Take your annual MOT tester training and assessment

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Overview

If you’re already an MOT tester, you must complete training and pass an assessment between April and March every year.

Your MOT tester status will be suspended if you do not pass the annual assessment by 31 March.

There’s different guidance to become an MOT tester for the first time.

If you’re a new tester, you do not need to record annual training or complete the annual assessment in the year that you pass your demonstration test. After the first year, you will need to record annual training and complete the annual assessment between April and March of the following year.

What you need to do

  1. Do at least 3 hours of MOT tester training each year for each group you test.

  2. Record your training on the MOT testing service.

  3. Book and take your assessment.

  4. Check your assessment provider has uploaded your assessment results.

If you pass the assessment, you’ll get a certificate. You’ll find this in the ‘Annual assessment certificates’ section of your MOT testing service profile. Contact your assessment provider if your results have not been recorded correctly.

If a pass result has not been uploaded by the end of the training year, your MOT tester status will be suspended.