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If You Want to Pass Your Driving Test Don't Take it in Wood Green
Insurance broker Marmalade claim to have analysed 10 years of pass rate data from every driving test centre in the UK to reveal the ten spots with the highest and lowest pass rates, and the best and worst months to take your test in each location.
The Test Centre with the fourth lowest pass rate on the country was Wood Green with a pass rate of just over 36%.
That compared with a 49% pass rate chalked up by the best scoring tetst centre in Ashford Middlesex.
The company offer a 'pass rate probability' calculator, which I assume is intended more as a bit of fun than as a practical tool (though their small footnote at the bottom of the calculator page suggested that perhaps the young drivers at who it is aimed take it rather more seriously).
Full results below
| Position | Driving Test Centre | Pass rate (based on 10 years of data) |
| 1 | Ashford -London Middlesex | 49.21% |
| 2 | Tolworth | 49.09% |
| 3 | Carshalton | 47.67% |
| 4 | Uxbridge | 46.63% |
| 5 | Pinner | 45.74% |
| 6 | Hendon | 44.88% |
| 7 | Sidcup | 44.16% |
| 8 | Isleworth | 43.30% |
| 9 | Hornchurch (Romford) | 42.51% |
| 10 | Mill Hill | 41.99% |
| 11 | Greenford -Whitton Ave East | 41.29% |
| 12 | Southall | 40.95% |
| 13 | Hither Green | 40.66% |
| 14 | Hayes | 40.58% |
| 15 | Croydon | 40.36% |
| 16 | Bromley Court | 40.05% |
| 17 | Greenford -Horsenden Lane | 39.34% |
| 18 | Chingford | 37.73% |
| 19 | Tottenham | 37.58% |
| 20 | Enfield -Innova Business Park | 37.41% |
| 21 | Goodmayes (Ilford) | 37.18% |
| 22 | Barking -Town Quay | 36.49% |
| 23 | Wood Green | 36.44% |
| 24 | Barnet | 35.49% |
| 25 | Barking -Tanner Street | 35.38% |
| 26 | Wanstead | 32.13% |
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Geraldine on
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Took mine 40 years ago in Isleworth because that's where Prince Charles had taken his!
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Permalink Reply by Paul Soper on
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Nothing changes - we used to avoid Wood Green as a test centre in 1970 - Palmers Green was much better...
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Permalink Reply by Roy aka Smiffy on
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I took my motorcycle test in Wood Green in about 1965. On my little ancient and temperamental 125cc Excelsior two-stroke I was told to ride around the block while the examiner stood on the kerb observing me as I passed by.
He signalled me to stop and then told me that he’d ask me to do an emergency stop by stepping into the road and raising his clip-board. Off I went and while out of his sight my throttle cable became attached which took a few minuets to re-connect. Rounding the bend I saw that he was about to step out and I braked – a good 50 yards away.
Very irritated he waved me forward and asked a couple of road sign questions and that was it, I’d passed.
I think he was impressed that I was wearing a crash helmet.
Today road conditions and congestion are very different from those far-off days - but it pays to just be patient and considerate.
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