Beverley LGV test centre: 54.1% pass rate, £305 to get through it.

Beverley LGV is a very small centre by DVSA standards: 159 car practical tests in 2025/26, of which 86 were passes, giving 54.1%. At that volume a run of two or three unusual weeks moves the annual figure visibly, so treat the number as a guide to the roads rather than a precise ranking. It sits 113th of 308 nationally and 11th of 29 in Yorkshire and The Humber.

That is 4.1 percentage points above the 50.03% recorded across all 317 centres, and 3.6 points above the 50.5% Yorkshire and The Humber 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 54.1% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 1.85 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Beverley LGV pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 1.85 times, or £115. Add 0.85 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 £190. The test cycle at Beverley LGV is therefore about £305. Testing here therefore saves about £43 against a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, because the higher pass rate buys back part of an attempt.

Booking is the one thing that is not painful here. The median wait between booking and taking a test at Beverley LGV was 5.6 weeks in March 2026, 6.3 weeks shorter than the 11.9-week median, so the 0.85 expected retakes add only around 4.8 weeks in total. A short queue makes a fail cheaper in practice, because it cuts the months of drift where skills fade and lessons restart. In the same month DVSA offered 3 standard slots inside the booking window here and 0.0% of them were still free to book.

First-timers do better than the headline suggests. Of 62 first attempts at Beverley LGV, 40 passed, a rate of 64.5%, which is 10.4 points above the all-attempts figure. 1 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 1.61% 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.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Beverley LGV has fallen by 4.4 points, from 58.5% to 54.1%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 65 to 159 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £40 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 50.5% and female candidates at 60.3%, a gap of 9.8 points across 101 and 58 tests. Automatic tests made up 25.2% of the workload and passed at 45.0%, 9.1 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium.

Among centres of a similar size in Yorkshire and The Humber, Malton runs 10.2 points higher at 64.3%. On the same arithmetic that is roughly £84 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.