Failsworth Driving Test Centre

· Greater Manchester

39.2%
final pass rate 8,444 tests/year · 6 years of data · DVSA data: 2012-13

Key Statistics

39.2% Overall Pass Rate ▼ -1.6pp
44.0% Male Pass Rate
35.1% Female Pass Rate
58,881 Total Tests (6 years)

Historical Pass Rate Trend

Failsworth pass rate over 6 years

35% 37% 39% 41% 43% 45% 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2007: 42.2% 2008: 41.3% 2009: 40.4% 2010: 43.2% 2011: 40.8% 2012: 39.2%

Monthly Breakdown (2012-13)

Month Tests Passes Pass Rate Male Rate Female Rate
Apr 579 233 40.2% 43.1% 38.0%
May 765 312 40.8% 45.6% 36.3%
Jun 601 241 40.1% 47.4% 33.5%
Jul 850 334 39.3% 43.4% 35.5%
Aug 771 313 40.6% 44.7% 37.4%
Sep 677 261 38.6% 45.0% 33.0%
Oct 902 324 35.9% 38.0% 34.0%
Nov 836 323 38.6% 43.1% 35.1%
Dec 557 219 39.3% 41.9% 37.3%
Jan 640 261 40.8% 47.9% 34.4%
Feb 631 243 38.5% 43.0% 35.2%
Mar 635 244 38.4% 47.7% 31.3%

Gender Comparison

Male candidates pass at a 8.9pp higher rate than female candidates at Failsworth.

35% 38% 41% 44% 47% 50% 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2007: 38.3% 2008: 35.8% 2009: 35.9% 2010: 38.7% 2011: 36.3% 2012: 35.1% 2007: 46.3% 2008: 47.5% 2009: 45.2% 2010: 48.4% 2011: 45.8% 2012: 44.0%
Male Female

Pass Rate by Age

How do different age groups perform at Failsworth? The chart below shows pass rates for candidates aged 17 to 25, who account for 363.192 of the tests conducted here.

17: 737.0% 18: 993.0% 19: 678.0% 20: 483.0% 21: 465.0% 22: 382.0% 23: 360.0% 24: 303.0% 25: 307.0% 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Age of candidate at test

18-year-olds have the highest pass rate at Failsworth with 993.0% from 40.98360655737705 tests, while 24-year-olds have the lowest at 303.0%. The 690.0 percentage point gap between the best and worst age groups is significant.

AgeTestsPass RateMale RateFemale Rate
1750.355737.0%52.7%142.0%
1840.984993.0%47.3%225.0%
1939.523678.0%46.5%149.0%
2041.197483.0%44.7%117.0%
2139.552465.0%48.7%106.0%
2235.5382.0%48.9%71.0%
2340.67360.0%48.3%85.0%
2437.5303.0%47.6%60.0%
2537.912307.0%46.4%69.0%

Automatic vs Manual

28.5%Automatic Pass Rate
39.2%Overall Pass Rate
316Auto Tests/Year

At Failsworth, the automatic test pass rate is 28.5%, which is 10.7 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 39.2%. 316 automatic tests were conducted here in the latest year.

The lower automatic pass rate compared to overall is unusual. This could reflect a smaller sample size or a particular candidate demographic. Check the trend over time to see if this is consistent.

Male automatic candidates pass at 33.3% compared to 27.2% for females.

Automatic vs overall pass rate trend

25% 29% 33% 37% 41% 45% 2008 2009 2010 2012 2009: 40.4% 2010: 43.2% 2011: 40.8% 2012: 39.2% 2008: 37.5% 2009: 31.2% 2010: 31.8% 2012: 28.5%
Automatic Overall

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