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Sevenoaks driving test centre

South East, England

Sevenoaks at a glance

Pass rate
59%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
11.4 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
6,740
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
5.3%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Sevenoaks compares

Sevenoaks passes 59% of car tests, which is 8.9 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 11.4 weeks, 0.7 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 6,740 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 64.5% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

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Trends at Sevenoaks

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 64.5%

50%57%64%GB averageApr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Sevenoaks driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
64.5%
61.4%
62.2%
61.2%
57.2%
56.3%
55.1%
63.7%
55.8%
56.9%
58%
59.3%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 11.4w

7w11w15wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Mar 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Sevenoaks, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
11.4 weeks
12 weeks
9.7 weeks
15.1 weeks
13.1 weeks
14.1 weeks
10.4 weeks
9.9 weeks
10.9 weeks
10.9 weeks
9.7 weeks
8 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2026: 538

341508675Apr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Sevenoaks, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
538
477
513
606
615
682
635
441
640
582
498
513

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Sevenoaks driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 6,740 3,978 59%
2024-25 6,386 3,421 53.6%
2023-24 5,806 2,827 48.7%
2022-23 4,921 2,642 53.7%
2021-22 3,765 2,240 59.5%
2020-21 684 366 53.5%
2019-20 4,397 2,262 51.4%
2018-19 5,173 2,628 50.8%
2017-18 5,211 2,777 53.3%
2016-17 5,760 3,018 52.4%

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 Sevenoaks 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 .

Practice makes perfect

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