Driving Test Pass Rates in Kettering
Kettering has 3 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 46% 2.7 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 Kettering
Kettering is a small group of 3 DVSA practical driving test centres in English territory. Together, these centres have processed 138.8K 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, Kettering sits a little below the UK average. The city-wide car pass rate of 46% trails the UK figure by 2.7 percentage points, suggesting routes here may be modestly more demanding than the national norm.
Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 30.2 percentage points: Kettering leads at 76.2% (2024-25), while Kettering sits at 46%. 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.
Kettering vs the UK average
Kettering below the UK average pass rate by 2.7 percentage points. Pass rates in Kettering run slightly below the UK norm, suggesting routes here may be modestly more demanding.
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Pass rate by gender across Kettering
Across Kettering's test centres, men pass at 54.8% and women at 47% a gender gap of 7.8 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 Kettering is Kettering at 76.2% (2024-25), and the toughest is Kettering at 46% (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. 71.7K passes recorded across 3 Kettering centres.