Mitcham Driving School

Mitcham Driving School
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  • Lessons Near the Mitcham Test Centre


  • VicRoads-Accredited Instructors


  • 5.0 Google Rating from 230+ Learners


  • Lesson + Test Packages from $220


  • Free Pickup from Your Mitcham Address

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A P-Plate Pass Begins With Test Preparation in Mitcham

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Learner driver practising road skills with a qualified instructor

Learner driver checking mirrors before pulling out

Driving lesson in progress with a Mitcham Driving School instructor

Instructor reviewing road rules with a learner driver

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Driving Test
Preparation in Mitcham

Driving instructor guiding a learner during a lesson at Mitcham Driving School

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— GOOGLE REVIEWS · 5.0

What Our Mitcham Learners Are Saying

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5.0

Very experienced driving instructor Brother Rahman, very polite and friendly. Insights given prior to my Overseas Licence Drive Test were very professional and precise. I was able to get my Australian Drivers Licence in just an hour of practical. Thank you Mitcham Driving School.


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SHIRAZ SUHAYL ALI

June 5, 2025

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5.0

very helpful, polite and welcoming. has good tips to help you.


Emily Henry

Emily Henry

June 5, 2025

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I passed first try!


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Jashith Kamboj (Jash)

June 4, 2025

Meet your driving test instructors

Instructors who know the Mitcham test

Test preparation at Mitcham Driving School is always taught by one of our accredited instructors. Coaching learners up to VicRoads drive test standard is weekly work for us, which lets you rehearse exactly the habits a testing officer wants to see.

Nazrul Islam(Naz)

Founder & Lead Instructor
★★★★★
Experience: 25 years
Test preparation with Naz draws on 25 years of teaching and on his role as the founder who started Mitcham Driving School. Coming from education, he sees how each learner takes things in before a drive test, and his test lessons stay calm and structured, and build confidence. Naz prepares every test candidate using his 3F approach to test lessons: Fair, Flexible and Friendly.
  • ✓University degree: BSc (Hons) Agriculture, awarded by Bangladesh Agricultural University
  • ✓Nordic Agricultural College Diploma, Denmark
  • ✓VDIA membership · VicRoads-accredited instructor

Dilini De Silva Godellawatta(Dil)

Driving Instructor
★★★★★
Experience: 5 years
Dil prepares test candidates with a psychologist's eye. Her qualifications cover child & educational psychology as well as driving instruction, and Sri Lanka is where she is originally from. Her teaching background is over a decade long, spanning EYFS, primary and IB systems, and her driving instruction, automatic as well as manual, adds 5 years. Ahead of a drive test, her calm and patient approach is based on how learners really develop confidence and skill for the test.
  • ✓Applied Psychology (Educational & Child), an MSc from Coventry University
  • ✓Cardiff Metropolitan University graduate, BA Educational Studies
  • ✓Holds AQF Level 7 · test lessons in manual & automatic cars

Md Abdul Kader

Driving Instructor
★★★★★
Since 2022
For test preparation, Abdul Kader gives structured, friendly lessons. They are shaped by his years as a researcher and teacher, across university and vocational settings alike. He is calm with learners at every pace and from every background. His focus is test-day readiness together with safe driving habits that stay with you for life.
  • ✓Japan (2011): PhD in Biological Sciences
  • ✓Transport & Logistics Certificate IV (2022), Box Hill Institute
  • ✓Test lessons include pickup & drop-off

Why learners prepare with us

Why learners prepare for their test with us

Test candidates and other learners have left 230+ Google reviews, and Mitcham Driving School’s rating stands at 5.0 there. A VDIA-member instructor, accredited by VicRoads, takes every test preparation lesson. Below is what people getting ready for a test rate most highly.

5.0
Average on Google

Drawn from 230+ Google reviews, all verified, by learners in eastern Melbourne and Mitcham.

VDIA
Accredited

Test preparation instructors hold VicRoads accreditation and current VDIA membership, short for Victorian Driving Instructors Association.

Local
Test Centre

Practice takes place on roads surrounding Heatherdale Road's Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre.

Mock
Test Available

Book a mock driving test before test day to find out exactly what still needs work.

Driving instructor teaching a female learner in a dual-control car

— ABOUT US

What Does Driving Test Preparation Include?

