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Melton Mowbray driving test centre

East Midlands, England · Nottingham Road, Melton Mowbray, Melton · LE13 0GP

Melton Mowbray at a glance

Pass rate
69.7%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
21.7 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
1,984
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
0.8%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Melton Mowbray compares

Melton Mowbray passes 69.7% of car tests, which is 19.6 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 21.7 weeks, 9.6 weeks longer than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 1,984 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 65.3% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

Trends at Melton Mowbray

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 65.3%

51%64%77%GB averageApr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Melton Mowbray driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
65.3%
69.3%
73.5%
66.7%
74.2%
77.4%
70.8%
72%
67.1%
66.7%
70.5%
65.1%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 21.7w

8w15w22wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Mar 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Melton Mowbray, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
21.7 weeks
21.3 weeks
19.4 weeks
18.1 weeks
13.9 weeks
16 weeks
16 weeks
22.1 weeks
20 weeks
21.1 weeks
20 weeks
19.6 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2026: 239

125199272Apr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Melton Mowbray, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
239
238
211
192
155
137
137
125
158
144
122
126

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Melton Mowbray driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 1,984 1,382 69.7%
2024-25 2,486 1,589 63.9%
2023-24 2,427 1,451 59.8%
2022-23 2,159 1,337 61.9%
2021-22 1,873 1,175 62.7%
2020-21 479 279 58.2%
2019-20 1,960 1,149 58.6%
2018-19 2,203 1,234 56%
2017-18 2,267 1,256 55.4%
2016-17 1,755 1,019 58.1%

Where it is

Nearby test centres

There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.

Everything on this page describes Melton Mowbray driving test centre. Figures come from the DVSA statistical data sets DRT122A and DRT122F, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Pass rates run to March 2026 and waiting times to June 2026. This page was last updated .

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