Located in Southampton you will find two driving test centres. The first is Forest Hills and the second is Maybush. Therefore, it is essential that you check your email confirmation to make sure that your book at the correct driving test centre.

Forest Hills – Busy City Driving

As Southampton is a busy city, challenging roads will feature in the driving test. If your driving test is early in the morning or late in the afternoon expect a high amount of traffic. If you wish to avoid the traffic, your advice to book your driving test between the hours of 10 AM and 2 PM.

The driving examiner at Forest Hills driving test centre will require you to a good understanding and skills at dealing with various roundabouts. Are roundabouts will arrange from the small mini roundabout in the residential areas to large multilane roundabouts leading onto dual carriageway is such as the A355.

The driving test from a Forest Hills will last approximately 40 minutes. During this time, you will be expected to carry out one reversing manoeuvre, minutes of and in driving and possibly the emergency stop exercise. The emergency stop exercise is not compulsory but at the discretion of the examiner.

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Address for Forest Hills Practical Driving Test Centre 

Forest Hill DTC,
Forest Hills Drive,
Southampton.
Hampshire.
SO18 2FY.

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Both male and female toilets are available. Wheelchair access is also available to test centre. available.Test candidate car parking available, but is limited. Forest Hill Test Centre provides tests for cars and taxi.

Driving Test Centres Closest to Forest Hill DTC:

Maybush Southampton Practical Test Centre – Distance: 3.93 miles
Winchester Practical Test Centre – Distance: 8.65 miles
Lee on the Solent Practical Test Centre – Distance: 11.13 miles
Portsmouth Practical Test Centre – Distance: 12.37 miles
Newport Isle of Wight Practical Test Centre – Distance: 16.78 miles

Forest Hills – Pass Rate

Pass Rates for Forest Hills Driving Test Centre are not currently available, we will update this page accordingly when they do.

Our Semi-intensive courses in Forest Hills are designed for those learners who have a valid UK provisional driving license, passed their theory test, and have already taken several driving lessons. These one-week pass courses are also suitable for international drivers, even if they have never driven in the UK before, learner drivers who have recently failed a practical test, and those who are almost up to the test standard.

Fast Track Driving Courses in Forest Hills

If you cannot afford to wait months to pass your driving test, then our last-minute intensive driving courses are just perfect for you. If you are up to the test standard, we will book your driving test before starting the intensive course. These courses are also known as fast track driving courses, driving crash courses, and pass-in one-week courses. DTC can even book your practical test as part of the intensive driving course.