Driving test preparation is a 60-minute lesson, taught one-on-one, with a single aim: a pass on your VicRoads drive test. Test practice happens near Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre. Your test car has dual controls, and VicRoads has accredited the instructor beside you. Test candidates get free pickup at Mitcham VIC 3132 addresses.

On test day, the testing officer runs a pre-drive check first, where you show the car’s controls, and the on-road drive comes next. Before sitting the test you need to be aged at least 18, with a Hazard Perception Test pass already behind you. Test candidates under 21, on top of that, need a log showing 120 supervised driving hours, 20 of them at night (VicRoads).



  • Pre-drive check practice


  • Test manoeuvres and observation


  • Roads around the test centre



  • Free pickup across Mitcham VIC 3132


  • Modern dual control cars


  • Honest test-readiness feedback

— THE VICROADS DRIVE TEST

How the VicRoads Drive Test Works

Allow about 30 minutes for the drive test, which is made up of a pre-drive check plus two on-road parts. Each of those test steps is rehearsed in our preparation lessons, on roads surrounding Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre.

1

Pre-drive check

Before you drive, you show the testing officer the indicators, brake lights, horn, headlights (high and low beam), hazard lights, and washers and wipers. You also point out the handbrake and demisters, then start the engine.

2

Part one: 5–10 minutes

Quieter roads. You turn left and right, change lanes, and do a reverse park or three-point turn. You then pull over while the officer scores this part. You must pass it to continue.

3

Part two: about 20 minutes

Busier roads. You are assessed turning at different intersections, changing lanes, merging with traffic, and driving on straight and curved roads.

4

Result and feedback

Back at the VicRoads centre, you are told whether you passed and which parts of your driving need work. The whole test takes about 30 minutes.

On the day: the testing officer gives short, clear directions like “At the next street, turn right.” If you are unsure, ask for the direction to be repeated. A driving instructor may sit in the front passenger seat of a dual control car but cannot speak to you or help during the test.

Source: VicRoads, What you need to know about your Drive Test and Transport Victoria. Check VicRoads for the latest rules before your test.

— HOW YOU’RE MARKED

Immediate Fails vs Critical Errors

The testing officer awards points for nine safe driving skills, and penalises two kinds of mistake. An immediate termination ends the test on the spot. Too many critical errors also mean a fail. Every lesson we run checks for both.

You earn points for
Observation: mirrors and head checksSignals: 3+ seconds, 5+ seconds from the kerbGap selection: first safe gapSpeed choice: close to, never over, the limitFollowing distance: 2+ secondsLateral position: correct lane and safe pathStop position: close to, not over, the lineReverse park or three-point turnControl: smooth, no stalling, no coasting 50+ m
Test stopped

Immediate Termination

You fail on the spot if you put anyone at immediate risk. For example, if you:

  • ✕Collide with another vehicle or mount the kerb while driving
  • ✕Go 5 km/h or more over the speed limit at any time
  • ✕Go over the limit by any amount for 5 seconds or more
  • ✕Go over the limit at all in an operating school zone
  • ✕Fail to give way, signal or check, so someone else has to take action
  • ✕Stop the car in a dangerous position
  • ✕Drive through a Stop sign or red light
  • ✕Disobey the testing officer or Victoria Police
  • ✕Need verbal or physical help from the instructor or officer
  • ✕Do anything else that creates an unsafe situation
Too many = fail

Critical Errors

Recorded when something could be unsafe but is not an immediate danger. For example, if you:

  • !Drive too slowly, or don't move off when it is safe
  • !Miss a check for other road users (no one has to react)
  • !Miss a signal (no one has to react)
  • !Block a pedestrian crossing with no pedestrians affected
  • !Mount the kerb with one wheel when parking
  • !Stall the car
  • !Roll through a Stop sign without stopping fully
  • !Do something else potentially unsafe, with no immediate risk

Source: VicRoads, What you need to know about your Drive Test and Transport Victoria. Check VicRoads for the latest rules before your test.

— PRICING

How Much Does Driving Test Preparation in Mitcham Cost?

Test preparation is charged at $69 for an hour in an automatic, $85 for an hour in a manual. Our Lesson + Test package bundles a 60-minute lesson as a warm-up with the use of our test car, at $220 if you test in an automatic, $285 if in a manual. Test candidates with a Mitcham VIC 3132 pickup address pay nothing for pickup.

