testcentreNational picture · April 2024 - March 2025
How Britain does on the driving test
Drawn from 1,817,770 car tests last year across 297 centres. Every figure has a plain explanation and links to the dataset it came from.
48.6%
Just under half of all car tests end in a pass. The line to judge any centre against.
1.82m
Car tests conducted across all 297 centres in April 2024 - March 2025.
1.9 points
Men pass at 49.5%, women at 47.6%. A steady, nationwide pattern.
43.9%
Automatic tests pass a little less often than manual, and are rising fast in number.
Pass rate since 2007
Remarkably flat over nearly two decades, hovering in the mid-to-high forties. The dip near 2020 is the pandemic, when only a small number of urgent tests ran. Toggle the male and female layers to compare.
Dig into the detail
Three focused breakdowns, each leading with its headline figure and the full picture behind it.