Worksop Driving Test Centre
At Worksop, 53.3% 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
Worksop sits in the top half of car pass rates nationally (Top 37%, rank #121 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Chesterfield, about 13.4 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 40.0K passed, 36.7K failed, 76.7K total
How Worksop compares
The 4.6-point advantage at Worksop (ranked 121 of 323 in its category) is worth having but not decisive; a well-prepared candidate passes at either kind of centre.
Where Worksop ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Stability is the story at Worksop: 56% in 2017-18, 53.3% now, and every year in between inside a 6.7-point band.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Worksop
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 19 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Worksop in May 2026 had waited 11.3 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
Address
Source: DVSA find a driving test centre (Open Government Licence v3.0), captured 2026-05-12.
Tests offered at Worksop
- 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 S81 8BW, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Where do you actually take your car test if you book Worksop? You start in Worksop, East Midlands (S80 1JB), and the examiner takes you through whatever mix of urban and outlying roads sits within a roughly twenty-minute drive of the centre. 76.7K 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.
How does Worksop compare nationally? 53.3% pass rate, #121 of 323 car centres in the DVSA network, 4.6 points above the UK average of 48.7%. The upper half of the country, in other words. 54.9% of first-timers pass at Worksop, 5.9 points above the UK figure of 49%. A prepared first attempt has a real shot here in a way it doesn't at every centre.
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 Worksop
- Centre difficulty is roughly average at Worksop. The same fault categories that fail candidates nationally (junctions, mirrors, observation) are what fail candidates here, in similar proportions.
- 76.7K 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.
- Practising the roads around the centre is the preparation that most reliably pays off. Most ADI instructors in Worksop will know the road types and junctions learners commonly meet near the centre.
- Book through the official DVSA service (gov.uk/book-driving-test). Third-party "fast-track" sites charge a premium for the same booking; the official DVSA booking service is free.
Other test centres nearby
On the day at Worksop
Aim to be at Worksop 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 S80 1JB) 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 Ashfield is fully booked, Worksop is the next closest centre, roughly 13 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 53.3% of Worksop'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.