Morden (London) test centre: 51.0% pass rate, £411 to get through it.

Over 2025/26 the examiners at Morden (London) conducted 15,770 car practical tests and issued 8,036 passes. The resulting 51.0% makes it one of the busiest centres in Great Britain sitting 183rd of 308 on the national pass-rate table and 11th of 26 in London.

That lands within 0.9 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 2.2 points above the 48.8% London average, which makes Morden (London) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 51.0% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.96 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Morden (London) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.96 times, or £122. Add 0.96 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the London rate of £43 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £290. The test cycle at Morden (London) is therefore about £411. That is within £14 of what the same cycle costs at a centre on the national average, so Morden (London) is close to cost-neutral as a choice.

A fail at Morden (London) costs time as well as money. The median wait between booking and testing was 14.3 weeks in July 2026, 2.4 weeks above the 11.9-week national median. At 0.96 expected retakes that is about 13.8 weeks of additional queueing, and most learners keep paying for an hour or two a month through it. In the same month DVSA offered 5,205 standard slots inside the booking window here and 5.0% of them were still free to book.

First attempts track the headline closely: 4,380 passes from 8,690 first tests at Morden (London), 50.4% against 51.0% for all attempts. 140 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 1.61% of them.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Morden (London) has risen by 3.5 points, from 47.5% to 51.0%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 13,305 to 15,770 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £53 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 52.7% and female candidates at 49.0%, a gap of 3.6 points across 8,292 and 7,478 tests. Automatic tests accounted for 42.9% of the 15,770 tests and passed at 49.8%, close enough to the overall rate that gearbox choice is a comfort decision here, not a pass-rate one. Month to month the rate ran from 48.6% in December 2025 to 52.3% in July 2025, a 3.7-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

Among centres of a similar size in London, Sidcup (London) runs 7.7 points higher at 58.7%. On the same arithmetic that is roughly £94 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.