Leeds Driving Test Centre
Leeds in Leeds currently passes 50.2% of tests, 1.5 points above the UK average of 48.7%. The sections below cover the year-by-year trend, who passes most often, how long learners wait, and how it stacks up against neighbouring centres.
DVSA data last updated July 2026
Leeds sits in the bottom half of car pass rates nationally (Bottom 47%, rank #172 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Knaresborough, about 15.1 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 48.3K passed, 80.3K failed, 128.6K total
How Leeds compares
The 1.5-point edge at Leeds (ranked 172 of 323 in its category) is real but small; local route familiarity moves your odds more than the venue does.
Where Leeds ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
The direction of travel here is upward: Leeds has added 16.9 points since 2017-18, from 33.3% to 50.2%, with its strongest year at 66.2% in 2020-21.
Pass rate by demographic
Estimated wait time and demand
Booking requires patience: on this estimate, learners booking at Leeds would typically wait around 16 to 20 weeks from booking to test day.
These figures are an estimate, not live data. We model them from published demand reports and this centre's test volume; the method is on our methodology page. Check the DVSA booking service for current slots.
Centre details
Address
Source: DVSA find a driving test centre (Open Government Licence v3.0), captured 2026-05-12.
Tests offered at Leeds
- car
- ADI part 2
- 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 LS8 3LF, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
If you've got a test booked at LS1 6AL, that's Leeds in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Examiners drive a mix of the roads immediately surrounding the centre; the DVSA does not publish its test routes. 128.6K tests over 2017-18-2024-25. That's enough volume that the headline pass rate here moves slowly, a single bad quarter shifts it by a fraction of a percentage point rather than visibly.
Rank: #172 of 323. Pass rate: 50.2%. UK average: 48.7%. That's a lower half centre by the DVSA's own published figures. 50.9% of candidates pass on their first attempt at Leeds; the UK figure is 49%. The two are close enough that "first-time vs retake" mostly tracks how ready the individual was, not where they sat the test.
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 Leeds
- Leeds doesn't deviate much from the national curve, so generic preparation advice (mock tests, mirror discipline, junction observation) applies here in the same shape it would anywhere.
- Volume at Leeds is among the highest in the network. Don't take the first available date on faith, refreshing the DVSA booking page across a few days regularly turns up cancellations.
- Practising the roads around the centre is the preparation that most reliably pays off. Most ADI instructors in Leeds will know the road types and junctions learners commonly meet near the centre.
- Don't pay third-party sites for booking access at Leeds. Use gov.uk/book-driving-test directly; cancellations show up on the same booking flow.
Other test centres nearby
On the day at Leeds
Aim to be at Leeds 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 LS1 6AL) before the day. Demand is high and the modelled wait is close to 16 to 20 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 Horsforth is fully booked, Leeds is the next closest centre, roughly 5 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 works through whatever mix of urban and outlying roads sits within about a twenty-minute radius, and at a centre this busy that usually means heavier traffic to read. 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 50.2% of Leeds'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.