Reading driving test centre
South East, England
Reading at a glance
- Pass rate
- 55.4%
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Average wait
- 13.9 weeks
- August 2026
- Tests a year
- 9,237
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Slots still free
- 34.6%
- Of the 24-week booking window
How Reading compares
Reading passes 55.4% of car tests, which is 5.3 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 13.9 weeks, 1.1 weeks longer than the national average of 12.8 weeks. It conducted 9,237 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 54.7% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.
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Trends at Reading
Pass rate
Mar 2026: 54.7%
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| Month | Pass rate |
|---|---|
| 54.7% | |
| 50.6% | |
| 50.6% | |
| 49.4% | |
| 57.6% | |
| 59.1% | |
| 62.3% | |
| 61.2% | |
| 58.2% | |
| 55.9% | |
| 57.5% | |
| 53.6% |
Waiting time
Aug 2026: 13.9w
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| Month | Average wait |
|---|---|
| 13.9 weeks | |
| 13.9 weeks | |
| 11.6 weeks | |
| 4.3 weeks | |
| 5.9 weeks | |
| 5 weeks | |
| 5.1 weeks | |
| 10.8 weeks | |
| 8.1 weeks | |
| 10 weeks | |
| 22.4 weeks | |
| 22.5 weeks |
Tests conducted each month
Mar 2026: 1178
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| Month | Tests conducted |
|---|---|
| 1,178 | |
| 1,078 | |
| 1,024 | |
| 595 | |
| 776 | |
| 719 | |
| 472 | |
| 745 | |
| 716 | |
| 671 | |
| 668 | |
| 595 |
Year by year
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 9,237 | 5,118 | 55.4% |
| 2024-25 | 6,877 | 3,427 | 49.8% |
| 2023-24 | 6,766 | 3,238 | 47.9% |
| 2022-23 | 8,258 | 4,487 | 54.3% |
| 2021-22 | 11,031 | 5,877 | 53.3% |
| 2020-21 | 3,039 | 1,663 | 54.7% |
| 2019-20 | 12,192 | 5,831 | 47.8% |
| 2018-19 | 11,738 | 5,450 | 46.4% |
| 2017-18 | 11,802 | 5,701 | 48.3% |
| 2016-17 | 12,633 | 5,829 | 46.1% |
Where it is
Nearby test centres
There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.
- Chichester
1 km away
61.6% pass · 4.7 weeks wait
- Basildon
7 km away
49.1% pass · 4.8 weeks wait
- Sunderland
9 km away
51.1% pass · 8.9 weeks wait
- Sevenoaks
11 km away
59% pass · 10.4 weeks wait
- Gateshead
11 km away
37.5% pass · 7.1 weeks wait
- Gosforth
12 km away
48.4% pass · 16.3 weeks wait
Everything on this page describes Reading 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 August 2026. This page was last updated .
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