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Basingstoke driving test centre

South East, England · Sullivan Road, Brighton Hill, Basingstoke and Deane · RG22 4LR

Basingstoke at a glance

Pass rate
56.8%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
18 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
5,009
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
6.7%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Basingstoke compares

Basingstoke passes 56.8% of car tests, which is 6.7 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 18 weeks, 5.9 weeks longer than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 5,009 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 57.7% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

Trends at Basingstoke

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 57.7%

50%56%61%GB averageApr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Basingstoke driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
57.7%
57.9%
60.5%
59.8%
54.1%
53.5%
60.1%
56.8%
54.4%
52.6%
54.2%
61.4%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 18.0w

7w14w22wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Mar 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Basingstoke, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
18 weeks
18.9 weeks
21.9 weeks
17.1 weeks
20 weeks
18.1 weeks
17 weeks
22.3 weeks
17 weeks
20.3 weeks
12.1 weeks
11.7 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2026: 364

302398494Apr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Basingstoke, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
364
404
420
388
418
441
491
398
498
458
397
332

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Basingstoke driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 5,009 2,844 56.8%
2024-25 4,940 2,809 56.9%
2023-24 4,792 2,781 58%
2022-23 4,214 2,585 61.3%
2021-22 4,388 2,575 58.7%
2020-21 1,415 793 56%
2019-20 4,558 2,265 49.7%
2018-19 4,463 2,255 50.5%
2017-18 4,923 2,246 45.6%
2016-17 5,466 2,354 43.1%

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 Basingstoke 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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