Driving Test Pass Rates in Exeter
Exeter has 4 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 47.9% 0.8 pp below the UK national average of 48.7%. The full ranking, gender split, first-time pass rate and centre-by-centre data is below.
About Exeter
Exeter is an English city served by a sizeable concentration of 4 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 150.7K 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, Exeter tracks the UK national average closely. With a city-wide car pass rate of 47.9%, within a percentage point of the 48.7% UK figure, candidates here can expect a typical level of difficulty.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 29.9 percentage points: Exeter leads at 77.8% (2024-25), while Exeter sits at 47.9%. 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.
Exeter vs the UK average
Exeter below the UK average pass rate by 0.8 percentage points. Pass rates in Exeter sit close to the UK norm, expect a typical level of difficulty.
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Pass rate by gender across Exeter
Across Exeter's test centres, men pass at 55.7% and women at 50.5% a gender gap of 5.1 percentage points in favour of male candidates. Across the UK, the gap is around 5 percentage points on average.
By test category
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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 Exeter is Exeter at 77.8% (2024-25), and the toughest is Exeter at 47.9% (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. 81.4K passes recorded across 4 Exeter centres.