Driver Training Centre (Hastings) Driving Test Centre
The Driver Training Centre (Hastings) driving test centre is located in Hither Green, England (SE13 5HE). 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
46 passed, 23 failed, 69 total
How Driver Training Centre (Hastings) compares
Driver Training Centre (Hastings) 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 Driver Training Centre (Hastings) 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 Driver Training Centre (Hastings) have been lengthening as demand outpaces examiner capacity. Booking requires patience: learners booking at Driver Training Centre (Hastings) typically wait around 18 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 Driver Training Centre (Hastings)
- HGV/LGV
For other test types at this location, search the DVSA centre finder with postcode SE13 5HE.
Accessibility & facilities
Parking, toilets, and disabled-access details vary by centre. Check the official DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode SE13 5HE, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
If you've got a test booked at SE13 5HE, that's Driver Training Centre (Hastings) in Hither Green, Greater London. Examiners use a small set of fixed routes built around the roads immediately surrounding the centre. Be careful with the per-period numbers at Driver Training Centre (Hastings). With just 69 tests over 2024-25-2024-25, one or two unlucky candidates in a slow quarter can move the rate by five points.
Rank: #43 of 152. Pass rate: 66.7%. UK average: 48.7%. That's a upper half centre by the DVSA's own published figures. DVSA doesn't break out first-attempt figures for Driver Training Centre (Hastings) in DRT122C, so the split between first-time and retake pass rates isn't published for this centre.
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 Driver Training Centre (Hastings)
- Don't read a higher pass rate as a softer test. Driver Training Centre (Hastings)'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 69 tests on record at Driver Training Centre (Hastings), the per-quarter pass rates are noisy. The trend chart on this page is more informative than any specific number from a specific period.
- Ask any instructor working Driver Training Centre (Hastings) 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.
- Don't pay third-party sites for booking access at Driver Training Centre (Hastings). Use gov.uk/book-driving-test directly; cancellations show up on the same booking flow.
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On the day at Driver Training Centre (Hastings)
Aim to be at Driver Training Centre (Hastings) 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 SE13 5HE) before the day. Demand is high and the modelled wait is close to 18 weeks, so an early booking and a cancellation alert are both worth setting up. 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 Chevron (Flint) is fully booked, Driver Training Centre (Hastings) is the next closest centre, roughly 3 miles away.
Once underway the test takes around 40 minutes and is the same wherever you sit it. The examiner verifies your eyesight at 20 metres, puts one show-me and one tell-me question to you, then accompanies the drive. About 20 minutes is independent driving, sat nav or road signs to a named destination, with one of four set manoeuvres and an emergency stop on roughly one test in three. 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.
Results come immediately on return to the centre. The examiner talks you through any faults marked, prints the DL25 feedback form, and (if you passed) takes your provisional licence so the full one can be issued by post. A pass needs no more than 15 driving faults and zero serious or dangerous faults, the standard 66.7% of candidates at Driver Training Centre (Hastings) meet 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.