Hardest driving test centres in the UK (2025/26)

These are the lowest car practical pass rates in April 2025 to March 2026, among centres that ran at least 300 tests. A low rate describes the roads and the candidates, not a different marking standard. Practice routes on this site are compiled, not official DVSA routes.

Source: DVSA DRT122A, Open Government Licence v3.0. Nearest centres are from GOV.UK, 15 October 2026.

The 25 hardest DVSA car test centres in 2025/26
Rank	Test centre	Region	Pass rate	Tests	3 nearest centres
1	Wolverhampton	West Midlands	34.3%	11,561	Wednesbury (35%, about 5 miles away) Dudley (45.2%, about 6 miles away) Featherstone (36.4%, about 7 miles away)
2	Wednesbury	West Midlands	35%	7,508	Wolverhampton (34.3%, about 5 miles away) Birmingham (Kingstanding) (48.5%, about 7 miles away) Dudley (45.2%, about 9 miles away)
3	Barking Tanner Street	London	36.3%	5,543
4	Dunfermline (Vine)	Scotland	36.4%	5,529	Kirkcaldy (50.9%, about 14 miles away) Grangemouth (50.7%, about 19 miles away) Stirling (43%, about 25 miles away)
5	Featherstone	West Midlands	36.4%	13,193	Wolverhampton (34.3%, about 6 miles away) Wednesbury (35%, about 9 miles away) Dudley (45.2%, about 13 miles away)
6	Gateshead	North East	37.5%	9,512	Gosforth (48.4%, about 10 miles away) Sunderland (51.1%, about 12 miles away) Durham (53.2%, about 19 miles away)
7	Liverpool Norris Green	North West	37.8%	13,472	Speke (Liverpool) (40.5%, about 8 miles away) Wallasey (54.3%, about 9 miles away) Widnes (42.7%, about 10 miles away)
8	Luton	East of England	39.2%	7,759	St Albans (50.7%, about 11 miles away) Stevenage (55.3%, about 13 miles away) Leighton Buzzard (Stanbridge Road) (49.9%, about 14 miles away)
9	Chingford London	London	39.9%	13,120	Loughton (London) (47%, about 3 miles away) Enfield (Brancroft Way) (46.1%, about 3 miles away) Wanstead (London) (44.4%, about 4 miles away)
10	Glasgow Shieldhall	Scotland	39.9%	7,019	Glasgow (Anniesland) (44.3%, about 4 miles away) Paisley (48.6%, about 7 miles away) Bishopbriggs (49.8%, about 11 miles away)
11	Coventry	West Midlands	40%	13,771	Nuneaton (53.2%, about 6 miles away) Hinckley (46.4%, about 10 miles away) Warwick (Wedgenock House) (48.5%, about 15 miles away)
12	Leicester Cannock Street	East Midlands	40.2%	14,198	Leicester (Wigston) (51.2%, about 9 miles away) Loughborough (42.3%, about 13 miles away) Melton Mowbray (69.7%, about 13 miles away)
13	Belvedere	London	40.5%	4,245	Erith (London) (51.6%, about 3 miles away) Sidcup (London) (58.7%, about 6 miles away) Bromley (London) (52.9%, about 9 miles away)
14	Liverpool Speke	North West	40.5%	8,159	Widnes (42.7%, about 6 miles away) Norris Green (Liverpool) (37.8%, about 9 miles away) Wallasey (54.3%, about 12 miles away)
15	Stoke-On-Trent Cobridge	West Midlands	40.6%	8,413
16	Camborne Cornwall	South West	40.6%	6,271	Penzance (46.5%, about 17 miles away) Bodmin (47.5%, about 33 miles away) Launceston (46.3%, about 56 miles away)
17	Plymouth	South West	40.7%	11,167	Launceston (46.3%, about 20 miles away) Bodmin (47.5%, about 29 miles away) Newton Abbot (53.8%, about 34 miles away)
18	Liverpool St Helens	North West	40.9%	14,174	Warrington (55.5%, about 9 miles away) Widnes (42.7%, about 9 miles away) Norris Green (Liverpool) (37.8%, about 11 miles away)
19	Cardigan	Wales	41%	1,192	Carmarthen (54.2%, about 28 miles away) Pembroke Dock (50.1%, about 37 miles away) Aberystwyth (Park Avenue) (55.1%, about 38 miles away)
20	Banbury	South East	41.3%	9,069	Warwick (Wedgenock House) (48.5%, about 23 miles away) Rugby (51.4%, about 26 miles away) Oxford (Cowley) (50.6%, about 28 miles away)
21	Greenford Horsenden Lane	London	41.4%	7,222	Southall (London) (44.8%, about 3 miles away) Yeading (London) (52.8%, about 4 miles away) Pinner (London) (49.7%, about 6 miles away)
22	Edinburgh Currie	Scotland	41.6%	6,202	Livingston (55.7%, about 11 miles away) Edinburgh (Musselburgh) (49.4%, about 15 miles away) Grangemouth (50.7%, about 23 miles away)
23	Newcastle-under-Lyme	West Midlands	41.6%	6,646	Stoke-on-Trent (Cobridge) (40.6%, about 4 miles away) Stafford (45.8%, about 15 miles away) Crewe (43.8%, about 15 miles away)
24	Greenock	Scotland	41.7%	3,547	Paisley (48.6%, about 17 miles away) Dumbarton (52.8%, about 20 miles away) Glasgow Shieldhall (39.9%, about 22 miles)
25	Hamilton	Scotland	42%	6,112	East Kilbride (57.7%, about 7 miles away) Glasgow (Baillieston) (47.4%, about 9 miles away) Airdrie (47.4%, about 10 miles away)

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