Driving Test Pass Rates in Morton Palms
Morton Palms has 4 DVSA driving test centres with a volume-weighted average car pass rate of 49.2% 0.5 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 Morton Palms
Morton Palms is a sizeable concentration of 4 DVSA practical driving test centres in English territory. Together, these centres have processed 114.2K 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, Morton Palms tracks the UK national average closely. With a city-wide car pass rate of 49.2%, 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 25.5 percentage points: Darlington leads at 74.7% (2024-25), while Darlington sits at 49.2%. 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.
Morton Palms vs the UK average
Morton Palms above the UK average pass rate by 0.5 percentage points. Pass rates in Morton Palms sit close to the UK norm; candidates here can expect a typical level of difficulty.
Easiest & hardest centres in Morton Palms
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Pass rate by gender across Morton Palms
Across Morton Palms's test centres, men pass at 56.6% and women at 52.8% a gender gap of 3.8 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 Morton Palms
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 Morton Palms is Darlington at 74.7% (2024-25), and the toughest is Darlington at 49.2% (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. 63.6K passes recorded across 4 Morton Palms centres.