Its unreasonably difficult to book a driving test isn't it?

[mcmillion]

Covid aside (as obviously that will make appointments more scarce), the system for booking a driving test is terrible. It asks "Enter a date you would like", but its not possible to answer "as soon as possible" - you have to specify an actual date..Then you put in your postcode, and it lists centres in distance order. If all the centres reasonably close to you say "No dates found", it means that there are no tests around the date you specified, but it doesn't tell you when the next available date is for each centre. So then you have to use the back button to click back through the pages to the date field and try a later date. Its ridiculous - it would be much better if you could first specify convenient centres, then be told the next available date for each.

Or am I missing something?

When you make the booking choose the 'put test on hold' option, and pay. They'll then contact you with a date. I did it last year and the first date offered was the following week! It's completely free.

@ElegantlyTouched

When you make the booking choose the 'put test on hold' option, and pay. They'll then contact you with a date. I did it last year and the first date offered was the following week! It's completely free.

The problem dd had wasn’t necessarily just the date. It was also the location. There were no slots at all, so it was impossible to make any sort of booking in the first place. That’s why she ended up using an app.

Book a test, buy the app. My DD booked a test 125 miles away, got a cancellation on the app to her local test centre for the following week .

Depends how fussy you are