Leeds (Fearnville) test centre: 51.8% pass rate, £328 to get through it.

Leeds (Fearnville) is a mid-sized centre, putting 4,676 candidates through the car practical test in 2025/26. 2,422 passed, so the centre finished the year on 51.8% and 159th of 308 nationally, 16th of 29 within Yorkshire and The Humber.

That lands within 1.8 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 1.3 points above the 50.5% Yorkshire and The Humber average, which makes Leeds (Fearnville) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 51.8% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.93 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Leeds (Fearnville) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.93 times, or £120. Add 0.93 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the Yorkshire & Humber rate of £32 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £208. The test cycle at Leeds (Fearnville) is therefore about £328. Testing here therefore saves about £20 against a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, because the higher pass rate buys back part of an attempt.

Waiting time at Leeds (Fearnville) ran to a median 9.6 weeks between booking and test in July 2026, 2.3 weeks below the 11.9-week national median. Across 0.93 expected retakes that is roughly 8.9 weeks of extra queueing before a licence arrives. In the same month DVSA offered 1,526 standard slots inside the booking window here and 4.7% of them were still free to book.

First-timers do better than the headline suggests. Of 2,032 first attempts at Leeds (Fearnville), 1,073 passed, a rate of 52.8%, which is 1.0 points above the all-attempts figure. 58 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 2.85% of them. The gap says the candidates arriving well prepared are getting through, and the all-attempts rate is being pulled down by repeat attempts.

Male candidates passed at 54.2% and female candidates at 48.9%, a gap of 5.3 points across 2,576 and 2,100 tests. Automatic tests made up 37.2% of the workload and passed at 47.6%, 4.2 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 44.4% in October 2025 to 59.9% in May 2025, a 15.5-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in Yorkshire and The Humber runs more than five points ahead of Leeds (Fearnville) on pass rate, so travelling elsewhere is unlikely to pay for itself once you add an unfamiliar route, the travel and the settling-in lessons. The cheaper lever here is preparation on the roads your instructor already knows.