Driving Lessons in Barnet

Lessons are £40 an hour across N12, N20 and EN5, and automatic costs exactly the same as manual. Ten hours is £389 and twenty is £764, which brings it to £38.20 an hour. The figures come from the booking system, so the price here is the price you book.

Barnet's own centre is the default and its current DVSA figures are at the top of this page. Mill Hill is also inside the borough and sits higher, and Borehamwood is just over the Hertfordshire border and higher again. Few London boroughs give learners three realistic options.

Of the three, Mill Hill publishes the highest at 51.4%, with Borehamwood at 50.8% and Barnet at 49.9%. The spread is under two points, which is small enough that familiarity with the routes matters more. Ask your instructor which centre they teach most.

Yes, at the same price as manual. It is worth considering in this borough specifically, because the hills are where manual learners lose the most hours. Say automatic when you book.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, and that is why the person teaching you is a local independent who chose to cover N12, N20 or EN5, not someone allocated from a rota. Your money is held until the lesson has happened before it reaches them. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked, and you can ask for a female instructor when you book.

Barnet, Finchley, Whetstone, Mill Hill, Hendon, Totteridge, Golders Green, Colindale, New Barnet and East Finchley among others. Edgware sits in the Middlesex HA area and has its own page. 10 of the borough's 16 postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough or with Hertfordshire, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The flatter residential streets around Whetstone and Friern Barnet are a gentler start than the hills, and instructors will usually begin there whichever part of the borough you live in.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. Hill starts and the North Circular are the two things people most often come back for here.

Yes. Pass Plus is the DVSA's six-module course for new licence holders, covering motorway, dual carriageway, rural and night driving, and some insurers reduce premiums for it. Barnet suits it well: the M1 is close and the Hertfordshire lanes give you the rural module without a long drive.

They can, before your test if you want. Learners are allowed on motorways in a dual-control car with a fully qualified instructor. The M1 and the A1 both run through or beside the borough, so it fits into a normal lesson.

DVSA research puts it at 45 hours of professional lessons plus 22 hours of private practice, and learners who get that private practice are markedly more likely to pass first time. Learners here often have access to a car, which brings the paid hours down for those who use it, and the hills tend to add a few early on. Your instructor will give you an honest count after assessing you.

It moves weekly, so check GOV.UK on the day you book. Two things stay true: tests can be booked up to 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official waiting list or cancellation list. Having three centres in reach is the real advantage here, because when one is full another often is not. If you already hold a date and want an earlier one, our free Driving Test Swap matches you with another learner who wants yours.