Weston-super-Mare Driving Test Centre
Weston-super-Mare posts a 56.5% pass rate, with Newport (Gwent) the nearest alternative about 15 miles away. Read on for its full DVSA history, first-time pass rate, waiting time and demographic breakdown.
DVSA data last updated July 2026
Weston-super-Mare sits in the top half of car pass rates nationally (Top 28%, rank #91 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Barry, about 13.1 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 26.2K passed, 21.7K failed, 48.0K total
How Weston-super-Mare compares
Weston-super-Mare runs 7.8 points ahead of the national average, ranked 91 of 323 in its category. Margins in this range usually track route difficulty: fewer multi-lane roundabouts and less dense traffic.
Where Weston-super-Mare ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
The series at Weston-super-Mare is remarkably flat, moving only from 55% (2017-18) to 56.5% now, with a total spread of 3.5 points.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Weston-super-Mare
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 22.8 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Weston-super-Mare in May 2026 had waited 3.9 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 Weston-super-Mare
- 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 BS23 3PZ, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Weston-super-Mare sits in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset. It's a DVSA-run car test centre, and the routes from here work outward into the streets and arterial roads that learners from Weston-super-Mare tend to know already. Weston-super-Mare sees moderate volume: 48.0K practical tests through 2017-18-2024-25. Year-on-year percentages here are meaningful, but watch the trend line rather than fixating on any single period.
56.5% at Weston-super-Mare, against a UK car average of 48.7%. That puts the centre 7.8 points clear of the national figure and ranks it #91 of 323 car centres in the DVSA's network. First-time pass rate: 56.7%. UK average: 49%. Weston-super-Mare is 7.7 points to the good on first attempts, a meaningful gap, not a rounding artefact.
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 Weston-super-Mare
- Don't read a higher pass rate as a softer test. Weston-super-Mare'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.
- 56.7% of first-timers pass at Weston-super-Mare, 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.
- Practising the roads around the centre is the preparation that most reliably pays off. Most ADI instructors in Weston-super-Mare 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.
Other test centres nearby
On the day at Weston-super-Mare
Give yourself ten minutes in hand when you head to Weston-super-Mare, and look up where to park beforehand, facilities differ from one DVSA site to the next. The DVSA centre finder shows the exact location. This is a high-demand centre, modelled at roughly 13 to 17 weeks to a slot, so book as far ahead as you can and keep an eye on cancellations. You must have your provisional photocard licence on you, plus a car with L plates and a working interior mirror for the examiner. If Newport (Gwent) is fully booked, Weston-super-Mare is the next closest centre, roughly 15 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 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.
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 56.5% of candidates at Weston-super-Mare 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.