Hong Kong School of Motoring, Sha Tin Transport Department Driving Test Routes

This is a Transport Department test centre inside a TD designated driving school (香港駕駛學院(沙田)內的運輸署駕駛考試中心), on Shatin Wai Road, Siu Lek Yuen. It tests candidates who learn with the school. Learners with private driving instructors are tested at the government centres instead. The centre's TD phone number is 2636 1721.

TD's guide says students of government designated driving schools can take the road test in stages: Part B (manoeuvres) first, then Part C (driving on the road) once Part B is passed. Other candidates take Part B and Part C together as a combined test. Either way you must pass the written test (Part A) first.

TD's Monthly Traffic and Transport Digest (table 5.3b) gave these waits for the Hong Kong School of Motoring's Sha Tin centre at the end of August 2026: 39 days for a private car Part B test, 91 days for Part C and 150 days for a combined test. The school also handles its own enquiries about waiting times.

TD reports results for the Hong Kong School of Motoring as a whole, not for the Sha Tin centre alone. From September 2025 to August 2026 (Monthly Traffic and Transport Digest table 5.2), its private car Part C tests in the staged course had 855 passes from 1,358 tests, about 63%, and its private car combined tests 4,148 passes from 10,876, about 38%.

No. TD's Driving Services Section designs road test routes and examiners may change them for road works or congestion. TD does not publish them. Routes on AUDrive come only from learners who took their test at the centre, and none has been contributed for this centre yet.

Apply for a driving test with form TD82 or online, and for a learner's driving licence when you are ready to start lessons. Pass the written test (Part A) on the Road Users' Code, then the road test, which covers Part B (manoeuvres) and Part C (driving on the road). After passing you apply for a probationary driving licence and complete a 12-month probationary period before you can apply for a full licence. You must be 18 or over and physically fit to drive.

Only with a licensed driving instructor. TD's learner's licence conditions say a learner may not drive unless accompanied by a holder of a valid driving instructor's licence for that class of vehicle, so a friend or relative with a full licence cannot supervise you. The car must have a handbrake the instructor can reach and a white L plate with a red L and the Chinese character 學 at the front and rear. You can learn with a private driving instructor or at a TD designated driving school.

Under the conditions of the learner's driving licence, learners may drive Monday to Friday 6:00am to 7:30am, 9:30am to 4:30pm and 7:30pm to 11:30pm; Saturday 6:00am to 7:30am and 9:30am to 11:30pm; Sundays and public holidays 6:00am to 11:30pm. In other words, no learning in the weekday morning and evening peaks or on Saturday morning before 9:30am. Some roads are also closed to learners by traffic signs, at set times or all day, so watch for them near test centres.

Yes. TD told the Wan Chai District Council in April 2026 that signs ban learner vehicles at set times or all day around the junctions of Broadwood Road, Tai Hang Road and Link Road near the Happy Valley centre. TD told the Kowloon City District Council in 2024 that King Tak Street in Ho Man Tin has all-day no-learner-driving signs and that it works with the police on enforcement. TD also asks instructors to start learners somewhere quiet before practising near a test centre.

Private car tests can be applied for online through GovHK's Online Booking for Driving Tests (www.gov.hk/drivingtest), which needs an iAM Smart+ account with digital signing or a personal digital certificate. You can also send form TD82 by post to the Kowloon Licensing Office, or hand it in at the Hong Kong or Kowloon Licensing Office. On TD82 you choose a road test region: Hong Kong Island, or Kowloon and New Territories. TD's driving test enquiry line is 2771 7723.

TD's fee table TD341 (revision 2/2026) lists HK$510 for the driving test, HK$548 for a learner's driving licence, HK$90 for a new probationary driving licence and HK$900 for a full driving licence for applicants aged 60 or below. If you fail, the test form becomes invalid and you pay for a new one when you apply again. Check TD341 on the TD website before paying, as fees change.

