Llantrisant Driving Test Centre
Llantrisant in Llantrisant records a 50.6% pass rate against a UK average of 48.7%, with a median wait of 8.6 weeks. This page covers the multi-year trend, the first-time and gender pass rates, and a like-for-like comparison with other centres.
DVSA data last updated September 2026
Llantrisant sits in the top half of car pass rates nationally (Top 50%, rank #160 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Barry, about 10.4 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 18.0K passed, 14.5K failed, 32.6K total
How Llantrisant compares
Llantrisant is 1.9 points ahead of the national figure and ranked 160 of 323 in its category, a difference most candidates will not feel on the day.
Where Llantrisant ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
The longer arc at Llantrisant points down: 55% in 2018-19 against 50.6% now, a 4.4-point slide, though 2021-22 showed what the routes allow at 62.5%.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Llantrisant
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 12 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Llantrisant in August 2026 had waited 8.6 weeks from booking to test day.
Official DVSA data, August 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 Llantrisant
- car
- lorry and bus
- 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 CF72 8YR, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Of the DVSA car centres across Wales, Llantrisant is the one covering Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf and the surrounding CF72 8BU area. The routes are built around the roads the centre's examiners can reach inside the test's time budget. Sample size: 32.6K tests over 2017-18-2024-25. Enough that comparisons hold up; small enough that a quiet month or a route being temporarily diverted can show in the data.
If you've been told Llantrisant is "an easy centre" or "a hard one", the data won't fully back that. 50.6% is 1.9 points above the UK car average of 48.7%, which is rank #160 out of 323. Across 4.2K first-attempt tests, Llantrisant passes 52.1% 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 Llantrisant
- Pass rate at Llantrisant sits close to the UK average. Prepare for an ordinary level of difficulty: examiners apply the standard DVSA marking sheet, and the routes are a representative mix of local conditions.
- Ask any instructor working Llantrisant 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.
- If you missed the earlier slots at Llantrisant, cancellations appear on the official DVSA booking service throughout the day. Check at off-peak times (early morning, late evening) for the best chance of catching one.
Whether you pass at Llantrisant is not decided by the centre. It is decided by the 15 things an examiner can mark you on, and response, traffic signs is one of the ones that ends attempts early.
A fair amount of what goes wrong is settled before the engine starts: the documents, the car, the 2 vehicle safety questions and whichever habit you have not drilled, response, traffic signs being a common one. Working through it as a list beats remembering it in the car park.
Drive your local test routes specifically scanning for signs. Have the instructor cover unusual signs on country roads (national speed limit on single carriageway = 60 mph, not 70). Free to use, no sign up. Everything for the day itself is on the practical test hub.
Other test centres nearby
You cannot book a practical test at Llantrisant until you hold a theory pass, and it has to still be valid on the day you sit it. Nationally 44.8% of candidates pass the theory.
Sign shapes and colours, road markings and what each one tells you to do. All 14 DVSA topics are free to practise, with no sign up. See the theory pass rate by centre or the full practice hub.
On the day at Llantrisant
Give yourself ten minutes in hand when you head to Llantrisant, and look up where to park beforehand, facilities differ from one DVSA site to the next. The DVSA centre finder (postcode CF72 8BU) shows the exact location. Modelled waits here sit around 9 to 13 weeks at moderate demand, which tends to mean less competition for a date that suits you. You must have your provisional photocard licence on you, plus a car with L plates and a working interior mirror for the examiner. If Barry is fully booked, Llantrisant is the next closest centre, roughly 10 miles away.
The practical lasts about 40 minutes and uses the standard DVSA format nationwide. After an eyesight check at 20 metres and one show-me and one tell-me question, the examiner sits in for the drive. Roughly 20 minutes of that is independent driving, either following a sat nav set by the examiner or following road signs, and you will complete one of four set manoeuvres; about one in seven tests includes an emergency stop, a frequency the DVSA reduced in late 2025. The drive covers the local mix of road types within roughly a twenty-minute radius of the centre. 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 50.6% of Llantrisant'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.
DVSA data period: 2024-25.