Cambridge (Brookmount Court) test centre: 53.8% pass rate, £332 to get through it.

Over 2025/26 the examiners at Cambridge (Brookmount Court) conducted 13,689 car practical tests and issued 7,366 passes. The resulting 53.8% makes it a high-volume centre sitting 121st of 308 on the national pass-rate table and 6th of 24 in East of England.

That is 3.8 percentage points above the 50.03% recorded across all 317 centres, and 2.4 points above the 51.4% East of England average. A centre in this band is usually working quieter road layouts with fewer forced lane decisions, not a softer marking standard: the DVSA marking sheet is national.

Turn 53.8% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.86 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Cambridge (Brookmount Court) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.86 times, or £115. Add 0.86 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the East of England rate of £36 an hour (the closest published band on our regional lesson table), and the extra lessons come to £216. The test cycle at Cambridge (Brookmount Court) is therefore about £332. Testing here therefore saves about £44 against a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, because the higher pass rate buys back part of an attempt.

The queue is the expensive part at Cambridge (Brookmount Court). DVSA recorded a median wait of 20.1 weeks between booking and taking a test in July 2026, 8.2 weeks longer than the 11.9-week median across all centres. Multiply that by the 0.86 expected retakes and a candidate here is looking at roughly 17.3 extra weeks of waiting, close to 4 months of insurance, lesson top-ups and a licence still not in the post. In the same month DVSA offered 4,730 standard slots inside the booking window here and 0.6% of them were still free to book.

First attempts track the headline closely: 3,852 passes from 7,215 first tests at Cambridge (Brookmount Court), 53.4% against 53.8% for all attempts. 124 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 1.72% of them.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Cambridge (Brookmount Court) has risen by 5.7 points, from 48.1% to 53.8%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 9,534 to 13,689 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £70 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 55.5% and female candidates at 51.9%, a gap of 3.7 points across 7,257 and 6,432 tests. Automatic tests made up 30.0% of the workload and passed at 47.9%, 5.9 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 51.3% in October 2025 to 56.2% in March 2026, a 4.9-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

Among centres of a similar size in East of England, Norwich (Peachman Way) runs 7.9 points higher at 61.7%. On the same arithmetic that is roughly £75 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.