Motorcycle test centres: module 1 and module 2 pass rates
A full motorcycle licence takes two practical tests. Module 1 is the off-road manoeuvres test, taken on a closed area with a slalom, a U-turn and an emergency stop through a speed trap. Module 2 is the on-road test, about forty minutes with an examiner following on radio. DVSA publishes both by site and by quarter, and the gap between the two is wide: module 1 is where most riders come unstuck first.
| Test site | Region | Module 1 2025/26 | Module 2 2025/26 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | Pass rate | Tests | Pass rate | ||
| Aberdeen South (Cove) | Scotland | 480 | 65.2% | 430 | 70.5% |
| Atherton (Manchester) | North West | 508 | 71.3% | 661 | 59.0% |
| Aylesbury | South East | – | – | 293 | 64.2% |
| Ayr | Scotland | 468 | 65.6% | 316 | 82.6% |
| Banbury | South East | – | – | 467 | 76.4% |
| Bangor | Wales | 280 | 75.7% | 218 | 81.7% |
| Basildon | East of England | 1,780 | 74.0% | 1,676 | 63.7% |
| Bedford | East of England | – | – | 228 | 85.1% |
| Berwick-On-Tweed | North East | – | – | – | 80.0% |
| Birmingham (Garretts Green) | West Midlands | 1,068 | 75.5% | 461 | 80.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen | North West | 1,200 | 78.3% | 910 | 69.0% |
| Bletchley | South East | – | – | 274 | 71.2% |
| Bodmin | South West | – | – | 265 | 79.6% |
| Bradford (Thornbury) | Yorkshire and The Humber | – | – | 213 | 76.5% |
| Bredbury (Manchester) | North West | 1,125 | 73.2% | 925 | 68.9% |
| Bridgend | Wales | – | – | 388 | 71.1% |
| Bristol (Kingswood) | South West | 1,712 | 83.2% | 1,500 | 78.3% |
| Burgess Hill | South East | 1,969 | 75.9% | 1,796 | 72.4% |
| Burton on Trent | West Midlands | 1,866 | 78.9% | 1,704 | 83.8% |
| Bury St Edmunds | East of England | – | – | 389 | 74.8% |
| Camborne | South West | 542 | 77.3% | 396 | 73.7% |
| Cambridge (Hardwick) | East of England | 1,696 | 75.8% | 1,151 | 62.2% |
| Carlisle | North West | 472 | 71.4% | 307 | 76.2% |
| Chester | North West | – | – | 875 | 73.7% |
| Chesterfield | East Midlands | – | – | 209 | 62.2% |
| Darlington | North East | 1,027 | 71.3% | 802 | 84.0% |
| Dumfries | Scotland | – | – | – | 80.5% |
| Dundee | Scotland | 386 | 70.7% | 377 | 71.1% |
| Eastbourne | South East | – | – | 452 | 83.0% |
| Edinburgh (Musselburgh) | Scotland | 1,225 | 64.2% | 653 | 66.6% |
| Elgin | Scotland | – | – | 200 | 67.5% |
| Enfield (Innova Business Park) | London | 1,857 | 70.0% | 1,530 | 61.1% |
| Erith (London) | London | 1,367 | 65.0% | 1,113 | 59.3% |
| Exeter | South West | 932 | 82.2% | 848 | 79.5% |
| Farnborough | South East | 1,278 | 79.0% | 1,213 | 75.1% |
| Gateshead | North East | 1,128 | 73.1% | 1,119 | 67.7% |
| Gillingham | South East | 974 | 65.2% | 1,072 | 64.8% |
| Glasgow (Shieldhall) | Scotland | 1,031 | 69.4% | 811 | 58.3% |
| Gloucester | South West | 1,219 | 76.5% | 784 | 73.9% |
| Grangemouth | Scotland | – | – | 302 | 75.8% |
| Greenham | – | 488 | 76.8% | 352 | 87.5% |
| Hamilton | Scotland | – | – | 427 | 74.2% |
| Hastings (Ore) | South East | 466 | 71.9% | – | – |
| Hereford | West Midlands | – | – | 229 | 89.1% |
| Herne Bay | South East | 733 | 78.0% | 729 | 72.8% |
| Horsforth | Yorkshire and The Humber | – | – | 163 | 75.5% |
| Hull | Yorkshire and The Humber | 545 | 71.2% | 426 | 74.6% |
| Inverness (Longman Drive) | Scotland | 482 | 66.4% | 255 | 67.5% |
| Ipswich | East of England | 1,006 | 80.6% | 847 | 85.5% |
| Kendal (Oxenholme Road) | North West | – | – | – | 84.4% |
| Kettering | East Midlands | 770 | 74.0% | 652 | 71.2% |
