ByPass - Eastleigh Driving Test Centre
The ByPass - Eastleigh driving test centre is located in Botley Bypass, England (SO30 2WB). 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
364 passed, 112 failed, 476 total
How ByPass - Eastleigh compares
ByPass - Eastleigh 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 ByPass - Eastleigh ranks among 152 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 ByPass - Eastleigh have remained broadly stable through recent reporting periods. Booking is achievable but not immediate: learners booking at ByPass - Eastleigh typically wait around 13 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
Tests offered at ByPass - Eastleigh
- HGV/LGV
For other test types at this location, search the DVSA centre finder with postcode SO30 2WB.
Accessibility & facilities
Parking, toilets, and disabled-access details vary by centre. Check the official DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode SO30 2WB, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
ByPass - Eastleigh is in Botley Bypass, Hampshire (SO30 2WB) and runs DVSA hgv/lgv tests for learners across the local area. The routes are the same fixed set every day; your examiner picks one without telling you which. 476 tests across 2022-23-2024-25. That's a small sample, and the single-period rates you'll see in the chart can swing wildly without much underlying change. The multi-year roll-up is the only stable read.
Out of 152 UK hgv/lgv test centres, ByPass - Eastleigh ranks 12, which lands it in the top ten percent nationally. The 76.5% pass rate is 27.8 points clear of the UK figure of 48.7%. For ByPass - Eastleigh the DVSA suppresses first-attempt figures in DRT122C. Smaller centres get rolled up; this is one of them. The overall pass rate above is the only published figure.
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 ByPass - Eastleigh
- Don't read a higher pass rate as a softer test. ByPass - Eastleigh'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.
- With 476 tests on record at ByPass - Eastleigh, the per-quarter pass rates are noisy. The trend chart on this page is more informative than any specific number from a specific period.
- Practising the test routes is the single thing that most reliably moves a candidate's pass odds. Most ADI instructors in Botley Bypass will have a working knowledge of which routes ByPass - Eastleigh uses.
- Don't pay third-party sites for booking access at ByPass - Eastleigh. Use gov.uk/book-driving-test directly; cancellations show up on the same booking flow.
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On the day at ByPass - Eastleigh
Aim to be at ByPass - Eastleigh ten minutes early. Because parking and waiting facilities are not the same at every DVSA centre, check the approach on the DVSA centre finder (postcode SO30 2WB) before the day. At moderate demand and about 13 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 Lee On The Solent is fully booked, ByPass - Eastleigh is the next closest centre, roughly 9 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 show-me plus one tell-me question, after which the examiner rides along for the drive. 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-three chance of 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.
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 76.5% of ByPass - Eastleigh'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.