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Every one of the 321 car test centres has its own board: test reports with the examiner’s fault categories, tips about parking and the waiting room, and questions. Reading is free.
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Route 3 · via Station Road at Bristol (Kingswood): what does the examiner want here?
Practising Route 3 · via Station Road around Bristol (Kingswood) in the PassRank simulator, I was marked on:…
Bristol ·
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I failed 3 times after that i passed
hi all, if you pay attention to the mirrors and roundabouts, you'll pass
Bristol ·
Boards
The centres with the most posts, then the busiest by tests taken. Pass rates are DVSA figures for the same year; the national average was 50%.
- Bristol (Kingswood)
Bristol
51.9% pass rate · 14,863 tests
- Birmingham (Garretts Green)
Birmingham
44.4% pass rate · 22,480 tests
- Goodmayes (London)
Goodmayes
43.7% pass rate · 21,374 tests
- Leicester (Wigston)
Leicester
51.2% pass rate · 18,868 tests
- West Didsbury (Manchester)
West Didsbury
47.7% pass rate · 17,806 tests
- Cardiff (Llanishen)
Cardiff
46.5% pass rate · 16,401 tests
- Birmingham (Kingstanding)
Birmingham
48.5% pass rate · 16,133 tests
- Chadderton
Oldham
46.8% pass rate · 15,988 tests
- Morden (London)
Morden
51% pass rate · 15,770 tests
- Nottingham (Colwick )
Nottingham
46.4% pass rate · 15,150 tests
- Warwick (Wedgenock House)
Warwick
48.5% pass rate · 15,070 tests
- Mitcham (London)
Croydon
47% pass rate · 15,046 tests
What makes a useful report
- Time of the test and which way the examiner turned out of the centre.
- The manoeuvre you were given and where it was done.
- What you were marked on, using the fault categories in the form. They are the same categories DVSA uses, so reports add up across a centre.
- Parking, the waiting room, anything you wish someone had told you.
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What examiners mark most often
DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely