Documentation
Before attending your driving test ensure that you have your provisional licence and you theory test pass certificate with you when you arrive for your test. If you have completed a drivers record you can also bring it with you.
Check that you have signed your license.
If you have a full driving licence which was issued in another country but isn't eligible for exchange for a GB Licence, you must apply for, and bring with you, a GB provisional licence. For information see DVLA information sheet D100 Downloadable here.
Your examiner will not be able to conduct the test if you cant produce one of these licences.
If you have a photo licence you must bring with you the counterpart, which is part of the licence.
All documents must be original - DSA cant accept photocopies.
Photo identity
If your licence does not show your photograph you must also bring with you a form of photographic identification. For this your examiner will accept your a valid passport.
When applying for your provision licence a photograph of yourself, which has been signed and dated on the back by an acceptable person, confirming that the photograph is a true likeness of you. A signature will be accepted from the following:
- Approved Driving Instructor
- DSA certified motorcycle instructor
- Member of Parliament
- local authority councillor
- teacher (qualified)
- Justice of the Peace
- civil servant (established)
- police officer
- bank official
- minister of religion
- barrister or solicitor
Your test will be cancelled if you can't provide one of these forms of identification
Eyesight Test
Before you enter your vehicle the examiner will give you an eye test, you must prove to the examiner that in good daylight, you can read a number plate with letters 79.4 mm height at a minimum of 20.5 m (67 feet). Number plates with a thinner font, typically those introduced after 2001 should be read from at least 20 metres (66 feet)
You may wear glasses or contact lenses to read the number plate, however you must insure you always wear them when you are driving in the future.
