Revealed: The easiest and hardest places in the UK to pass your driving test
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New data has revealed the easiest and hardest places in the UK to pass your driving test, making the exam feel like somewhat of a 'postcode lottery'. Figures obtained by The Telegraph under Freedom of Information (FoI) rules revealed the examiners with the highest and lowest pass rates at centres across the UK over two three-month periods in 2023 and 2024.
![[The average pass rate in the UK sits at around 50 per cent]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/10/94115651-14287199-image-a-2_1736938521574.jpg)
The official figures from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) highlighted that learner drivers are 15 times more likely to be failed by some examiners than others. In 2023, the highest examiner pass rate was recorded at Ashfield in Nottinghamshire at 91.7 per cent.
This meant the marker was 15 times more likely to pass candidates than those who took the test at Scunthorpe - where one examiner only gave licenses to 6 per cent of hopefuls. The datat also showed that the most lenient testers will pass nine in 10 of their candidates, while critical examiners pass fewer than one in 10.
Wide disparities were also noticed within the same centres. For instance, the lowest examiner pass rate of 8 per cent was recorded at the Bredbury test centre in Manchester, where the most forgiving examiner handed licenses out to nearly 67 per cent of candidates.
Similarly at Wrexham in Wales, the lowest pass rate was 16.7 while another examiner at the same centre was found to have a 76.2 per cent clearance rare - with a gap of nearly 60 percentage points. Other centres where the lowest pass rate on record was less than 20 per cent included Goodmayes in London and Glasgow in Scotland (both 16.7 per cent), as well as Borehamwood (18.8 per cent).
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