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Penzance driving test centre

South West, England

Penzance at a glance

Pass rate
46.5%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
14.4 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
507
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
2.4%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Penzance compares

Penzance passes 46.5% of car tests, which is 3.6 points below the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 14.4 weeks, 2.3 weeks longer than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 507 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 46.3% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

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Trends at Penzance

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 46.3%

40%48%56%GB averageMar 24Jul 24Nov 24Mar 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Penzance driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
46.3%
45.5%
42.3%
49%
41.2%
47.1%
50.7%
46%
50%
42.9%
50%
44.6%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 14.4w

12w17w21wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Aug 25Dec 25Apr 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Penzance, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
14.4 weeks
13.4 weeks
16.9 weeks
13 weeks
16.4 weeks
14.4 weeks
14.1 weeks
17.9 weeks
18.7 weeks
14.1 weeks
13 weeks
19.3 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2026: 67

476073Mar 24Jul 24Nov 24Mar 25Oct 25Feb 26Mar 26
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Penzance, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
67
55
52
51
51
51
69
50
48
65
55
56

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Penzance driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 507 236 46.5%
2024-25 671 330 49.2%
2023-24 661 345 52.2%
2022-23 929 442 47.6%
2021-22 662 341 51.5%
2019-20 1,561 738 47.3%
2018-19 1,518 753 49.6%
2017-18 1,583 813 51.4%
2016-17 1,492 787 52.7%
2015-16 1,489 805 54.1%

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 Penzance 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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