Driving Test Pass Rates in Cardington
Cardington has 2 DVSA driving test centres, all for motorcycle or lorry tests, so there is no car (category B) pass rate to compare against the UK average of 48.7%. The centre-by-centre breakdown by test type is below.
About Cardington
Cardington is an English city served by a small group of 2 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 8.8K 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.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 0.8 percentage points: Cardington leads at 73.8% (2020-21), while Cardington sits at 73%. 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.
Easiest & hardest centres in Cardington
Pass rate by gender across Cardington
Across Cardington's test centres, men pass at 70.6% and women at 57.4% a gender gap of 13.2 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 Cardington
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 Cardington is Cardington at 73.8% (2020-21), and the toughest is Cardington at 73% (2020-21). 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. 6.1K passes recorded across 2 Cardington centres.