Theory test centres in the UK

Pass rates and what to expect, for every centre publishing usable figures. The questions are identical everywhere, so read these as information about candidates, not about buildings.

Centre	Pass rate	Tests conducted	Details
Aberdeen	48.1%	17,305	View
Aberystwyth	45.1%	2,226	View
Aldershot	45.8%	15,723	View
Alnwick	42.9%	1,319	View
Andover	48.6%	8,849	View
Axminster	47.6%	2,361	View
Aylesbury	46.3%	14,420	View
Ayr	44.9%	10,365	View
Bangor	42.9%	7,367	View
Barnstaple	45%	4,944	View
Barrow	42.6%	3,493	View
Berwick	42.2%	1,022	View
Bethnal Green	47.4%	38,873	View
Birmingham	40.4%	80,284	View
Blandford Forum	50.7%	1,745	View
Bodmin	48.8%	1,476	View
Bolton	41.5%	44,680	View
Boston	41.3%	6,477	View
Bournemouth	47.1%	15,317	View
Bradford	36.8%	41,920	View
Bridgend	42.8%	8,495	View
Brighton	51.4%	18,833	View
Bristol	48.9%	44,946	View
Builth Wells	46.3%	1,321	View
Burnley	45.5%	1,420	View
Bury St Edmunds	48%	7,931	View
Cambridge	53.2%	22,974	View
Canterbury	46.2%	26,182	View
Cardiff	45.3%	29,281	View
Carlisle	43.6%	6,775	View
Carmarthen	45.4%	1,821	View
Chatham	43.9%	32,365	View
Chelmsford	47.9%	20,957	View
Cheltenham	50.1%	8,854	View
Chester	47.6%	18,170	View
Chesterfield	45.2%	14,391	View
Chichester	47.2%	8,128	View
Colchester	45.9%	14,510	View
Corby	45.8%	11,286	View
Coventry	43.7%	47,766	View
Crewe	45.3%	14,500	View
Croydon	45.3%	43,824	View
Derby	44.2%	33,637	View
Doncaster	41.6%	25,240	View
Dudley	38.2%	28,873	View
Dumbarton	43%	4,235	View
Dumfries	45.1%	3,575	View
Dundee	48.2%	17,732	View
Eastbourne	44.2%	6,756	View
Edinburgh	50.6%	38,608	View
Elgin	43.3%	3,591	View
Exeter	51.5%	13,318	View
Fareham	47.7%	9,809	View
Frome	49%	11,312	View
Galashiels	49.1%	3,181	View
Glasgow	45%	71,187	View
Gloucester	44.4%	12,045	View
Grantham	48.9%	6,066	View
Greenock	44.2%	4,682	View
Grimsby	44.2%	9,081	View
Guildford	53.6%	16,307	View
Harrogate	51.3%	6,727	View
Hastings	45.3%	6,371	View
Haverfordwest	41.6%	4,523	View
Hereford	44.1%	8,079	View
Hertford	46.6%	23,806	View
Horley	46.3%	18,752	View
Huddersfield	42.6%	27,436	View
Hull	44.3%	20,406	View
Ilford	40.5%	89,742	View
Inverness	48.1%	5,779	View
Ipswich	46.2%	13,460	View
Kendal	49.2%	3,925	View
Kings Lynn	42%	7,862	View
Kingsbridge	48.4%	1,090	View
Launceston	46.4%	1,484	View
Leeds	44.2%	46,982	View
Leicester	39.7%	54,335	View
Lincoln	47%	12,551	View
Liverpool	45.4%	64,736	View
Lowestoft	42%	6,634	View
Luton	41.8%	35,766	View
Manchester	43.1%	85,425	View
Merthyr Tydfil	40.5%	13,544	View
Middlesbrough	42.2%	32,287	View
Milton Keynes	47.2%	28,820	View
Morden	51.4%	39,929	View
New Romney	46.1%	1,951	View
Newcastle	47%	43,141	View
Newport (Gwent)	41.1%	14,677	View
Newport (Isle of Wight)	47.3%	4,201	View
Newtown	40.9%	1,291	View
North Finchley	43.8%	62,447	View
Northallerton	47.9%	4,955	View
Northampton	43.1%	27,373	View
Norwich	48.6%	19,773	View
Nottingham	46.8%	40,722	View
Oxford	51%	20,939	View
Penzance	49%	1,701	View
Peterborough	42.8%	21,055	View
Plymouth	47.7%	12,759	View
Portsmouth	45.6%	15,672	View
Preston	44%	52,846	View
Reading	48.9%	33,341	View
Redditch	48%	15,698	View
Rhyl	41%	6,419	View
Royal Tunbridge Wells	53.6%	9,724	View
Salisbury	49.7%	6,594	View
Scarborough	46.1%	4,997	View
Sheffield	44.1%	43,049	View
Shrewsbury	46.3%	14,110	View
Sidcup	45.8%	40,098	View
Slough	41.6%	25,103	View
Southampton	46.3%	19,173	View
Southend-On-Sea	44.8%	22,489	View
Southwark	51.7%	66,976	View
Staines	45.4%	16,851	View
Stirling	46.8%	12,685	View
Stockport	45.5%	34,381	View
Stoke-on-Trent	43.1%	21,269	View
Stratford-upon-Avon	50.2%	11,665	View
Sunderland	43.8%	20,419	View
Sutton Coldfield	42.4%	24,308	View
Swansea	42.3%	20,541	View
Swindon	45%	19,823	View
Taunton	46%	9,699	View
Torquay	48.3%	7,199	View
Truro	49.4%	10,270	View
Uxbridge	38.2%	82,369	View
Watford	46.6%	35,207	View
Weymouth	43.3%	4,755	View
Wolverhampton	38.5%	35,159	View
Worcester	46.3%	15,572	View
Workington	41.5%	4,091	View
Worthing	46.1%	7,835	View
Wrexham	43.3%	8,281	View
Yeovil	46.8%	8,156	View
York	50.2%	12,201	View

Showing 138 of 138 centres.

Pass rate data from the DVSA driving and theory test data set, table DRT112A, published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Headline figures cover April 2024 to March 2025, the latest complete year. Centres conducting fewer than 1,000 tests a year are not listed, because small numbers produce percentages that are not statistically robust.

How to read this table

We publish it because it is public, and because most sites that publish it imply something it does not say.

The test is the same everywhere

Every centre draws from the same DVSA question bank and uses the same hazard perception clips and pass marks.

Rates follow candidates

Centres serving areas with more first-time-in-a-fortnight bookings show lower rates. That is preparation, not geography.

Volume matters

A centre sitting a few hundred tests a year can move several points on noise alone. Compare like with like, which is why each centre page lists centres of a similar size.

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