Yeading (London) test centre: 52.8% pass rate, £387 to get through it.

Yeading (London) is a mid-sized centre, putting 6,735 candidates through the car practical test in 2025/26. 3,555 passed, so the centre finished the year on 52.8% and 141st of 308 nationally, 5th of 26 within London.

That lands within 2.8 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 4.0 points above the 48.8% London average, which makes Yeading (London) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 52.8% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.89 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Yeading (London) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.89 times, or £117. Add 0.89 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the London rate of £43 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £269. The test cycle at Yeading (London) is therefore about £387. Testing here therefore saves about £38 against a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, because the higher pass rate buys back part of an attempt.

A fail at Yeading (London) costs time as well as money. The median wait between booking and testing was 12.6 weeks in July 2026, 0.7 weeks above the 11.9-week national median. At 0.89 expected retakes that is about 11.3 weeks of additional queueing, and most learners keep paying for an hour or two a month through it. In the same month DVSA offered 1,145 standard slots inside the booking window here and 4.2% of them were still free to book.

The first-attempt picture is harder here than the headline. 3,657 candidates sat their first test at Yeading (London) and 1,863 passed, 50.9%, which is 1.8 points below the all-attempts rate. 71 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 1.94% of them. Budget for the second booking from the start rather than treating it as the exception.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Yeading (London) has risen by 14.1 points, from 38.6% to 52.8%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 5,856 to 6,735 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £252 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 54.0% and female candidates at 50.0%, a gap of 4.0 points across 4,704 and 2,031 tests. Automatic tests accounted for 30.2% of the 6,735 tests and passed at 51.9%, 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 48.1% in April 2025 to 58.4% in February 2026, a 10.3-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in London runs more than five points ahead of Yeading (London) 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.