Longbenton Driving Test Centre

· Tyne and Wear

42.3%
final pass rate 5,834 tests/year · 7 years of data · DVSA data: 2013-14

Key Statistics

42.3% Overall Pass Rate ▼ -3.5pp
46.4% Male Pass Rate
38.8% Female Pass Rate
43,548 Total Tests (7 years)

Historical Pass Rate Trend

Longbenton pass rate over 7 years

35% 38% 41% 44% 47% 50% 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2007: 38.2% 2008: 45.7% 2009: 46.3% 2010: 47.7% 2011: 46.8% 2012: 45.8% 2013: 42.3%

Monthly Breakdown (2013-14)

Month Tests Passes Pass Rate Male Rate Female Rate
Apr 468 198 42.3% 48.6% 36.9%
May 534 229 42.9% 48.6% 38.1%
Jun 571 229 40.1% 46.5% 34.3%
Jul 445 196 44.0% 47.4% 41.4%
Aug 321 129 40.2% 43.8% 37.1%
Sep 614 264 43.0% 48.6% 38.3%
Oct 455 205 45.1% 52.6% 39.6%
Nov 575 232 40.3% 42.9% 38.5%
Dec 410 166 40.5% 42.7% 38.8%
Jan 477 215 45.1% 47.1% 43.3%
Feb 462 190 41.1% 40.8% 41.5%
Mar 502 213 42.4% 46.1% 39.0%

Gender Comparison

Male candidates pass at a 7.6pp higher rate than female candidates at Longbenton.

35% 39% 43% 47% 51% 55% 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2007: 35.1% 2008: 41.5% 2009: 42.2% 2010: 43.0% 2011: 43.5% 2012: 42.1% 2013: 38.8% 2007: 41.7% 2008: 50.5% 2009: 50.6% 2010: 52.8% 2011: 50.3% 2012: 50.2% 2013: 46.4%
Male Female

Pass Rate by Age

How do different age groups perform at Longbenton? The chart below shows pass rates for candidates aged 17 to 25, who account for 359.988 of the tests conducted here.

17: 828.0% 18: 802.0% 19: 484.0% 20: 329.0% 21: 339.0% 22: 299.0% 23: 271.0% 24: 195.0% 25: 249.0% 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Age of candidate at test

17-year-olds have the highest pass rate at Longbenton with 828.0% from 46.095717884130984 tests, while 24-year-olds have the lowest at 195.0%. This is unusual. Nationally, 17-year-olds often have lower pass rates due to less driving experience. The 633.0 percentage point gap between the best and worst age groups is significant.

AgeTestsPass RateMale RateFemale Rate
1746.096828.0%56.6%183.0%
1840.777802.0%44.9%168.0%
1943.902484.0%44.1%108.0%
2040.686329.0%48.0%83.0%
2137.5339.0%44.6%75.0%
2245.833299.0%44.3%77.0%
2337.5271.0%50.5%63.0%
2437.624195.0%44.7%38.0%
2530.07249.0%46.2%43.0%

Automatic vs Manual

38.5%Automatic Pass Rate
42.3%Overall Pass Rate
182Auto Tests/Year

At Longbenton, the automatic test pass rate is 38.5%, which is 3.8 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 42.3%. 182 automatic tests were conducted here in the latest year.

Female automatic candidates pass at 38.9% compared to 36.8% for males.

Automatic vs overall pass rate trend

35% 38% 41% 44% 47% 50% 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 2009: 46.3% 2010: 47.7% 2011: 46.8% 2012: 45.8% 2013: 42.3% 2008: 38.9% 2009: 42.4% 2010: 35.8% 2012: 35.2% 2013: 38.5%
Automatic Overall

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