York driving test centre
Arabesque House (Unit 2), Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York, YO32 9GW
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Key facts
- York's pass rate was 54.4% in 2025/26 from 9,416 tests, 4.4 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 9 of 27 centres in Yorkshire and The Humber (Yorkshire and The Humber average 50.4%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 4 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 3.8 points, from 50.6% to 54.4%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 15.1 weeks since booking (longer than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 19 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 8.6 weeks, so waits have grown by about 6.5 weeks.
- 32.3% of the standard slots in the booking window were still unbooked in August 2026, which usually means a cancellation or new date is realistic here.
The York test centre is not in York, at least not the York most people picture. It is at Arabesque House on Monks Cross Drive, in Huntington on the north-eastern edge of the city, beside the Monks Cross retail park and the outer ring road. Candidates who plan the journey for the walled city end up in the wrong place. The location shapes the driving too. There are no medieval lanes here, but retail park traffic, ring road and estate roads instead, and every one of the practice loops on this page carries six roundabouts or more. Six level crossings sit within two and a half kilometres. The pass rate has risen since 2021 and sits above the Yorkshire average, though the wait has doubled in a year.
Drive the York test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 50 km in all, with 35 roundabouts and 116 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of York; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around York from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 50 km · 116 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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- Route 1 · via Malton Road11.8 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Stockton Lane.11.8 km · 27 turns · 7 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Haxby Road10.0 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 8 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of North Lane.10.0 km · 22 turns · 8 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Malton Road11.5 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of New Lane.11.5 km · 25 turns · 7 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Malton Road8.9 km loop with 6 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Ring Road.8.9 km · 18 turns · 6 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Jockey Lane7.8 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Monks Cross Link.7.8 km · 24 turns · 7 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Every one of the practice loops on this page has at least six roundabouts on it, and the shortest, at 7.8 km, has seven. That is the defining feature of a York test. Only three named roundabouts sit in the area, at Haxby Road, Vangarde Way and Strensall Road, with fourteen mini-roundabouts behind them, so most of what the loops meet is the smaller painted kind.
The immediate area is retail park. Monks Cross Drive, Jockey Lane and Vangarde Way run between car parks and shop entrances, with buses, delivery vehicles and pedestrians stepping out between parked cars. A test starting here makes observation demands before it has any real speed to it.
Beyond that, the Ring Road, Malton Road and Stockton Lane carry the faster driving. There is no dual carriageway and no A-road tagged in the area, so the ring road stretches are the quickest thing the routes touch, and seven per cent of the roads nearby carry a 60 limit. North Lane, New Lane and Hopgrove Lane South take the loops out into more open country.
Forty-nine per cent of the roads tagged nearby are 20 mph, but only nine schools sit in the area, which tells you those limits are residential rather than school-driven. They hold all day.
Six level crossings sit within two and a half kilometres, more than most centres of this size have. Treat one as a junction rather than a formality: look, slow, and never start across unless you can clear the far side.
Manoeuvres go on the estate roads off Cotswold Way and Southdown Road, where the kerbs run long and straight and parking is light enough to leave you room.
Pass rate at York, 2007/08 to 2025/26
Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.
Month by month, 2025/26
By year and gender
| Year | Tests | Pass rate | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 9,416 | 54.4% | 54.6% | 54.3% |
| 2024/25 | 7,121 | 51.3% | 52.0% | 50.5% |
| 2023/24 | 7,838 | 51.0% | 51.6% | 50.4% |
| 2022/23 | 5,972 | 53.3% | 54.8% | 51.9% |
| 2021/22 | 6,181 | 50.6% | 54.0% | 47.7% |
| 2020/21 | 2,112 | 53.5% | 56.7% | 50.9% |
| 2019/20 | 6,578 | 51.5% | 55.3% | 48.5% |
| 2018/19 | 6,466 | 54.0% | 57.0% | 51.6% |
Yorkshire and The Humber average 50.4% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at York
Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.
| Month | Median wait | Weeks to free slots | Slots offered | Still free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 15.1 | 19 | 26 | 32.3% |
| Jul 2026 | 15.1 | 18.8 | 27 | 31.7% |
| Jun 2026 | 10.9 | 19.4 | 41 | 27.7% |
| May 2026 | 10.9 | 22 | 37 | 25.9% |
| Apr 2026 | 11.1 | 22.8 | 37 | 26.7% |
| Mar 2026 | 8.3 | 23.2 | 45 | 21.6% |
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Test day at York
The centre is Arabesque House, Unit 2, on Monks Cross Drive in Huntington. This is the detail most worth getting right. It sits on the north-eastern edge of York beside the Monks Cross retail park, not in the city centre, so set the satnav to the postcode, and allow extra time if you are coming through town.
DVSA publishes that you can access this centre if you use a wheelchair. Car tests are conducted here, along with motorcycle module 2 on the road and ADI part 3.
Parking is not published. A unit beside a retail park usually has bays on site, and there is a lot of public parking around Monks Cross, but that is typical rather than confirmed for the centre itself. Arrive with a few minutes to look, and note that a busy retail car park is a poor place for a last-minute practice reverse.
No station is close enough to walk from, so most candidates arrive with an instructor.
The examiner calls you by name, checks your licence and asks you to sign the declaration that the car is insured for the test, then does the eyesight check outside. Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK. The wait has roughly doubled over the past year, to around fifteen weeks.
What DVSA publishes about York
Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.
- Tests conducted here
- carmotorcycle module 2 (on-road)ADI part 3
- Wheelchair access
- DVSA states you can access this centre in a wheelchair.
Other tests at York
This centre is not car only. DVSA publishes results for these categories separately, and they are taken by different candidates on different vehicles, so the rates are not comparable with the car figure above.
Learner reports from York
No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.
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 York.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Arabesque House (Unit 2), Monks Cross Drive, HuntingtonYork YO32 9GW
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about York
- Is York an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 54.4% 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 York?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at York was 15.1 weeks, and you had to look about 19 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 York driving test centre?
- York test centre is at Arabesque House (Unit 2), Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York, YO32 9GW. 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 York do a year?
- 9,416 car tests were conducted at York in 2025/26, of which 5,125 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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