Barking (Tanner Street) test centre: 36.3% pass rate, £700 to get through it.
DVSA conducted 5,543 car practical tests here between April 2025 and March 2026, and 2,011 candidates passed. On the expected-attempts arithmetic that is 2.76 attempts, £171 in DVSA fees and £529 of retake lessons before a licence.
- Pass rate
- 36.3%
- Tests conducted
- 5,543
- National rank
- 306
- Median wait
- n/a
-13.8 pts vs national
2,011 passes
of 308 ranked centres
not published
What passing at Barking (Tanner Street) costs
Expected cost of the test cycle for the average candidate at a 36.3% centre.
- Expected attempts (1 ÷ pass rate)2.76
- DVSA fees at £62 weekday£171
- Retake lessons (1.76 × 7 hr × £43)£529
- Test cycle at this centre£700
- Against a national-average centre+£275
- Extra queue time from retakesn/a
Add the parts that do not change with the centre and the full bill from provisional to licence at London lesson rates is about £2,692: £34 provisional, £23 theory, 45 hours of tuition at £43 (£1,935) and the test cycle above. Full cost stack.
What 36.3% at Barking (Tanner Street) actually means for your budget.
Barking (Tanner Street) is a mid-sized centre, putting 5,543 candidates through the car practical test in 2025/26. 2,011 passed, so the centre finished the year on 36.3% and 306th of 308 nationally, 26th of 26 within London.
That is 13.8 percentage points below the 50.03% national figure, and 12.5 points below the 48.8% average for London. Low pass rates cluster where test routes carry heavy traffic, multi-lane junctions and frequent bus lanes. The examiners are not stricter; the roads give a candidate more chances to make a serious fault.
Turn 36.3% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 2.76 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Barking (Tanner Street) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 2.76 times, or £171. Add 1.76 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the London rate of £43 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £529. The test cycle at Barking (Tanner Street) is therefore about £700. Testing here therefore costs about £275 more than the same candidate would spend at a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, purely because of the extra attempt the pass rate implies.
The first-attempt picture is harder here than the headline. 2,542 candidates sat their first test at Barking (Tanner Street) and 777 passed, 30.6%, which is 5.7 points below the all-attempts rate. 16 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 0.63% of them. Budget for the second booking from the start rather than treating it as the exception.
Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Barking (Tanner Street) has fallen by 5.4 points, from 41.7% to 36.3%. Test volume has shrunk over the same span, from 7,665 to 5,543 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £130 to the average candidate.
Male candidates passed at 37.5% and female candidates at 34.3%, a gap of 3.3 points across 3,450 and 2,093 tests. Automatic tests made up 46.3% of the workload and passed at 33.4%, 2.9 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 33.2% in May 2025 to 40.3% in August 2025, a 7.1-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.
Among centres of a similar size in London, Erith (London) runs 15.4 points higher at 51.6%. On the same arithmetic that is roughly £298 of expected difference. Before moving, price the switch: a new instructor or extra travel for route familiarity typically costs £60 to £120 plus two settling-in lessons, which eats most of a gap under about eight points.
Barking (Tanner Street) vs its region and the country.
- Rank in London
- 26 of 26
- First-attempt rate
- 30.6%
- Zero-fault first passes
- 16
- Automatic pass rate
- 33.4%
- Male candidates
- 37.5%
- Female candidates
- 34.3%
-12.5 pts vs region
2,542 first tests
0.63% of first attempts
46.3% of tests here
3,450 tests
2,093 tests
Down 5.4 points since 2021/22.
Dashed line: the 50.03% national pass rate for 2025/26.
Weeks between booking and taking the test, DVSA table DRT122F.
A 17-year-old passes at 45.4% here. A 25-year-old passes at 44.8%.
The single figure most people quote for Barking (Tanner Street) is the all-ages 36.3%. Underneath it, 163 tests by 17-year-olds returned 45.4% and 270 by 25-year-olds returned 44.8%. The 0.6-point difference between them is small enough that age barely sorts candidates here, which is unusual: nationally the same two ages are 14.9 points apart.
Put that through the same arithmetic the rest of this page uses and the gap stops being academic. A 17-year-old at Barking (Tanner Street) expects 2.20 attempts, £499 in fees and retake lessons. A 25-year-old expects 2.23 attempts and £509, £10 more on identical £62 fees and the same £43 London lesson rate. The only thing that moved was the pass rate.
17-year-olds here pass 18.2 points below the 63.6% that 17-year-olds manage nationally. Against London, where the same age passes 61.0%, they are 15.6 points behind. Either way, budgeting a 17-year-old against this centre's all-ages 36.3% is pessimistic by 9.1 points.
Barking (Tanner Street) is large enough that DVSA published every age cell from 17 to 25 with its counts intact, which is true of 187 of the 307 centre pages here. Nothing in the table above is withheld, rounded up from a small base or filled in by us.
Age here is a proxy, and it is worth saying so plainly. The DVSA figures carry no information about lesson history, instructor or hours, so the gap above is what the record shows rather than an explanation of it. The practical implication is about continuity of tuition, not about waiting or not waiting to book.
- Age 17 here
- 45.4%
- Age 25 here
- 44.8%
- Age gap
- +0.6 pts
- Age 17 vs country
- -18.2 pts
163 tests
270 tests
national gap +14.9 pts
63.6% nationally
Pass rate by age at Barking (Tanner Street)
DVSA table DRT122D, April 2025 to March 2026. Dashed line is the same age across Great Britain.
What each age costs at Barking (Tanner Street), on the same arithmetic as the rest of this page.
