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Tottenham driving test centre

Driving Test Centre Tottenham Annex Building, Selby Centre, Selby Road, N17 8JL

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Pass rate 2025/26
48.9%
GB 50.0% · London 49.1%
Median wait, Aug 2026
10.3weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
9,844
4,812 passed

Key facts

  • Tottenham's pass rate was 48.9% in 2025/26 from 9,844 tests, in line with the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 15 of 24 centres in London (London average 49.1%), a mid-table pass rates in the region.
  • Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 4.9 points, from 44% to 48.9%.
  • Male candidates passed at 51.2% and female candidates at 45.6%, a gap of 5.6 points.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 10.3 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 12.9 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 2.6 weeks.

Four out of five roads tagged around the Tottenham centre are 20 mph. The test is slow, dense and made almost entirely of turns. One of the practice loops on this page holds eighteen right turns and twelve left in under seven miles, and across all five there is a single roundabout. What you get instead is White Hart Lane, Lordship Lane, Victoria Road and the streets between them, plus the Great Cambridge Road, which is dual carriageway and a different world from everything around it. The pass rate has risen since 2021 and now sits mid-table for London, and the wait has come down by six weeks in a year.

Drive the Tottenham test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 52 km in all, with 1 roundabouts and 131 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Tottenham; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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

  • 5 routes · 52 km · 131 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 Great Cambridge Road
    9.9 km loop with 1 roundabout, 18 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of White Hart Lane.
    9.9 km · 31 turns · 1 roundabout
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  2. Route 2 · via Lordship Lane
    10.4 km loop with 16 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of White Hart Lane.
    10.4 km · 24 turns
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  3. Route 3 · via White Hart Lane
    9.4 km loop with 14 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Great Cambridge Road.
    9.4 km · 24 turns
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  4. Route 4 · via White Hart Lane
    11.4 km loop with 13 right turns, 14 left turns and a stretch of Sterling Way.
    11.4 km · 27 turns
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  5. Route 5 · via White Hart Lane
    10.7 km loop with 14 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Great Cambridge Road.
    10.7 km · 25 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.

Eighty per cent of the roads tagged within two and a half kilometres of the centre are 20 mph. That is the fact to build your preparation around. Almost everything other than one main road is a 20 zone with parked cars, side turnings and 69 schools inside the same radius.

The exception is the Great Cambridge Road. It is dual carriageway, it is the fastest thing in the area by a distance, and the loops both join and leave it. Getting up to the speed of the traffic already moving, then losing it again at the other end, is the only higher-speed driving in an otherwise slow test.

Everything else is junction work. White Hart Lane, Lordship Lane, Silver Street, Victoria Road and Sterling Way carry the bulk of it, and the loops are dense with turns: eighteen right turns on one, sixteen on another, fourteen and thirteen on two more. A right turn across oncoming traffic on a busy 20 mph road, with a queue behind you and someone waiting to cross, is what this test is made of.

Roundabouts barely appear. Only two named ones sit in the area, at Belmont Road and Smythe Close, though 25 mini-roundabouts are scattered through the residential streets. Three level crossings sit in the area as well.

The failure mode here is not one difficult junction. It is observation thinning out over thirty turns, and speed creeping over 20 on a road wide enough to feel like a 30.

Pass rate at Tottenham, 2016/17 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%48.9%16/1720/2125/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/269,84448.9%51.2%45.6%
2024/2512,17847.9%49.6%45.4%
2023/2410,26648.7%50.7%45.8%
2022/237,04046.0%49.3%41.7%
2021/225,47044.0%47.4%39.9%
2020/211,28043.0%48.3%37.5%
2019/205,75039.6%43.2%36.1%
2018/194,47037.5%42.8%33.1%

London average 49.1% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Tottenham

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

012.525GB 11.9 wks10.3Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202610.3244926.3%
Jul 202610.3244432%
Jun 202613.4243934.6%
May 202611.7244228.5%
Apr 20269.6244431.1%
Mar 20267.1245033.6%

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Test day at Tottenham

The centre is the annex building at the Selby Centre on Selby Road, off White Hart Lane. It is a shared site rather than a standalone DVSA unit, so follow the signs for the driving test centre once you are in rather than looking for a separate entrance from the road.

DVSA runs car tests here and nothing else, which makes this a smaller operation than most London centres. Nothing is published about wheelchair access or other arrangements, so if you need step-free entry or anything else agreed in advance, ring the centre before the day.

Parking and waiting facilities are not published either. A shared site of this kind normally has some parking, but it is shared with everything else there, so arrive with time to find a space rather than counting on one by the door.

White Hart Lane station is about six hundred metres away, which is as close as London test centres get, and the buses along the High Road run past the end of the area.

Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK. The wait is around ten weeks and six weeks shorter than a year ago, so getting a date here has become considerably easier than it was.

What DVSA publishes about Tottenham

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

Tests conducted here
car
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Learner reports from Tottenham

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 Tottenham.

  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

Driving Test Centre Tottenham Annex Building, Selby Centre, Selby Road
Tottenham N17 8JL

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

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Questions learners ask about Tottenham

Is Tottenham an easy test centre?
It is close to the national average: 48.9% of tests were passed in 2025/26 against 50.0% across Great Britain.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Tottenham?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Tottenham was 10.3 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 Tottenham driving test centre?
Tottenham test centre is at Driving Test Centre Tottenham Annex Building, Selby Centre, Selby Road, N17 8JL. 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 Tottenham do a year?
9,844 car tests were conducted at Tottenham in 2025/26, of which 4,812 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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