At the end of August 2026, TD's Monthly Traffic and Transport Digest (table 5.3a) gave a waiting time of 147 days for a private car combined test at government centres in the Hong Kong Island region and 140 days in the Kowloon and New Territories region. Candidates of designated driving schools have separate waiting times set by each school. TD's online waiting time enquiry is updated daily, so check it when you apply.

Part A is a computerised test at TD's written test centre in the Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices. You answer 20 multiple-choice questions, each with three options, in 20 minutes, and need 16 or more correct to pass. Questions come mainly from the Road Users' Code plus recent changes to traffic law and rules. Bring your identity document and appointment letter, and switch off phones and smart watches before entering.

TD's Guide to Private Car and Light Goods Vehicle Driving Test lists the manoeuvres: moving off, keeping a safe distance, overtaking and lane choice, left and right turns, reversing into a parking space in one attempt (S or L shape), a three-point turnabout in a narrow road, stopping and starting on a slope, correct signals, and responding to traffic signs, lights and controllers. Repeated steering while stationary is not accepted in the parking and turnabout manoeuvres. Keep to the left lane unless turning or overtaking.

The examiner records minor and serious mistakes on an electronic test form. A serious mistake, one that causes direct danger, breaks the law or shows control below the required standard, means a fail. Three or more minor mistakes against the same item also add up to a serious mistake. The examiner can end the test early for dangerous driving. After the test you receive form TD553 with your mistakes and result.

No. TD's guide says examiners generally follow routes designed by TD's Driving Services Section, and may change or adjust a route for road works or congestion. TD does not publish the routes. In 2022 the government said the routes at Happy Valley and So Kon Po had been in use for more than 10 years and that different routes are used depending on traffic. Routes on AUDrive come only from learners who took their test at the centre.

Bring your test appointment letter, your Hong Kong Identity Card (or the identity document registered with TD), your learner's driving licence, a printed copy of the test car's third party insurance certificate covering driving tests, and a printed copy of its Vehicle Licensing Notice. Electronic copies are not accepted. Before the test you must read a registration mark at 23 metres. The car may not have driver assistance systems or equipment that TD has not approved for the test.

Yes. If you pass in an automatic, your licence carries code A next to the vehicle class and only lets you drive automatics of that class. To lift it you must take Parts B and C again in a manual car, after first applying to the Driving Test Appointment Office. If you passed one part of the test in an automatic, you will get an automatic-only licence even if you take the remaining part in a manual.

From September 2025 to August 2026, TD's Monthly Traffic and Transport Digest (table 5.2, via DATA.GOV.HK) records 5,934 passes from 19,009 private car combined tests at government test centres, about 31%. TD publishes this figure for all government centres together, not for each centre. Students of designated driving schools take their road test in stages at the school, and their figures are reported separately by school.

If you fail the road test, you can make a fresh application from the 4th working day after the test. If you passed one part of a combined test (Part B or Part C), that result is kept and you only retake the part you failed. Any fail invalidates the test form, so you buy a new one. Road test results and probationary licence applications must be used within 3 years of passing.

After passing you hold a probationary licence for at least 12 months. You must show P plates at the front and rear (or on the left of the windscreen), may not exceed 70 km/h even where the limit is higher, and may not use the offside lane of expressways with three or more lanes. A minor offence extends the period by 6 months; a serious offence, or two minor ones, cancels the licence.

Possibly. TD can directly issue a full licence without a test if your full licence comes from a country or place listed in Schedule 4 of Cap. 374B (Mainland China is included), is valid or expired for no more than 3 years, was obtained by passing a test there, and you meet one of three conditions: 6 months' residence when it was issued, held for 5 years, or a passport from that place. Since 16 March 2026 you must book a direct issue appointment online first.

If Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above, an Extreme Conditions announcement or a Black Rainstorm warning is in force before service hours and lowered after 7:00am, road tests before 1:00pm are cancelled; if still in force at 11:30am, afternoon road tests are also cancelled. In rain or slippery conditions you must still attend, and the examiner decides whether to test. TD sends a new appointment; call 2771 7723 if nothing arrives within 2 weeks.