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Mitcham driving test centre

DVSA name: Mitcham (London) · The Hilton Hotel, 101 Waddon Way, Purley Way, Croydon, CR9 4HH

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Pass rate 2025/26
47.0%
GB 50.0% · London 49.1%
Median wait, Aug 2026
12.3weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
15,046
7,076 passed

Key facts

  • Mitcham's pass rate was 47% in 2025/26 from 15,046 tests, 3 points below the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 16 of 24 centres in London (London average 49.1%), a mid-table pass rates in the region, 2.1 points below it.
  • Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 3.3 points, from 43.7% to 47%.
  • Male candidates passed at 48.7% and female candidates at 44.5%, a gap of 4.2 points.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 12.3 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 5.6 weeks, so waits have grown by about 6.7 weeks.

Mitcham's car tests do not start in Mitcham. The centre has moved to the Hilton on Waddon Way, off Purley Way in Croydon, and it stays there until further notice, so the drive is a Croydon drive: Purley Way, Stafford Road, Brighton Road and the residential streets above Waddon. It is a big centre and a hard one. There were 15,046 car tests here in 2025/26 and 47 per cent passed, against 50 for Great Britain, which puts it sixteenth of the twenty-four London centres. What makes it hard is not speed. Sixty per cent of the practice loops on this page sit at 30 mph and thirty-five per cent at 20, with ninety-three separate pieces of traffic calming spread along them.

Drive the Mitcham test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 55 km in all, with 7 roundabouts and 109 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Mitcham; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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

  • 5 routes · 55 km · 109 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 Mollison Drive
    10.5 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Foresters Drive.
    10.5 km · 20 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via Purley Way
    11.8 km loop with 13 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Foresters Drive.
    11.8 km · 25 turns
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  3. Route 3 · via Purley Way
    12.0 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Selsdon Road.
    12.0 km · 22 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Brighton Road
    10.0 km loop with 1 roundabout, 11 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Purley Way.
    10.0 km · 18 turns · 1 roundabout
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  5. Route 5 · via Purley Way
    10.9 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 13 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Foresters Drive.
    10.9 km · 24 turns · 2 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.

Sixty per cent of the drive is at 30 mph and thirty-five per cent at 20, which sounds gentle until you count what sits inside it. The practice loops on this page hold thirty sets of traffic lights, thirty-two signalled crossings and twenty-five zebras. That is a crossing every few hundred metres for most of the test.

The loops run ten to twelve kilometres with eleven to thirteen right turns each and six to twelve left. Foresters Drive appears in three of the five, Selsdon Road and Purley Way in one each.

Purley Way is the fast part. It is dual carriageway and it carries the only 40 mph stretch on the drive, about five per cent of the length. Everything else is town driving: Warham Road, Stafford Road, Plough Lane, Waddon Way, Brighton Road and Purley Road, then the residential grid above them, Denning Avenue, Cosedge Crescent, St Augustine's Avenue and Blenheim Park Road.

Roundabouts barely feature. Three are named on the loops, at Haling Park Road, Pampisford Road and Warham Road. Five mini-roundabouts and thirty-five give-way junctions do the rest of the junction work.

The detail that catches people out is the traffic calming: ninety-three humps, cushions and tables across the loops. On a 20 mph street with cars parked both sides, a hump met at the wrong moment becomes a position fault or a brake late enough for the examiner to write it down.

There is no level crossing and no rural section, and eighty-four schools sit inside the area.

Pass rate at Mitcham, 2012/13 to 2025/26

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

35%45%55%GB 50%47%12/1315/1618/1921/2225/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/2615,04647.0%48.7%44.5%
2024/2513,82548.9%50.3%47.1%
2023/2413,64551.2%53.3%48.6%
2022/2312,14245.0%46.9%42.8%
2021/229,40843.7%46.2%40.7%
2020/212,97843.5%47.2%39.9%
2019/2010,46042.2%47.0%38.2%
2018/1910,56941.3%46.0%37.5%

London average 49.1% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Mitcham

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

01020GB 11.9 wks12.3Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202612.3243943.1%
Jul 202612.3244439.7%
Jun 202613.1244241.8%
May 202613.4243941.3%
Apr 20265.3245424.1%
Mar 20265.3245827.7%

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Test day at Mitcham

The address is the Hilton Hotel, 101 Waddon Way, Croydon, CR9 4HH. Car tests and motorcycle module 2 run from here. Module 1 and ADI part 3 stayed at the old site on Redhouse Road in Mitcham, so check which one you are booked for before you set off.

The waiting area is set up in the hotel reception and there are toilets. There is nothing to practise on at the hotel.

Parking there is first come, first served and chargeable after fifteen minutes, which is not long enough to sit out a test. Instructors use Waddon Way and Williams Terrace instead, and that is what to plan for. Waddon station is a little over a kilometre away.

The wait is the thing to book around. Learners who tested in July 2026 had waited a median of 12.3 weeks, against 4.4 weeks a year earlier, and the first week with a tenth of its appointments still free was twenty-four weeks out. Morden, West Wickham and Bromley are all within twelve kilometres and all pass a higher share of their candidates, so it is worth checking their dates before you settle on this one. Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK.

What DVSA publishes about Mitcham

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

Tests conducted here
carmotorcycle module 1 (off-road)motorcycle module 2 (on-road)ADI part 3
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
On the day
Mitcham (London) MPTC has temporarily relocated to the following address until further notice: The Hilton Hotel, 101 Waddon Way, Purley Way, Croydon, CR9 4HH (Car and Mod 2 bike testing ONLY - Mod 1s and ADI testing remains at the main site). Parking is available on a first come first serve basis at the hotel, however, is chargeable after 15 minutes. There is parking available on Waddon Way and Williams Terrace. There is no facility to practice at the hotel. There will be a waiting area set up in the reception and toilet facilities are available at the hotel.

Other tests at Mitcham

This centre is not car only. DVSA publishes results for these categories separately, and they are taken by different candidates on different vehicles, so the rates are not comparable with the car figure above.

Motorcycle

Module 1 2025/26
66.6%1,667 tests
Module 2 2025/26
65.4%1,646 tests

Year by year at this site

Learner reports from Mitcham

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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 Mitcham.

  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

The Hilton Hotel, 101 Waddon Way, Purley Way, Croydon
Croydon CR9 4HH

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

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Questions learners ask about Mitcham

Is Mitcham an easy test centre?
Its 47% 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 Mitcham?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Mitcham was 12.3 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 Mitcham driving test centre?
Mitcham test centre is at The Hilton Hotel, 101 Waddon Way, Purley Way, Croydon, CR9 4HH. 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 Mitcham do a year?
15,046 car tests were conducted at Mitcham in 2025/26, of which 7,076 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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