Expected attempts is 1 ÷ the pass rate for that age, fees are £62 an attempt and retake lessons are 7 hours at the London rate of £43. Ages where DVSA withheld the counts are shown as withheld and are not priced: a rate the agency would not put a denominator against is not a rate to budget from.
| Age | Tests conducted | Passes | Pass rate | Expected attempts | Test cycle cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 163 | 74 | 45.4% | 2.20 | £499 |
| 18 | 327 | 130 | 39.8% | 2.52 | £612 |
| 19 | 458 | 174 | 38.0% | 2.63 | £655 |
| 20 | 375 | 180 | 48.0% | 2.08 | £455 |
| 21 | 305 | 123 | 40.3% | 2.48 | £599 |
| 22 | 288 | 111 | 38.5% | 2.59 | £641 |
| 23 | 264 | 98 | 37.1% | 2.69 | £677 |
| 24 | 230 | 84 | 36.5% | 2.74 | £693 |
| 25 | 270 | 121 | 44.8% | 2.23 | £509 |
| Under 26 | 2,680 | 1,095 | 40.9% | 2.45 | £587 |
| All ages | 5,543 | 2,011 | 36.3% | 2.76 | £700 |
The under-26 row is DVSA’s own block total from DRT122D and counts the withheld cells, so it will exceed the sum of the ages printed above it wherever a cell is withheld. The all-ages row is DRT122A, the figure the rest of this page uses. Nothing on this table is estimated or back-filled.
What the age gap is worth at Barking (Tanner Street)
- Expected attempts, age 172.20
- Expected attempts, age 252.23
- Test cycle at age 17£499
- Test cycle at age 25£509
- Cost of waiting from 17 to 25+£10
Pass rates are DVSA’s. The pounds are ours, on the same fee and lesson rate the rest of this page uses, applied to each age’s published rate and nothing else. Age is not the cause: the DVSA figures describe who passed, not why, and a 17-year-old mid-course typically arrives with recent, continuous tuition behind them. The national age curve.
Every published financial year at Barking (Tanner Street).
| Financial year | Conducted | Passed | Pass rate | Expected attempts | Test cycle cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 5,543 | 2,011 | 36.3% | 2.76 | £700 |
| 2024/25 | 7,499 | 2,842 | 37.9% | 2.64 | £657 |
| 2023/24 | 6,842 | 2,637 | 38.5% | 2.59 | £641 |
| 2022/23 | 5,294 | 2,049 | 38.7% | 2.58 | £637 |
| 2021/22 | 7,665 | 3,198 | 41.7% | 2.40 | £569 |
| 2020/21 | 2,641 | 1,076 | 40.7% | 2.45 | £590 |
| 2019/20 | 9,059 | 3,463 | 38.2% | 2.62 | £649 |
| 2018/19 | 6,607 | 2,277 | 34.5% | 2.90 | £752 |
| 2017/18 | 5,114 | 1,753 | 34.3% | 2.92 | £758 |
| 2016/17 | 7,902 | 2,788 | 35.3% | 2.83 | £728 |
Cost columns apply today’s £62 fee and the current £43 lesson rate to each year’s pass rate, so the column isolates what the pass rate does to the bill. The fee itself has moved over time; see fee history.
A 7.1-point swing across the year.
Monthly figures are why a single quarter is a poor guide. Nothing about the centre changed between May 2025 and August 2025; the mix of candidates did.
| Month | Conducted | Passed | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | 625 | 228 | 36.5% |
| May 2025 | 524 | 174 | 33.2% |
| June 2025 | 703 | 249 | 35.4% |
| July 2025 | 712 | 270 | 37.9% |
| August 2025 | 506 | 204 | 40.3% |
| September 2025 | 636 | 221 | 34.8% |
| October 2025 | 650 | 250 | 38.5% |
| November 2025 | 707 | 244 | 34.5% |
The five London centres closest in size to Barking (Tanner Street).
Matched on annual test volume rather than distance, because a centre doing 5,543 tests a year faces a comparable road and traffic mix. Cost column uses the London lesson rate of £43 throughout, so the only variable is the pass rate.
| Centre | Pass rate | Tests | Median wait | Test cycle cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking (Tanner Street) (this centre) | 36.3% | 5,543 | n/a | £700 |
| Erith (London) | 51.6% | 5,809 | 7 wk | £402 |
| Uxbridge (London) | 52.3% | 6,051 | 11.8 wk | £393 |
| Yeading (London) | 52.8% | 6,735 | 12.6 wk | £387 |
| Belvedere (London) | 40.5% | 4,245 | 9.4 wk | £595 |
| Greenford (Horsenden Lane) | 41.4% | 7,222 | 10.7 wk | £575 |
Higher pass rate in London
- Chingford (London)39.9%
- Belvedere (London)40.5%
- Greenford (Horsenden Lane)41.4%
- Goodmayes (London)43.7%
Source and provenance
Pass rates, test volumes, gender splits and waiting times on this page are published statistics from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), taken from Driving test and theory test data: cars, tables DRT122A (Car driving test pass rates by gender and month: test centres, updated 2026-06-25), DRT122C (Car driving test pass rates by first driving attempt and gender, including zero faults: test centres, updated 2026-06-25), DRT122D (Car driving test pass rates by age (17 to 25 year olds), year and test centre, updated 2026-06-25), DRT122E (Automatic car driving test pass rates by gender: test centres, updated 2026-06-25) and DRT122F (Car driving test waiting times and availability by driving test centre, updated 2026-08-12). Centre-level figures cover the April 2025 to March 2026 financial year; the national quarterly series runs to June 2026. Snapshot taken 2026-09-04.
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Age figures are single years of age from DRT122D and are reproduced exactly as published, withheld cells included. DVSA replaces the counts in small age cells with “..”, in most cases while still printing that cell’s pass rate; those cells are shown here as withheld and are excluded from every comparison, ranking and cost figure on this page. Nothing withheld is reconstructed from the block total.