Automatic Driving Lessons

Auto

Single Lesson

$69/ per hour

Lesson + Test

$220

Test Only

$190

Manual Driving Lessons

Manual

Single Lesson

$85/ per hour

Lesson + Test

$285

Test Only

$220

— WHAT IS INCLUDED

What Every Test Preparation Lesson Includes

Eight things, always the same, are built into each Mitcham test preparation lesson, from a one-off session to a full Lesson + Test package.

One-on-One Test Practice, 60 Minutes

A test preparation lesson runs sixty minutes in full, one instructor to one learner. The whole hour is spent on what test day demands of you.

Dual Control Test Cars

Test lessons use Victorian-registered cars with dual controls, including a brake the instructor can reach. On a Test Only or a Lesson + Test package, you sit the drive test in that same car.

Test Instructors Accredited by VicRoads

Test preparation is taught only by instructors with current VicRoads authorisation, known as a Driving Instructor Authority, plus VDIA membership and an up-to-date Working with Children Check.

Mitcham Pickup, Free for Test Lessons

For test lessons we come to your school, workplace or home. That covers all of Mitcham plus each Whitehorse council suburb beside it. We also drive you back when the test lesson ends, and that costs nothing more.

Driving the Test Centre Roads

Test lessons take in Heatherdale Road, home of Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre, and its surrounding roads. Canterbury Road, Mitcham Road and Whitehorse Road are part of test practice too.

Honest Test-Readiness Tracking

Each test lesson closes with your instructor's straight feedback: the skills that improved, the ones needing work, and a likely date for being drive-test ready. Test candidates never get false promises.

Test Weak Spots First

We identify whichever skills are likeliest to cost points in the test, and those get fixed first in your lesson time.

Warm-Up Option on Test Day

Choose a Lesson + Test package and, one hour before your test slot, we collect you for 60 minutes of warm-up driving.

Book your driving test preparation in Mitcham

To book a driving test preparation lesson in Mitcham, test candidates complete one short form. We ask for no deposit and confirm your test lesson within the same business day. You get a dual control car, free Mitcham address pickup and an instructor who is VicRoads-accredited.



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— WHY CHOOSE?

Why Mitcham Learners Prepare
for Their Test With Us

01

Local Test Centre Knowledge

Our instructors teach around the Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre every week. Your final lessons are planned on the kinds of roads, intersections and traffic you will meet on test day.

02

VicRoads-Accredited Instructors

Test preparation instructors are VDIA members (Victorian Driving Instructors Association). Each test instructor’s Driving Instructor Authority, issued by VicRoads, is current, and so is each instructor’s Working with Children Check.

03

Pre-Drive Check Practice

Your test begins while the car is still parked. Together we run through the pre-drive check, covering controls such as wipers, indicators and lights, until you can do it without thinking.

04

Manoeuvres Until They Are Easy

We practise low-speed manoeuvres such as reverse parallel parking and three-point turns until you can do them calmly and accurately.

05

Fixing Common Mistakes

Common test mistakes include missed head checks, rolling stops, poor gap selection and speed in school zones. We watch for them in every lesson.

06

Calm Test-Day Routine

On a Lesson + Test package, test day starts with pickup an hour early. Then comes 60 minutes of warm-up driving, and after the test result comes through we take you home.

07

Honest Readiness Feedback

You get a straight answer on whether to sit the test yet and on what needs more work. We will not give you false promises.

08

Mock Test Option

Want to know where you stand? Book a mock driving test that follows the VicRoads test format, with detailed feedback afterwards.

— TEST DAY CHECKLIST

VicRoads Drive Test Day: What to Bring

Missing one document can cost you your test and six weeks. Check both lists the night before.

