National Statistics

When to Take Your Test

Pass rates wobble a little through the year. The swing is small, but August runs consistently strongest across every year of DVSA data.

DVSA DRT122A · pass rates by month OGL v3

Best Month

August

47.6% across 2,002,645 tests

Toughest Month

February

46.3% across 2,087,447 tests

Seasonal Swing

1.3 points

From 25,313,477 tests pooled since 2007

Pass rate by month of the year

Average pass rate for each calendar month, pooled across all years since 2007. Don't read too much into a single point - the whole range spans only 1.3 points.

Pass Rate · By Month of Year47.6%

Every month in numbers

The same figures as raw counts - how many tests each calendar month has seen since 2007, and how many of them passed.

Month	Pass rate	Tests	Passes
January	47.1%	2,136,406	1,006,785
February	46.3%	2,087,447	966,625
March	46.6%	2,182,927	1,016,393
April	47.4%	1,866,319	883,824
May	47.1%	2,058,988	969,457
June	46.9%	2,079,892	974,621
July	47.2%	2,151,150	1,014,319
August	47.6%	2,002,645	954,256
September	46.9%	2,186,155	1,025,252
October	46.8%	2,385,685	1,116,130
November	46.3%	2,334,077	1,081,556
December	46.9%	1,841,786	862,908