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Pass rates and exact test/pass counts come from DVSA table DRT122A, released 25 June 2026. We use the latest complete financial year in that release, April 2025 to March 2026. The earlier complete year is shown where a centre has a reliable name match.

The dataset covers Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales. It combines all attempts and all transmissions in the published car categories. It does not include Northern Ireland or live availability.

Locations come from the GOV.UK Places Manager driving-test-centres directory, version 238, updated 22 October 2026. We include the 325 locations explicitly listing car tests. Names are matched to statistics after removing case and punctuation differences.

There are 305 exact normalised matches. We do not invent aliases for the remaining locations. A missing rate can reflect a new or renamed centre or disclosure suppression. Historic rows without a current car-centre match are kept in the source data but not presented as current venues.

A pass rate is passes divided by conducted tests, expressed as a percentage to one decimal place. The official national figure is 1,000,043 passes from 1,998,621 tests: 50.0%. We check this independently against DVSA DRT121A and never average centre percentages.

The 317 published centre rows total 1,998,261 tests and 999,794 passes. The difference from the national count is 360 tests and 249 passes. National totals include centres omitted from the detailed breakdown for disclosure control, including centres where only one examiner conducted the category.

Samples below 100 tests are flagged. That threshold is our display convention, not an official statistical reliability guarantee. Historical rates do not predict an individual outcome.

A postcode lookup through Postcodes.io returns approximate coordinates. We calculate great-circle distance to the official published centre coordinate using the Haversine formula. These are straight-line miles, not driving distances or arrival instructions.

Nearest-first uses that distance. Highest-rate sorting compares the published rates within your selected filters, with test count breaking ties. We do not produce an unexplained “best centre” score. Choosing a centre should also account for familiarity, travel, instructor suitability and official booking rules.

On a centre page, we suggest up to three other current centres within 25 straight-line miles of that centre, with a strictly higher published rate in the same 2025–26 dataset and at least 100 recorded tests. We sort by rate, then nearest distance for equal rates. Missing rates and samples under 100 tests are excluded; the threshold is a display convention, not a statistical confidence test.

The difference is expressed in percentage points: a 60% rate compared with 50% is 10 percentage points higher. It does not mean your personal chance improves by that amount. If the original rate is missing, or no alternatives meet these conditions, we say so. The postcode finder’s quick sort respects your chosen distance, town and sample-size filters.

The current source snapshot was retrieved on 5 November 2026 UTC (4 November in the project owner’s timezone). Imports are reproducible from the source scripts, with source hashes and validation checks. Data is refreshed by the site maintainer when an updated official release is reviewed; this preview is not automatically polling DVSA.

Official names, locations and arrangements may change. Check the official centre finder and booking confirmation before travelling. A published location does not establish open slots or My First Pass instructor coverage.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: DVSA DRT122A/DRT121A and the GOV.UK Places Manager directory. My First Pass is independent of DVSA and is not endorsed by the agency.