The MOT station 43 www.aftermarketonline.net FEBRUARY 2026 Keep an electronic log to pass your annual training and assessment Each year we’ve seen a year-onyear increase in the number of testers completing their annual training and assessment on time. Let’s keep this trend going. So, to help you, we’ve put together the information you need to help you along the way. You need to complete three hours of training before you can take your annual assessment. The good news is you can do this however it suits you. You can spread it across the year or tackle it in chunks. If you’ve still got three hours to do, an hour a month between now and March will get you there comfortably. Don’t forget that some parts of your normal work can contribute to your training, such as, reading MOT special notices and the MOT inspection manuals to taking part in a group question and answer session with your colleagues. You must also study set topics for the year, based on what we’ve identified from our testing data in the MOT training and assessment guidance. To pass the annual training and assessment you must keep an electronic training log on your MTS profile. It needs to show the date of the training, how long the training session lasted, what topics you covered during the session, notes on what you did, how you did it and what you learnt. You will not be able to log the previous year’s training, so please make sure that you log all training before the year ends. It’s online, so you can do it from home, the workplace, or through your training provider. The test consists of 30 multiple-choice questions, and you have one hour to complete the assessment. We’ve provided a list of the types of questions you’ll be asked for Group A (class 1 & 2) and for Group B (class 3, 4, 5 & 7) to help you prepare before you take the assessment. DVSA choose the topics that evidence tells us should be most useful for testers. We use a range of evidence to that we gather through our work to make sure its relevant to testers. There are several factors that feed into this including problems identified by our vehicle examiners when carrying out their duties at MOT testing stations. You can use your notes and the MOT inspection manual during the assessment and the pass mark is 80%, but you can take it again if you don’t pass first time. When you complete your annual assessment, please check that the result is showing within the ‘view annual assessment certificates’ page of your profile on MTS. If it is not, contact your assessment provider. If you’re not able to complete your training and assessment on time or your annual assessment result is not showing within MTS before the deadline, you will lose your ability to test. If you then wish to regain your testing status, the details of how to do so are at ‘return to MOT testing’. From this year, authorised examiners and site managers will be able to download and check testers’ training logs and assessment certificates directly from MTS. This article is based on information published on the DVSA site (https:// mattersoftesting.blog.gov.uk/) which has full details and latest updates for testers. Top tips as assessment countdown is on Grant Thunder, an MOT testing service product specialist at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, offers advice as the March 31 deadline for MOT training and assessment looms
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