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Birmingham driving test centre

DVSA name: Birmingham (Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre) · Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre, Alcester Road South, Birmingham, B14 6ER

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Pass rate 2025/26
53.5%
GB 50.0% · West Midlands 46.2%
Median wait, Aug 2026
3.1weeks
Free slots 18.8 weeks ahead
Tests a year
486
260 passed

Key facts

  • Birmingham's pass rate was 53.5% in 2025/26 from 486 tests, 3.5 points above the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 5 of 26 centres in West Midlands (West Midlands average 46.2%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 7.3 points above it.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 3.1 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 18.8 weeks ahead.

This centre opened on 2 March 2026, so everything published about it rests on one month of results: 486 tests at 53.5 per cent, which would put it fifth of the 26 centres in the West Midlands and 7.3 points above a low regional average. Treat that as a first reading rather than a settled figure. The roads are not in doubt. There are 79 give-way junctions and 29 signalled crossings on the practice loops on this page, 54 schools in the area, and 86 per cent of the distance at 30 mph. This is dense south Birmingham suburb driving, junction after junction, with pedestrians at most of them.

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5 loops from the centre, 54 km in all, with 23 roundabouts and 125 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Birmingham; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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Drive all 5 loops around Birmingham from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 54 km · 125 marked turns
  • Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
  • Street View tour of each route
  • Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
  • The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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  1. Route 1 · via Alcester Road South
    11.9 km loop with 6 roundabouts, 13 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Bells Lane.
    11.9 km · 28 turns · 6 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via Alcester Road South
    11.2 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 13 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Bells Lane.
    11.2 km · 28 turns · 3 roundabouts
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  3. Route 3 · via Wheelers Lane
    9.6 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Alcester Road South.
    9.6 km · 25 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Alcester Road South
    10.4 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 4 left turns and a stretch of Yardley Wood Road.
    10.4 km · 20 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  5. Route 5 · via Yardley Wood Road
    11.1 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Alcester Road South.
    11.1 km · 24 turns · 4 roundabouts
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

Seventy-nine give-way junctions across 54.3 kilometres. That is the number that describes this test: side road after side road, most of them yours to judge, on 30 mph suburban streets with cars parked along both sides. Eighty-six per cent of the distance is at 30 and 13 per cent at 20.

Pedestrians are the other constant. There are 29 signalled crossings and four zebras on the practice loops on this page, with 54 schools inside the area — one of the highest counts anywhere. At school times that changes the drive completely, and your examiner will be watching the approach to every crossing whether anyone is on it or not.

Roundabouts still do some of the joining. Thirteen are named — Alcester Road South, Druids Lane, Broad Meadow Lane, Lifford Lane, Monyhull Hall Road, School Road, Warstock Road, Wheelers Lane, Barn Lane, Highters Heath Lane, Maypole Lane, Haunch Lane and Yardley Wood Road — with eight mini-roundabouts and nine sets of traffic signals besides. Two loops ask for thirteen right turns each.

Alcester Road South and Yardley Wood Road carry the longer stretches, with the A435 and A441 and a section of dual carriageway. Wheelers Lane, Highters Heath Lane, Monyhull Hall Road, Haunch Lane, Shenstone Road, Harpers Road, Fordhouse Lane and The Worthings fill in the residential half where the manoeuvres go. There are no level crossings on the set.

Pass rate at Birmingham, 2025/26 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

Not enough data to draw a chart.

Month by month, 2025/26

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By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/2648653.5%56.4%45.9%

West Midlands average 46.2% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Birmingham

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

07.515GB 11.9 wks3.1Feb 2026May 2026Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 20263.118.8930.6%
Jul 20263.124911%
Jun 20263.724881.6%
May 20262.924940.6%
Apr 20262.724901.4%
Mar 20261.524970.4%

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Test day at Birmingham

The centre is at the Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre on Alcester Road South, B14 6ER. It opened for tests on 2 March 2026, so it is newer than most of the advice you will find about it, and it shares the site with a working leisure centre and its car park.

Car tests only are conducted here. Pineapple Road station is 2 kilometres away, which is a walk of half an hour; most candidates arrive by car or with an instructor.

Parking is not published for this site. A leisure centre car park has its own users and often a time limit, so read the signs and do not leave the car anywhere that an overrunning test would turn into a problem.

The wait was a median of 3.1 weeks for tests taken in July 2026, far shorter than the national 11.9 — that is what a new centre looks like while the local demand catches up with it. The first week with a tenth of its slots still free was 24 weeks ahead, so the short median reflects who has already booked rather than how easy it is to book now.

The neighbours are worth knowing: Birmingham (Kings Heath) is 1.2 kilometres away and passes 46.8 per cent, and Birmingham (Shirley), 4.8 kilometres off, passes 56.6. Booking and cancelling is on GOV.UK only.

What DVSA publishes about Birmingham

Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.

Tests conducted here
car
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Learner reports from Birmingham

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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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, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Birmingham.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre, Alcester Road South
Birmingham B14 6ER

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Birmingham

Is Birmingham an easy test centre?
By the numbers, yes: 53.5% of car tests were passed there in 2025/26, against 50.0% nationally. Pass rates reflect the local roads and who takes tests there as much as the examiners, so treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Birmingham?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Birmingham was 3.1 weeks, and you had to look about 18.8 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
Where is Birmingham driving test centre?
Birmingham test centre is at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre, Alcester Road South, Birmingham, B14 6ER. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
How many driving tests does Birmingham do a year?
486 car tests were conducted at Birmingham in 2025/26, of which 260 were passed.

Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.

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