West Didsbury Driving Test Centre

West Didsbury (Manchester) Driving Test Centre

📍 West Didsbury Greater Manchester North West England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 1pts below

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

About West Didsbury (Manchester) driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about West Didsbury (Manchester) driving test centre in West Didsbury, Greater Manchester, North West England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for West Didsbury (Manchester) 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

47.7%

Overall pass rate i

48.1%

First-attempt pass rate i

304

First-time faultless passes i

17,806

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for West Didsbury (Manchester)

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

For West Didsbury (Manchester) in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 50% compared with 43.1% for automatic tests, a difference of 6.9 percentage points.

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

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for West Didsbury (Manchester)

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

First-time candidates at West Didsbury (Manchester) passed at 48.1% in 2025/2026, which is 0.4 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 47.7%.

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

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for West Didsbury (Manchester)

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

At West Didsbury (Manchester) in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 63.9%. 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 West Didsbury (Manchester)

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

In West Didsbury (Manchester) for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 50.3%, which is 5.6 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 44.7%.

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

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