driving test pass rate 2018

13 December 2018

13 September 2018

Men were consecutively more likely than women to pass practical driving tests in the United Kingdom. In the past nine years, the gap between pass rates for male and female participants has stayed relatively stable, recording a net increase of 2.3 percent for men and 1.1 percent for women. This was despite a noticeable slump in the most recently surveyed time period. Practical and theory tests for car driving have been separated since 1997, with the last change in practical test layout implemented in December 2017. That month, only 45 percent of those taking the practical test had passed.
This statistic shows that women still struggled more than their male counterparts during the practical driving test. Interestingly, figures for pass rates of theory tests showed the exact opposite. In 2018/19, female participants were 3.5 percent more likely than men to be successful, although the gap has been narrowing in recent years. There was a prominent decline in the share of successful theory tests. This development is likely due to new theory questions no longer being released online as of 2012.

In 2019/20, there were about 1.6 million practical driving tests taken in the United Kingdom. Of these less than fifty percent were successful. This was the second year in a row that the number of tests taken had decreased, with the share of passed tests staying relatively constant in respect to overall number.
Driving is still an inherent part of life for many people in the UK and still the most common mode of transport.
Pass rates for practical driving tests were consistently higher for men than women. In 2019/20, 49.6 percent of male participants passed the test, compared with 42.6 percent of female participants. Pass rates declined from 2016/17 onwards after having stayed relatively consistent between 2012/13 and 2016/17.

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Over the year there were 1,393 passes from 2,807 tests at a rate of 49.6 per cent.
There was a better pass rate at Dudley’s Lower Gornal centre, where 48.9 per cent of people passed – 4,861.

References:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/301246/practical-driving-tests-pass-rate-in-the-united-kingdom-by-gender/
http://www.statista.com/statistics/301253/number-of-driving-practical-tests-taken-and-passed-in-the-united-kingdom/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/driving-test-pass-rate-at-its-lowest-in-a-decade-074223279.html
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2018/07/15/how-hard-is-it-to-pass-the-driving-test-in-your-area/
http://builderstest.com/cscs-mock-test-full.html