Letchworth Driving Test Centre
At Letchworth, 58.3% of candidates pass, one of the 323 test centres we rank from the DVSA data. Below you will find the full pass-rate history, the demographic split, the official DVSA waiting time and a comparison with the nearest centres.
DVSA data last updated July 2026
Letchworth sits in the top quarter of car pass rates nationally (Top 21%, rank #69 of 323). No nearby car centre currently posts a higher pass rate.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 40.9K passed, 41.2K failed, 82.1K total
How Letchworth compares
The 9.6-point advantage at Letchworth (ranked 69 of 323 in its category) is worth having but not decisive; a well-prepared candidate passes at either kind of centre.
Where Letchworth ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
The direction of travel here is upward: Letchworth has added 11.5 points since 2017-18, from 46.8% to 58.3%, with its strongest year at 78.9% in 2020-21.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Letchworth
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Letchworth in May 2026 had waited 14.9 weeks from booking to test day.
Official DVSA data, May 2026. The median is the time between booking and taking the test; for live availability use the DVSA booking service.
Centre details
Address
Source: DVSA find a driving test centre (Open Government Licence v3.0), captured 2026-05-12.
Tests offered at Letchworth
- Car
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 SG6 1RF, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Letchworth: a DVSA car test centre in Baldock, Hertfordshire. Local routes, local traffic patterns, no national standard for what "harder" or "easier" looks like beyond what the numbers below show. The DVSA has logged 82.1K tests at this centre over 2017-18-2024-25. At that scale, the year-on-year shifts you see in the chart correspond to genuine changes in how the centre is performing, not statistical wobble.
The top quarter of the UK by pass rate: Letchworth ranks #69 of 323 car centres at 58.3%, 9.6 points clear of the national figure of 48.7%. Across 2.7K first-attempt tests, Letchworth passes 58.2% of candidates, against 49% nationally. The centre is a relatively forgiving venue for a first booking, by the DVSA's own data.
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 Letchworth
- Don't read a higher pass rate as a softer test. Letchworth'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.
- 58.2% of first-timers pass at Letchworth, so the centre is on the forgiving side. If your instructor is signing you off as test-ready, your own preparation matters far more than the venue.
- Volume at Letchworth 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 Baldock will know the road types and junctions learners commonly meet near the centre.
- 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.
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On the day at Letchworth
Arrive at Letchworth with about ten minutes to spare and know your parking options in advance, they vary site to site across the DVSA network. The DVSA centre finder (postcode SG6 1RF) maps the centre and its surroundings. With very high demand and waits near 18 to 22 weeks, take any earlier slot the booking service offers rather than holding out. Don't set off without your provisional photocard licence; the test cannot start without it, and your car needs L plates and a working interior mirror. If Stevenage is fully booked, Letchworth 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.
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 58.3% of candidates at Letchworth 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.