Take These With You

  • ✓Victorian learner permit card (must be current)
  • ✓A receipt for the test, or the appointment number
  • ✓Under 21? Bring a Learner Log Book that is correctly filled in
  • ✓If it applies: proof of an overseas licence, with either an International Driving Permit or an English translation
  • ✓No photo on your permit? Then full evidence of identity
  • ✓A way to pay for your licence
  • ✓Contact lenses or glasses if you drive with them

What the Test Car Needs

  • ✓Clean, roadworthy and registered
  • ✓Fitted with L plates
  • ✓A mirror on the passenger side as well as the driver side
  • ✓Seatbelts for everyone on board and demisters in working order
  • ✓A speedometer visible to the testing officer
  • ✓Headlights on low beam for the whole test
  • ✓A handbrake, centrally mounted, that the passenger is able to reach (a dual control test car with its instructor in the front seat is exempt)
  • ✓For solo tests, no park brake that is electric or foot-operated
  • ✓A manual transmission, if a manual licence is your goal

Avoid the car checklist: test in our own dual control car →

Protect your booking: VicRoads will refuse to run the test if you turn up late, cannot prove who you are, or bring a Learner Log Book that is not correctly filled in. You do not get your fees back, and the wait before you can sit it is at least six weeks.

Source: VicRoads, What you need to know about your Drive Test and Transport Victoria. Before your test, look up the current rules on VicRoads.

— FAQ

Popular Questions

Mitcham test candidates raise these questions with us most often in the lead-up to a VicRoads drive test.

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Every test candidate must be aged at least 18, hold a Hazard Perception Test pass, and have had their learner permit for the minimum period. Test candidates under 21, on top of that, need 120 logged hours of supervised driving, 20 of which are at night.

Under 21, the minimum is 12 months. Aged 21 to under 25, it drops to 6 months. At 25 or older you only need 3 months.

First comes a pre-drive check, where you show you know the car’s controls. After that you head out on the road. The testing officer tells you where to go and scores how safely you are driving.

A critical error is a mistake that could be unsafe but is not an immediate danger, such as stalling, missing a head check or signal when no one has to react, or rolling through a Stop sign. You will fail if you make too many.

Putting anybody at immediate risk ends the test on the spot, and that is a fail. It happens if you drive 5 km/h, or anything more, above the limit, exceed the limit by any amount inside a school zone that is operating, drive through a red light or Stop sign, mount the kerb while driving, or need help from the testing officer or instructor.

Our test candidates mostly book into Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre for the drive test. It is located at 93A Heatherdale Road in Ringwood. VicRoads operates the test centre by appointment from 8.30am until 4.30pm on weekdays, Monday to Friday.

That depends on your level right now. One or two lessons to polish things up is enough for some learners, and others take more. After the first test lesson your instructor gives an honest count of the lessons still needed.

Yes. Book Test Only ($190 for automatic, $220 for manual) and you sit the drive test using our car. Book Lesson + Test ($220 for automatic, $285 for manual) and you also get 60 minutes of warm-up lesson time, with pickup one hour prior to the test.

On test day, take your learner permit, plus any contact lenses or glasses you drive with. Under 21, you also need your completed logbook. It is worth reading your VicRoads booking confirmation in case something else is required.

A mock test is a good idea if your test is one to two weeks away, or if you have failed before. It shows exactly what still needs work.

Yes, on a Lesson + Test package. Test-day pickup happens an hour before the test begins, at your Mitcham address, and we bring you home after the testing officer gives your result.

— VICROADS TEST CENTRE

The Mitcham VicRoads Test Centre

The drive test for most Mitcham learners is held in Ringwood, at Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre. Your last test lessons are driven around whichever centre you have booked.

MITCHAM TIC
Used for most of our tests

Mitcham Testing and Inspection Centre

The Mitcham area’s drive test centre, operated by VicRoads. Test candidates go to 93A Heatherdale Road, Ringwood. Test bookings are by appointment only: learner permit tests, driver licence tests, and also the Hazard Perception Test.

Test address: Heatherdale Rd, Ringwood
Test hours: 8.30am–4.30pm, Mon–Fri

Drive test requirements to meet first

Victoria's Graduated Licensing System sets requirements that come ahead of any practical drive test. Test candidates hold a learner permit for the minimum time and need a Hazard Perception Test pass. Those under 21, in addition, log 120 supervised driving hours.

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Minimum P licence age in years
120
Supervised hours, under 21 only
20
Night hours within that total
HPT
Test passed before any drive test

— GET IN TOUCH

Free Pickup at Your
Doorstep in Mitcham

Test candidates do not have to come to us at all. Mitcham Driving School runs from Mitcham VIC, and test preparation lessons starting at a Mitcham address get free pickup. A test lesson can begin at school, at work or at home, across Mitcham and into the Whitehorse council area next to it.

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