DRIVING LESSONS IN KINGSTON

Manual and automatic driving lessons in Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) cost the same: £38.00 per hour pay-as-you-go (£76 for a 2-hour starter session). Block bookings reduce the hourly rate to £37.00/hr for 10 hours (£370), £36.30/hr for 20 hours (£726), £36.10/hr for 30 hours (£1,083), and £35.90/hr for 40 hours (£1,436, saving £84). A £1.99 booking admin fee applies.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: According to the official DVSA 2025/26 practical test dataset, Tolworth Driving Test Centre (Douglas House, 1B-1C Tolworth Close, Tolworth, Surbiton, KT6 7EW) recorded a 53.6% overall pass rate across 10,164 tests, compared with the 51.2% Great Britain average. Manual candidates achieved 56.1%, automatic candidates achieved 49.9%, and first-attempt candidates achieved 50.4%.

The nearest active official DVSA / Pearson VUE car theory test centre for Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners is Croydon Theory Test Centre at 11th Floor, Suffolk House, George Street, Croydon, CR0 1PE (3.6 miles via A23/Tramlink). The official GOV.UK car theory test fee is £23.00, and every Rated Driving learner gets free access to our DVSA Theory & Hazard Perception App.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: Yes, and at the same price as manual. Tolworth, in the borough, passed 49.9% of 4,152 automatic tests in the DVSA 2025/26 figures, against 56.1% for manual. Say automatic when you book and we match you with an instructor whose car is automatic and who covers KT1, KT2 or KT3. In the one-way system and on the A3 the difficulty is lane choice, which an automatic lets you concentrate on.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: No. Rated Driving is an agent rather than a school, which is why the instructor who turns up is a local independent working KT postcodes and not an employee sent from a depot. We hold your payment until after each lesson, then pass it on. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked, and you can ask for a female instructor.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: Kingston, Surbiton, New Malden, Tolworth, Chessington, Norbiton, Coombe, Hook, Berrylands and Kingston Vale among others. 9 of the borough's 10 postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough or with Surrey, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: It can be. The A3 runs through the borough at dual carriageway speed with slip roads either side, and local routes use it. Any instructor teaching here will have you driving it well before test day, built up to rather than dropped into.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The residential streets around Berrylands and Coombe are quiet and wide, and instructors will usually start there before going anywhere near the town centre.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: Yes. Say refresher when you book. The one-way system and A3 confidence are the two most common requests here. Book 2-hour sessions with door-to-door pickup across these postcodes.

For Kingston upon Thames (KT1, KT2 & KT3) learners: 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. Kingston suits it: the A3 and the M25 are both close, and the Surrey lanes give you the rural module.