| Kings Lynn | East of England | 408 | 73.8% | 305 | 75.1% |
| Kirkcaldy | Scotland | 595 | 68.4% | 416 | 72.1% |
| Kirkham LGV | – | 308 | 72.4% | 270 | 74.8% |
| Knaresborough | Yorkshire and The Humber | – | – | 244 | 81.1% |
| Lee On The Solent | South East | 1,798 | 77.1% | 1,404 | 85.7% |
| Leicester (Wigston) | East Midlands | 1,495 | 78.3% | 1,237 | 86.4% |
| Leighton Buzzard (Stanbridge Road) | East of England | 503 | 61.6% | – | – |
| Letchworth | East of England | – | – | 699 | 79.3% |
| Lincoln | East Midlands | 842 | 71.3% | 423 | 68.8% |
| Livingston | Scotland | 113 | 59.3% | – | – |
| Lowestoft(Mobbs Way) | East of England | – | – | 101 | 87.1% |
| Macclesfield | North West | – | – | 203 | 84.7% |
| Merthyr Tydfil | Wales | – | – | 277 | 78.0% |
| Mitcham (London) | London | 1,667 | 66.6% | 1,646 | 65.4% |
| NATIONAL FIGURES | – | 58,931 | 73.3% | 57,532 | 72.4% |
| Newport (Gwent) | Wales | 1,006 | 76.0% | 741 | 65.5% |
| Norwich (Peachman Way) | East of England | 810 | 84.7% | 705 | 77.9% |
| Nottingham (Colwick) | East Midlands | 972 | 81.4% | 862 | 81.0% |
| Oxford (Kassam Stadium) | South East | 1,375 | 73.7% | 895 | 71.5% |
| Pembroke Dock | Wales | – | – | 198 | 76.3% |
| Peterborough | East of England | 678 | 73.2% | 635 | 58.6% |
| Plymouth | South West | 717 | 76.2% | 567 | 79.0% |
| Poole | South West | 1,030 | 76.5% | 921 | 69.1% |
| Redditch | West Midlands | – | – | 167 | 77.2% |
| Rhyl | Wales | – | – | – | 84.8% |
| Rotherham | Yorkshire and The Humber | 1,057 | 68.7% | 958 | 74.2% |
| Salisbury | South West | – | – | 335 | 72.2% |
| Scarborough | Yorkshire and The Humber | – | – | 217 | 84.8% |
| Scunthorpe | Yorkshire and The Humber | 638 | 74.8% | 542 | 61.8% |
| Shrewsbury | West Midlands | 772 | 71.9% | 627 | 82.3% |
| Southport (Liverpool) | North West | – | – | 247 | 72.5% |
| St Helens (Liverpool) | North West | 1,364 | 66.1% | 950 | 60.2% |
| Steeton | Yorkshire and The Humber | 602 | 57.0% | 209 | 74.2% |
| Stirling | Scotland | – | – | 221 | 74.2% |
| Stornoway | Scotland | 23 | 78.3% | – | 82.1% |
| Swansea | Wales | 1,227 | 73.7% | 731 | 72.4% |
| Swindon | South West | 617 | 74.7% | 625 | 76.5% |
| Taunton | South West | 800 | 76.1% | 956 | 72.4% |
| Tolworth (London) | London | – | – | 246 | 69.5% |
| Tunbridge Wells | South East | – | – | 309 | 68.0% |
| Uxbridge (London) | London | 1,978 | 71.4% | 2,136 | 65.0% |
| Wakefield | Yorkshire and The Humber | 854 | 70.6% | 885 | 70.1% |
| Walton LGV | Yorkshire and The Humber | 764 | 70.8% | – | – |
| Warwick (Wedgenock House) | West Midlands | – | – | 393 | 80.4% |
| Wick | Scotland | – | 86.8% | 42 | 66.7% |
| Wolverhampton | West Midlands | 1,175 | 62.4% | – | – |
| Worcester | West Midlands | – | – | 453 | 81.5% |
| Wrexham LGV | – | 625 | 70.7% | – | – |
| York | Yorkshire and The Humber | – | – | 285 | 73.7% |
A dash means DVSA suppressed the number because too few tests were taken there to publish without identifying candidates. Some sites publish a pass rate but not the underlying counts for the same reason.
Reading the table
Module 1 sites are DVSA manoeuvring areas; module 2 is ridden from a test centre. A few sites do one and not the other, which is why some rows here are blank.
Pass rates at small sites move a long way on a handful of results, so treat anything under about fifty tests as indicative rather than a ranking. Car test centre figures, waiting times and route notes are in the car test centre directory.
Source: DVSA driving test statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.