Go Direct (Staffordshire) Driving Test Centre
The Go Direct (Staffordshire) driving test centre is located in Go Direct Marketing, England (LS12 5XX). 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
60 passed, 87 failed, 147 total
How Go Direct (Staffordshire) compares
Go Direct (Staffordshire) has a slightly tougher pass rate than the UK average. Routes here may be more demanding than rural centres.
Where Go Direct (Staffordshire) 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 Go Direct (Staffordshire) have remained broadly stable through recent reporting periods. Booking is achievable but not immediate: learners booking at Go Direct (Staffordshire) typically wait around 12 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 Go Direct (Staffordshire)
- HGV/LGV
For other test types at this location, search the DVSA centre finder with postcode LS12 5XX.
Accessibility & facilities
Parking, toilets, and disabled-access details vary by centre. Check the official DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode LS12 5XX, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
If you've got a test booked at LS12 5XX, that's Go Direct (Staffordshire) in Go Direct Marketing, West Yorkshire. Examiners use a small set of fixed routes built around the roads immediately surrounding the centre. Only 147 tests sit on the record at Go Direct (Staffordshire) for 2016-17-2018-19. That puts the centre in the tail of the volume distribution; treat any single-period rate as indicative, not definitive.
Rank: #150 of 152. Pass rate: 40.8%. UK average: 48.7%. That's a bottom quartile centre by the DVSA's own published figures. First-attempt data for Go Direct (Staffordshire) 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 Go Direct (Staffordshire)
- Go Direct (Staffordshire) is in the lower tier of pass rates nationally. That isn't an indictment of the examiners, it reflects road layout, traffic density, and route mix. Prepare specifically for the centre, not generically.
- With 147 tests on record at Go Direct (Staffordshire), 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 Go Direct (Staffordshire) 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 Go Direct (Staffordshire). Use gov.uk/book-driving-test directly; cancellations show up on the same booking flow.
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On the day at Go Direct (Staffordshire)
Plan to arrive at Go Direct (Staffordshire) about ten minutes before your slot. Parking varies between DVSA centres, so check the route and the surrounding streets on the DVSA centre finder (postcode LS12 5XX) a day or two ahead. Demand here is moderate with waits around 12 weeks, so there is usually a little more slot choice than at the busiest urban centres. Bring your provisional photocard licence; the examiner will not start without it, and you will need a roadworthy car with L plates and a working interior mirror. If Horsforth is fully booked, Go Direct (Staffordshire) is the next closest centre, roughly 4 miles away.
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 find out there and then, back at Go Direct (Staffordshire). The examiner runs through the faults on the DL25 feedback form and, on a pass, keeps your provisional licence so a full licence follows in the post. Clearing the test means staying under 16 driving faults, that is 15 or fewer, with no serious or dangerous fault; 40.8% of candidates here manage it on the current 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: 2018-19.