Driving Test Pass Rates in Cambridge
Cambridge has 3 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 50.5% 1.8 pp above the UK national average of 48.7%. The full ranking, gender split, first-time pass rate and centre-by-centre data is below.
About Cambridge
Cambridge is an English city served by a small group of 3 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 97.8K tests on record, every result tracked here is sourced from the DVSA's quarterly statistical release and aggregated to give a like-for-like view of how each centre performs.
As a whole, Cambridge runs slightly ahead of the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 50.5% is 1.8 percentage points above the UK figure of 48.7%, suggesting modestly favourable test conditions overall.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 27.5 percentage points: Cambridge (Hardwick) leads at 78% (2024-25), while Cambridge (Brookmount Court) sits at 50.5%. That gap matters when you book, the same candidate can have a meaningfully different experience depending on which routes they drive on test day. Most learners pick the centre closest to where they take their lessons, but it's worth a few mock runs at your shortlisted centre's actual routes before the real thing.
Cambridge vs the UK average
Cambridge above the UK average pass rate by 1.8 percentage points. Pass rates in Cambridge sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Cambridge
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Pass rate by gender across Cambridge
Across Cambridge's test centres, men pass at 59.1% and women at 52.4% a gender gap of 6.7 percentage points in favour of male candidates. Across the UK, the gap is around 5 percentage points on average.
By test category
All test centres in Cambridge
About these statistics
Pass rates shown above are aggregated across all available years of DVSA quarterly statistical data for each centre. Rates are volume-weighted across the city, larger centres carry proportionally more weight than smaller ones. Centres with fewer than 1,000 tests in the current period are flagged as low-sample to avoid statistically noisy comparisons. The best-performing centre in Cambridge is Cambridge (Hardwick) at 78% (2024-25), and the toughest is Cambridge (Brookmount Court) at 50.5% (2024-25). Always factor in your own preparation, instructor recommendations, and route familiarity, pass rates are a useful signal, not a guarantee.
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Data: DVSA quarterly statistical release, released under the Open Government License v3.0. 55.8K passes recorded across 3 Cambridge centres.