Burgess Hill Driving Test Centre
The Burgess Hill driving test centre is located in Burgess Hill, England (RH15 9AG). Below are the official pass-rate statistics, multi-year trend, demographic breakdown, and how this centre compares against the UK average and its neighbours, all drawn from the DVSA quarterly statistical release.
Pass vs fail at a glance
18.5K passed, 6.8K failed, 25.3K total
How Burgess Hill compares
Burgess Hill performs well above the UK average. Learners passing here are more likely to pass than at most other UK centres, though this can also reflect quieter test routes and fewer challenging junctions.
Where Burgess Hill ranks among 194 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Most common faults at this centre
The fault categories most frequently recorded against learners on test. Knowing them lets you target practice on the things examiners are most likely to penalise.
- 1Junctions - observation10
- 2Mirrors - change direction9
- 3Move off - safely8
- 4Junctions - turning right7
- 5Response to signs - traffic lights6
Per-centre fault breakdowns are derived from the DVSA national fault distribution applied to centre-level test outcomes.
Pass rate by demographic
Estimated wait time and demand
Wait times at Burgess Hill have remained broadly stable through recent reporting periods. Booking is achievable but not immediate: learners booking at Burgess Hill typically wait around 17 weeks from booking to test day.
Wait time is estimated from regional demand patterns reported in the National Audit Office investigation into car driving test waiting times (Dec 2024) and the DVSA Despatch blog updates, combined with this centre's test volume. Real availability fluctuates with examiner staffing and cancellations, always check the official DVSA booking service for live slots.
Centre details
Address
Source: DVSA find a driving test centre (Open Government Licence v3.0), captured 2026-05-12.
Tests offered at Burgess Hill
- car
- motorcycle module 1 (off-road)
- motorcycle module 2 (on-road)
- ADI part 3
Accessibility & facilities
Parking and toilet details aren't included in DVSA's published feed. For the current on-site facilities, check the DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode RH15 9AG, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Burgess Hill sits in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, just inside the RH15 9AG postcode. It's a DVSA-run motorcycle module 2 test centre, and the routes from here work outward into the streets and arterial roads that learners from Burgess Hill tend to know already. Across 2017-18-2024-25 the DVSA recorded 25.3K tests at Burgess Hill. A solid mid-range sample, the data is reliable enough that the rank position below isn't an artefact of small numbers.
70.7% at Burgess Hill, against a UK motorcycle module 2 average of 48.7%. That puts the centre 22 points clear of the national figure and ranks it #94 of 194 motorcycle module 2 centres in the DVSA's network. First-attempt data for Burgess Hill is missing from the DVSA's DRT122C release. It's not a low number, it's no number, the centre is small enough that DVSA omits it from that particular table.
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 Burgess Hill
- Don't read a higher pass rate as a softer test. Burgess Hill's rate reflects route geography more than examiner discretion, DVSA marking is centrally trained. Prepare for the same fault categories you'd prepare for anywhere.
- Practising the test routes is the single thing that most reliably moves a candidate's pass odds. Most ADI instructors in Burgess Hill will have a working knowledge of which routes Burgess Hill uses.
- The only legitimate booking route is gov.uk. Anything calling itself a "test booking concierge" is reselling the same slots at a markup, the slots aren't theirs to control.
Other test centres nearby
On the day at Burgess Hill
Give yourself ten minutes in hand when you head to Burgess Hill, and look up where to park beforehand, facilities differ from one DVSA site to the next. The DVSA centre finder (postcode RH15 9AG) shows the exact location. This is a high-demand centre, modelled at roughly 17 weeks to a slot, so book as far ahead as you can and keep an eye on cancellations. You must have your provisional photocard licence on you, plus a car with L plates and a working interior mirror for the examiner.
The test runs for around 40 minutes and follows the same DVSA format used at every centre. The examiner checks your eyesight at 20 metres, asks one show-me and one tell-me question, then sits in for the drive. About 20 minutes of it is independent driving, either following a sat nav the examiner sets up or following road signs to a named place. You will do one of four set manoeuvres, and roughly one in three candidates is asked to perform an emergency stop. The drive covers the local mix of road types within roughly a twenty-minute radius of the centre. Across recent DVSA marking, the fault logged most often at this centre is junctions - observation, worth drilling on the local routes before your date.
You will know the result before you leave Burgess Hill. The examiner explains the faults marked on your DL25 feedback form and, if you have passed, takes the provisional licence so a full one can be posted out. The pass standard is fixed nationally, 15 driving faults maximum and zero serious or dangerous faults, and 70.7% of candidates here meet it under current DVSA marking.
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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.