Croydon Driving Test Centre

· Cambridgeshire

41.2%
final pass rate 9,799 tests/year · 6 years of data · DVSA data: 2012-13

Key Statistics

41.2% Overall Pass Rate ▼ -1.7pp
44.8% Male Pass Rate
37.4% Female Pass Rate
56,230 Total Tests (6 years)

Historical Pass Rate Trend

Croydon pass rate over 6 years

35% 37% 39% 41% 43% 45% 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2007: 39.8% 2008: 38.2% 2009: 41.3% 2010: 40.0% 2011: 42.9% 2012: 41.2%

Monthly Breakdown (2012-13)

Month Tests Passes Pass Rate Male Rate Female Rate
Apr 749 325 43.4% 49.2% 37.9%
May 940 356 37.9% 41.6% 33.7%
Jun 813 355 43.7% 46.3% 41.3%
Jul 777 341 43.9% 43.8% 44.0%
Aug 965 386 40.0% 43.3% 36.7%
Sep 773 299 38.7% 43.4% 33.9%
Oct 1,019 434 42.6% 47.5% 37.9%
Nov 956 386 40.4% 44.5% 36.1%
Dec 665 266 40.0% 44.5% 35.7%
Jan 727 312 42.9% 44.0% 41.6%
Feb 802 332 41.4% 45.7% 36.6%
Mar 613 242 39.5% 44.2% 33.9%

Gender Comparison

Male candidates pass at a 7.4pp higher rate than female candidates at Croydon.

35% 38% 41% 44% 47% 50% 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2007: 35.7% 2008: 35.3% 2009: 37.7% 2010: 36.9% 2011: 39.3% 2012: 37.4% 2007: 43.5% 2008: 40.7% 2009: 44.2% 2010: 42.7% 2011: 46.1% 2012: 44.8%
Male Female

Pass Rate by Age

How do different age groups perform at Croydon? The chart below shows pass rates for candidates aged 17 to 25, who account for 387.552 of the tests conducted here.

17: 412.0% 18: 645.0% 19: 531.0% 20: 558.0% 21: 427.0% 22: 354.0% 23: 385.0% 24: 344.0% 25: 359.0% 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Age of candidate at test

18-year-olds have the highest pass rate at Croydon with 645.0% from 45.45454545454545 tests, while 24-year-olds have the lowest at 344.0%. The 301.0 percentage point gap between the best and worst age groups is significant.

AgeTestsPass RateMale RateFemale Rate
1753.75412.0%49.2%86.0%
1845.455645.0%46.7%120.0%
1939.35531.0%46.5%109.0%
2039.051558.0%44.0%107.0%
2147.489427.0%42.8%104.0%
2239.548354.0%50.3%70.0%
2340.741385.0%40.8%77.0%
2442.169344.0%51.7%70.0%
2540359.0%43.5%70.0%

Automatic vs Manual

38.7%Automatic Pass Rate
41.2%Overall Pass Rate
1,619Auto Tests/Year

At Croydon, the automatic test pass rate is 38.7%, which is 2.5 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 41.2%. With 1,619 automatic tests conducted, this is a well-tested centre for auto candidates.

Male automatic candidates pass at 47.8% compared to 36.3% for females.

Automatic vs overall pass rate trend

35% 37% 39% 41% 43% 45% 2008 2009 2010 2012 2009: 41.3% 2010: 40.0% 2011: 42.9% 2012: 41.2% 2008: 38.0% 2009: 42.0% 2010: 39.6% 2012: 38.7%
Automatic Overall

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