Worcester Driving Test Centre
Worcester in Worcester currently passes 50.6% of tests, 1.9 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
Worcester sits in the bottom half of car pass rates nationally (Bottom 50%, rank #162 of 323). No nearby car centre currently posts a higher pass rate.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 63.6K passed, 66.3K failed, 129.9K total
How Worcester compares
Worcester sits 1.9 points above the UK average, ranked 162 of 323 in its category: close enough that centre choice matters far less than preparation.
Where Worcester ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Stability is the story at Worcester: 48.6% in 2017-18, 50.6% now, and every year in between inside a 6.9-point band.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Worcester
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Worcester in May 2026 had waited 10.3 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
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Accessibility & facilities
Parking, toilets, and disabled-access details vary by centre. Check the official DVSA find a driving test centre tool, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Worcester sits in Worcester, Worcestershire. It's a DVSA-run car test centre, and the routes from here work outward into the streets and arterial roads that learners from Worcester tend to know already. If you're cross-checking this pass rate against other sources, the sample size matters. 129.9K tests over 2017-18-2024-25 is large enough that any rounding you see between sites is just rounding, not disagreement on the underlying data.
50.6% at Worcester, against a UK car average of 48.7%. That puts the centre 1.9 points above the national figure and ranks it #162 of 323 car centres in the DVSA's network. 5.3K first-attempt tests, 50.4% pass rate, against a UK average of 49%. Worcester doesn't favour or punish first-timers relative to the national pattern.
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 Worcester
- Worcester 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.
- 129.9K tests through this centre over the published window. At that throughput, competition for short-notice slots is constant, so make a habit of checking the official booking page often.
- If you can, take at least one lesson with an instructor who specifically works the Worcester area. Local instructors know which nearby junctions are demanding and will drill them.
- 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 Worcester
Give yourself ten minutes in hand when you head to Worcester, 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 very high-demand centre, modelled at roughly 19 to 23 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 Redditch is fully booked, Worcester is the next closest centre, roughly 12 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 50.6% of candidates at Worcester 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.