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Cheetham Hill driving test centre

DVSA name: Cheetham Hill (Manchester) · Alderglen Road, Cheetham, Manchester, M8 0AL

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Pass rate 2025/26
44.7%
GB 50.0% · North West 49.0%
Median wait, Aug 2026
10.4weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
10,207
4,565 passed

Key facts

  • Cheetham Hill's pass rate was 44.7% in 2025/26 from 10,207 tests, 5.3 points below the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 25 of 31 centres in North West (North West average 49.0%), one of the lower pass rates in the region, 4.3 points below it.
  • The rate has been stable since 2021/22, moving between 40.6% (2023/24) and 46.3% (2021/22).
  • Male candidates passed at 48.7% and female candidates at 40.5%, a gap of 8.2 points, wider than at most centres.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 10.4 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.

Cheetham Hill is a junction test with almost no roundabouts in it. Across the five practice loops on this page there is not a single roundabout manoeuvre, and within two and a half kilometres of the centre there are 201 signalled junctions, a density you meet in inner cities and almost nowhere else. The test is made of traffic lights, right turns across oncoming traffic and busy urban roads. Cheetham Hill Road, Bury New Road, Rochdale Road and Queens Road carry most of it, with the city centre close enough to matter. Nearly six in ten roads in the area are 20 mph. The pass rate has been stable for several years, a little below the North West average, and the wait is shorter than the national median.

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5 loops from the centre, 49 km in all, with 0 roundabouts and 102 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Cheetham Hill; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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

  • 5 routes · 49 km · 102 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 Cheetham Hill Road
    10.7 km loop with 11 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Woodlands Road.
    10.7 km · 22 turns
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  2. Route 2 · via Cheetham Hill Road
    8.9 km loop with 9 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Bury New Road.
    8.9 km · 19 turns
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  3. Route 3 · via Waterloo Road
    9.0 km loop with 13 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Collyhurst Road.
    9.0 km · 23 turns
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  4. Route 4 · via Queens Road
    9.5 km loop with 12 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Rochdale Road.
    9.5 km · 18 turns
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  5. Route 5 · via Queens Road
    10.5 km loop with 10 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Bury Old Road.
    10.5 km · 20 turns
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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.

Two things define the driving here. The first is the 20 mph limit: 58 per cent of the roads tagged around the centre are 20, and most of the rest are 30. The second is the number of controlled junctions, 201 within two and a half kilometres.

Put those together and the test becomes a long sequence of approaches to traffic lights at low speed, with something happening on both sides of the car the whole way. Cheetham Hill Road, Bury New Road, Rochdale Road, Waterloo Road and Queens Road are the arteries, and they are lined with shops, side turnings and people crossing between parked cars.

Turns are what the loops are built from. One holds thirteen right turns and ten left; another has twelve right and six left. A right turn out of a side road onto a busy main road, waiting for a gap while traffic builds behind you, is the junction this test repeats, and it is where observation quietly thins out after the tenth one.

Seven level crossings sit in the area, more than most urban centres have, and 66 schools. From mid-afternoon the residential streets around Elizabeth Street, Woodlands Road and Hazelbottom Road fill with cars and children, and the 20 mph limit stops being notional.

If you prepare one thing for Cheetham Hill, make it emerging right at a junction where you cannot see far in either direction. Everything else on this test is a variation on it.

Pass rate at Cheetham Hill, 2007/08 to 2025/26

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

30%42.5%55%GB 50%44.7%07/0811/1216/1720/2125/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/2610,20744.7%48.7%40.5%
2024/2510,76843.7%48.0%39.0%
2023/2411,55240.6%44.0%36.7%
2022/2311,71241.8%44.4%38.5%
2021/229,36046.3%48.8%43.3%
2020/212,71646.8%50.0%43.5%
2019/209,96337.2%42.5%32.6%
2018/1910,82136.9%40.4%33.7%

North West average 49% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Cheetham Hill

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

012.525GB 11.9 wks10.4Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202610.4244118.9%
Jul 202610.4243321.3%
Jun 20268244421.6%
May 2026523.86321.7%
Apr 20268.9244634.6%
Mar 202618.4243444.6%

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Test day at Cheetham Hill

The centre is on Alderglen Road, a side street off Waterloo Road in Cheetham, north of the city centre. It is a residential setting rather than an industrial estate, so the roads immediately around it are narrow and parked up, and the first minute of the drive starts that way too.

DVSA runs car tests and ADI parts 2 and 3 here, and the centre is accessible if you use a wheelchair. Toilets and waiting facilities are not published, so if you need to know before the day, ring the centre.

Parking for candidates on a small urban unit is normally limited, and instructors often drop candidates at the door and park on a nearby street. That is what is typical for a centre of this kind rather than something the record confirms, so leave time either way.

Manchester Victoria is under a mile and a half away, which makes this one of the easier centres in the city to reach by train.

Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK. The wait here is close to ten weeks, shorter than at West Didsbury or Sale, both of which are further out and slower to get into.

What DVSA publishes about Cheetham Hill

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 Cheetham Hill

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 Cheetham Hill.

  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

Alderglen Road, Cheetham
Manchester M8 0AL

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

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Questions learners ask about Cheetham Hill

Is Cheetham Hill an easy test centre?
Its 44.7% 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 Cheetham Hill?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Cheetham Hill was 10.4 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 Cheetham Hill driving test centre?
Cheetham Hill test centre is at Alderglen Road, Cheetham, Manchester, M8 0AL. 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 Cheetham Hill do a year?
10,207 car tests were conducted at Cheetham Hill in 2025/26, of which 4,565 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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