Wanstead driving test centre
DVSA name: Wanstead (London) · 2 Devon House, Hermon Hill, Wanstead, E11 2AW
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Key facts
- Wanstead's pass rate was 44.4% in 2025/26 from 8,258 tests, 5.6 points below the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 20 of 24 centres in London (London average 49.1%), one of the lower pass rates in the region, 4.7 points below it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 7.3 points, from 37.1% to 44.4%.
- Male candidates passed at 46.1% and female candidates at 41.7%, a gap of 4.4 points.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 20.3 weeks since booking (longer than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 11.1 weeks, so waits have grown by about 9.2 weeks.
Two-thirds of the roads tagged around the Wanstead centre are 20 mph, and yet this is one of the harder London centres to pass at. The reason is what surrounds those quiet streets. Eastern Avenue, the North Circular Road and the A12 all run within reach, Charlie Brown's Roundabout sits where they meet, and 124 sets of traffic signals are packed into two and a half kilometres. The test moves between slow residential roads and dual carriageway with very little in between. Sixty-six schools sit in the same radius. The pass rate has climbed a long way since 2021 but remains below the London average, and the wait has more than doubled in the space of a year.
Drive the Wanstead test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 51 km in all, with 16 roundabouts and 93 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Wanstead; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Wanstead from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 51 km · 93 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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- Route 1 · via North Circular Road12.5 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Eastern Avenue.12.5 km · 24 turns · 5 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Whipps Cross Road8.6 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 13 left turns and a stretch of High Street.8.6 km · 22 turns · 2 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Eastern Avenue9.9 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 6 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Roding Lane South.9.9 km · 16 turns · 5 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Whipps Cross Road10.2 km loop with 1 roundabout, 9 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Aldersbrook Road.10.2 km · 21 turns · 1 roundabout
- Route 5 · via North Circular Road10.4 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 4 right turns, 3 left turns and a stretch of Whipps Cross Road.10.4 km · 10 turns · 3 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Sixty-seven per cent of the roads tagged within two and a half kilometres of the centre are 20 mph. Most of a Wanstead test is therefore slow work: residential streets, side turnings close together, parked cars on both sides and 66 schools inside the same radius. The easiest mark to give away is a 20 that drifts upward because the road is wide and nothing is coming.
The other half of the picture is the network the area sits inside. Eastern Avenue and the North Circular Road are dual carriageway, the A12 runs through, and Charlie Brown's Roundabout sits where they come together. The practice loops on this page reach them. The longest, at 12.5 km, runs along Eastern Avenue. Joining fast traffic from a slip, holding a lane round a large roundabout and getting off again is a different discipline from everything else in the test, and it arrives without a warm-up.
Signals are the third theme. There are 124 sets within the area and 39 mini-roundabouts alongside them. Between the two, a route here rarely covers four hundred metres without a decision to make. High Street, Whipps Cross Road, George Lane and Lea Bridge Road carry most of that traffic.
Manoeuvres come off the main roads onto quieter streets, Chelmsford Road, The Drive, Snaresbrook Road and the ones around them, where low limits and heavy parking make a pull-up on the right the obvious ask.
Prepare for the join and the leave. Practise dropping from a dual carriageway onto a 20 mph street and settling immediately, because that transition happens more than once and the examiner is watching the first hundred metres of it.
Waiting time for a test at Wanstead
Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.
| Month | Median wait | Weeks to free slots | Slots offered | Still free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 20.3 | 24 | 30 | 46.3% |
| Jul 2026 | 20.3 | 24 | 29 | 49% |
| Jun 2026 | 16.3 | 24 | 32 | 43.7% |
| May 2026 | 17.3 | 24 | 40 | 39.3% |
| Apr 2026 | 13.6 | 24 | 41 | 40.4% |
| Mar 2026 | 11.3 | 24 | 45 | 40% |
Pass rate at Wanstead, 2007/08 to 2025/26
Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.
Month by month, 2025/26
By year and gender
| Year | Tests | Pass rate | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 8,258 | 44.4% | 46.1% | 41.7% |
| 2024/25 | 8,370 | 40.4% | 42.2% | 37.3% |
| 2023/24 | 9,623 | 40.3% | 41.5% | 38.5% |
| 2022/23 | 7,728 | 38.8% | 41.3% | 35.4% |
| 2021/22 | 7,743 | 37.1% | 39.3% | 33.8% |
| 2020/21 | 2,380 | 40.5% | 42.3% | 38.0% |
| 2019/20 | 7,856 | 34.7% | 37.5% | 31.3% |
| 2018/19 | 10,316 | 35.7% | 39.3% | 31.6% |
London average 49.1% · GB 50%
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Test day at Wanstead
The centre is at 2 Devon House on Hermon Hill, and Snaresbrook station is two hundred metres away. That is about as close as a London test centre gets to a station, so if you are not travelling in your instructor's car, this is the one to do by train.
Car tests are conducted here along with ADI part 3, and nothing else. Nothing is published about wheelchair access or other arrangements, so if you need step-free entry, or anything agreed before the day, ring the centre.
Parking is not published, and a building on a main road of this kind rarely has much of its own. Plan on a side street and a short walk, which is typical for centres in this position rather than confirmed for this one.
Arrive about ten minutes before your slot. The examiner calls you by name, checks your licence and asks you to sign the declaration that the car is insured for the test, then does the eyesight check outside.
The wait is the thing to plan around. Candidates tested in the summer had waited a median of twenty weeks, against eight and a half a year earlier, so book as far ahead as you can manage and keep watching for cancellations. Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK.
What DVSA publishes about Wanstead
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 3
- Wheelchair access
- Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
Learner reports from Wanstead
No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.
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 Wanstead.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
2 Devon House, Hermon HillWanstead E11 2AW
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Wanstead
- Is Wanstead an easy test centre?
- Its 44.4% 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 Wanstead?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Wanstead was 20.3 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 Wanstead driving test centre?
- Wanstead test centre is at 2 Devon House, Hermon Hill, Wanstead, E11 2AW. 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 Wanstead do a year?
- 8,258 car tests were conducted at Wanstead in 2025/26, of which 3,670 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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