Yeovil driving test centre
South West, England
Yeovil at a glance
- Pass rate
- 63.4%
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Average wait
- 10 weeks
- June 2026
- Tests a year
- 7,493
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Slots still free
- 4.7%
- Of the 24-week booking window
How Yeovil compares
Yeovil passes 63.4% of car tests, which is 13.3 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 10 weeks, 2.1 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 7,493 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 62.6% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.
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Trends at Yeovil
Pass rate
Mar 2026: 62.6%
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| Month | Pass rate |
|---|---|
| 62.6% | |
| 63.5% | |
| 63.3% | |
| 65.6% | |
| 62.1% | |
| 63.6% | |
| 67.5% | |
| 57.9% | |
| 64.4% | |
| 62.1% | |
| 66.6% | |
| 60.7% |
Waiting time
Jun 2026: 10.0w
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| Month | Average wait |
|---|---|
| 10 weeks | |
| 8.6 weeks | |
| 8.1 weeks | |
| 14.1 weeks | |
| 12 weeks | |
| 13 weeks | |
| 12.3 weeks | |
| 13.4 weeks | |
| 11.7 weeks | |
| 14.4 weeks | |
| 13.1 weeks | |
| 16 weeks |
Tests conducted each month
Mar 2026: 661
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| Month | Tests conducted |
|---|---|
| 661 | |
| 655 | |
| 765 | |
| 581 | |
| 596 | |
| 829 | |
| 603 | |
| 506 | |
| 644 | |
| 528 | |
| 586 | |
| 539 |
Year by year
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 7,493 | 4,752 | 63.4% |
| 2024-25 | 5,754 | 3,433 | 59.7% |
| 2023-24 | 6,946 | 4,146 | 59.7% |
| 2022-23 | 5,377 | 3,216 | 59.8% |
| 2021-22 | 5,226 | 3,371 | 64.5% |
| 2020-21 | 1,578 | 1,051 | 66.6% |
| 2019-20 | 4,933 | 2,955 | 59.9% |
| 2018-19 | 4,967 | 3,074 | 61.9% |
| 2017-18 | 5,306 | 3,250 | 61.3% |
| 2016-17 | 5,774 | 3,391 | 58.7% |
Where it is
Nearby test centres
There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.
- Dorchester
28 km away
69% pass · 6.4 weeks wait
- Taunton
33 km away
59.5% pass · 12.1 weeks wait
- Weston-super-Mare
51 km away
61% pass · 4 weeks wait
- Trowbridge
51 km away
55.2% pass · 7.7 weeks wait
- Bristol (Avonmouth)
60 km away
55.5% pass · 5.1 weeks wait
- Bristol (Kingswood)
60 km away
51.9% pass · 7.6 weeks wait
Everything on this page describes Yeovil 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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