Driving Mastery Research

Original analysis of official driving test data

We turn the statistics DVSA publishes into something a learner, an instructor or a reporter can actually read. Everything here is free to quote with credit, and every figure can be traced back to the government file it came from.

Report · 2025-26

The UK Driving Test Report 2026

Pass rates at 316 DVSA test centres, median waiting times, regional breakdowns, first-attempt and automatic analysis — with the methodology, the exclusions and the source checksums published alongside.

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Updated 2026-08-30 · Open Government Licence v3.0

Analysis by Driving Mastery using official Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency data, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DVSA does not endorse this analysis.