UK driving test centres with the highest and lowest pass rates revealed

The test centers where you are most likely to fail or pass your practical exam in England have been revealed and the differences in pass rates are huge.

According to data on pass rates from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, 1.2 million people took their test between April and December 2022 and only 48% of them passed.

The test center with the lowest success rate in the entire country is the Speke facility in Liverpool.

From April to December 2022, 6209 learner drivers took a test, of which only 1684 passed the test.

This gave the center a success rate of only 27.1%.

See how your nearest test center fared with our interactive map below.

These are the easiest and most difficult places to pass your driving test in England, according to the DVSA

In contrast, the center with the highest success rate in England was the Kendal center on Oxenholme Road.

The Cumbria facility had a 67.4% pass rate over the same period, with 874 drivers passing their test out of 1,242 who attempted it.

Other centers where people struggled to pass their test were Erith (32.2%) Wolverhampton (35.3%) and Crawley (35.6%).

Those who fail their driving test will have to wait quite a while to reflect on their frustrations.

Earlier this month, a shocking The Mail on Sunday inquiry into ‘Britain’s backlog’ revealed that learner drivers wait an average of 15.5 weeks for a test appointment

This is compared to just six weeks before the pandemic.

And if you’re under the age of 25 when you pass, you may not be allowed to carry young passengers with a “graduated driver’s license” to avoid peer pressure deaths.

Road safety organization Brake says drivers of that age are four times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident if they drive with others – claiming peer pressure leads young drivers to show off.

New restrictions would lead to amendments to the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act to ban passengers under the age of 25 in the driver’s first year or six months.

The law already prohibits drivers if they earn six points in their first two years of driving.

It is supported by Support for Victims of Road Crashes – a consultancy for the Department of Transport – and Jo Shiner, head of the National Police Chief’s Council Roads Policing.

Students have to wait endlessly for driving tests because of a huge backlog. Pictured: DVLA building in Swansea, Wales

Shiner has even suggested putting technology in new drivers’ cars to highlight weaknesses in their driving style.

This will be discussed in a meeting on 16 May.

Proposed schemes to place additional restrictions on newly qualified drivers were rejected in January 2022, which would have brought a curfew and restrictions on passengers in the car. These were canceled by the Department of Transport due to the need to use cars for work.

According to the RAC, government statistics show that as many as a quarter of new drivers are involved in accidents during their first two years on the road.

And in 2021, 926 people were killed or seriously injured in crashes involving a young driver.

In documentary evidence submitted to the Transport Select Committee’s inquiry into young and novice drivers in 2020, Ms Huddleston added: ‘I strongly believe that a graduated driving license should be introduced in the UK to reduce the colossal number of deaths and serious injuries in ‘Young and novice drivers’ and their passengers between the ages of 17 and 25.

‘Traffic deaths are the forgotten epidemic. They kill more young people in the UK than anything else.

“Death from traffic accidents is not covered in the same way that illness and disease often do. That is astonishing for people who work in Traffic Safety.’