Newport Driving Test Centre

Newport (Isle of Wight) Driving Test Centre

📍 Newport Hampshire South East England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 5.4pts above

The national average is combined from all the test centres where Veygo has data from gov.uk in 2025/2026.

About Newport (Isle of Wight) driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Newport (Isle of Wight) driving test centre in Newport, Hampshire, South East England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Newport (Isle of Wight) across demographics, vehicle types, number of attempts, and age. You can find the map location for the test centre and directions here.

Latest DVSA data, 2025/2026

54.1%

Overall pass rate i

56.4%

First-attempt pass rate i

First-time faultless passes i

3,616

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Newport (Isle of Wight)

Pass rates for automatic and manual car tests, side by side across five years.

For Newport (Isle of Wight) in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 56.6% compared with 44.9% for automatic tests, a difference of 11.7 percentage points.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Newport (Isle of Wight)

How first-time candidates perform, including the rate of faultless passes over time.

First-time candidates at Newport (Isle of Wight) passed at 56.4% in 2025/2026, which is 2.3 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 54.1%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Newport (Isle of Wight)

How pass rates vary by candidate age, from 17 to 25, in the latest year of data.

At Newport (Isle of Wight) in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 63.1%. Pass rates generally shift with age, and this chart shows how each age from 17 to 25 performed.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

Performance over time

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Pass rate by gender for Newport (Isle of Wight)

How male and female pass rates at this centre have changed over the last five years.

In Newport (Isle of Wight) for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 54.4%, which is 0.5 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 53.9%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

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