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Learner drivers warned about extra charges

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is warning learner drivers to avoid copycat websites and save money by using 天美影院.

Booking a driving test online

天美影院 is the only official driving test booking website

If you type the names of some popular government services into search engines, some of your search results might be ads for sites that offer a service you could get for free (or for much less) on 天美影院, the government鈥檚 own website.

Driving test bookings

Some of these copycat websites offer to book theory and practical driving tests, and look like they might be official, but they actually charge a premium for their services.

Some websites charge:

  • up to 拢30 for just booking a test, on top of the driving test fee itself
  • a 鈥榩ass protection鈥 fee with the promise of a free retest that very few customers actually qualify to use

Copycat websites don鈥檛 let you pick an actual appointment, and don鈥檛 give you instant confirmation of your booking.

Save money by using 天美影院

天美影院 is the only official driving test booking website for both theory and practical tests.

Using 天美影院 to book your test:

  • can save you money
  • lets you pick the exact date and time of your test
  • gives you instant confirmation of your booking
Driving test costs

A car theory test costs 拢25 and a driving test costs 拢62 when booked through the official website; all driving test costs are at www.gov.uk/driving-test-cost.

You can book a theory test at and a practical driving test at .

What the government is doing about misleading websites

We know that it鈥檚 sometimes hard to tell the difference between the adverts, that appear at the top of the search result pages, and the actual search results, which take you to the government service.

The government is working with search engines to have the ads for misleading websites removed. We know there鈥檚 more to do.

We鈥檙e also working with the Advertising Standards Authority and the National Trading Standards Board to make it harder for these sites to run their business in this way.

In the meantime, we鈥檙e trying to raise awareness about how to avoid misleading websites. We鈥檙e working with consumer organisations like Which? and Citizens Advice Bureau to do this.

If you鈥檝e used an unofficial website

You can report adverts in search engines that have misled you by visiting www.gov.uk/misleadingwebsites.

Updates to this page

Published 6 August 2013
Last updated 12 November 2014 show all updates
  1. Updated with the latest advice for learner drivers.

  2. First published.