Berwick-On-Tweed Driving Test Centre
Berwick-On-Tweed in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England has a current pass rate of 53.8%, 5.1 points above the UK average of 48.7%. This page breaks down the multi-year trend, the first-time and gender pass rates, the waiting time and how it compares with the rest of the UK, all from the DVSA quarterly data.
DVSA data last updated July 2026
Berwick-On-Tweed sits in the top half of car pass rates nationally (Top 36%, rank #115 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Kelso, about 19.9 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 5.2K passed, 3.7K failed, 8.9K total
How Berwick-On-Tweed compares
At 5.1 points above the UK figure and ranked 115 of 323 in its category, Berwick-On-Tweed offers a modest but real edge, typically a product of its local road layout rather than the venue itself.
Where Berwick-On-Tweed ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Berwick-On-Tweed has given up 10 points since 2017-18 (64.3% then, 54.3% now); the low water mark was 52.6% in 2022-23.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Berwick-On-Tweed
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Berwick-On-Tweed in May 2026 had waited 21.4 weeks from booking to test day.
Official DVSA data, May 2026. The median is the time between booking and taking the test; for live availability use the DVSA booking service.
Centre details
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Tests offered at Berwick-On-Tweed
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Accessibility & facilities
Parking, toilets, and disabled-access details vary by centre. Check the official DVSA find a driving test centre tool, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Where do you actually take your car test if you book Berwick-On-Tweed? You start in Berwick-upon-Tweed, North East, and the examiner takes you through whatever mix of urban and outlying roads sits within a roughly twenty-minute drive of the centre. Over 2017-18-2024-25, 8.9K candidates sat tests here. The figures are statistically usable for centre-to-centre comparisons, which is most of what people land on this page wanting to do.
How does Berwick-On-Tweed compare nationally? 53.8% pass rate, #115 of 323 car centres in the DVSA network, 5.1 points clear of the UK average of 48.7%. The upper half of the country, in other words. First-time pass rate: 53.9%. UK average: 49%. Berwick-On-Tweed is 4.9 points to the good on first attempts, a meaningful gap, not a rounding artefact.
All figures shown are aggregated from the DVSA quarterly statistical release covering the most recent reporting periods available. Pass-rate calculations exclude tests cancelled by the candidate or examiner. Sample sizes and methodology are described in the source attribution at the foot of this page.
What learners should know about Berwick-On-Tweed
- Berwick-On-Tweed passes higher than the UK average, but the marking sheet is identical to every other DVSA centre. The bias is in the local road mix (less traffic, simpler junction geometry); the standard is national.
- Ask any instructor working Berwick-On-Tweed about the centre's "usual fails", they'll have two or three specific junctions or manoeuvres in mind. Practise those until they're automatic before your date.
- Book through the official DVSA service (gov.uk/book-driving-test). Third-party "fast-track" sites charge a premium for the same booking; the official DVSA booking service is free.
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On the day at Berwick-On-Tweed
Aim to be at Berwick-On-Tweed ten minutes early. Because parking and waiting facilities are not the same at every DVSA centre, check the approach on the DVSA centre finder before the day. At moderate demand and about 8 to 12 weeks' wait, securing a convenient date here is usually less of a scramble. The examiner needs to see your provisional photocard licence to begin, and the car you bring must be roadworthy, fitted with L plates and a working interior mirror. If Duns is fully booked, Berwick-On-Tweed is the next closest centre, roughly 13 miles away.
Expect about 40 minutes once you set off, to the same national DVSA script. It opens with an eyesight check at 20 metres and one tell-me question, after which the examiner rides along for the drive and asks one show-me question on the move. Around 20 minutes of that is independent driving, guided either by a sat nav the examiner provides or by road signs to a named destination, with one of four set manoeuvres and a one-in-seven chance of an emergency stop. The drive covers the local mix of road types within roughly a twenty-minute radius of the centre. Across DVSA marking nationally, the fault recorded most often on car tests is junctions - observation, worth drilling on the local routes before your date.
The result is given immediately when you get back. Whatever the outcome, the examiner reads through the marked faults and prints your DL25 feedback form; pass and they take the provisional licence to trigger your full one by post. The threshold is the national one, 15 driving faults at most and zero serious or dangerous, which 53.8% of Berwick-On-Tweed's candidates reach right now.
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Data: DVSA quarterly statistical release, released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRates.uk aggregates DVSA centre-level totals across reporting periods.
Edited by Vikas. DVSA data period: 2024-25.