an easy test centre?
Its 48.5% pass rate in 2025/26 is below the 50.0% national average. Busy urban roads and complex junctions usually explain lower rates; knowing the local routes closes most of that gap.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Brentwood?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Brentwood was 3.6 weeks, and you had to look about 24 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
Where is Brentwood driving test centre?
Brentwood test centre is at 89 Warley Hill, Brentwood, CM14 5JN. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
How many driving tests does Brentwood do a year?
5,791 car tests were conducted at Brentwood in 2025/26, of which 2,809 were passed.

Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.

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