Hull test centre: 47.9% pass rate, £373 to get through it.

9,706 candidates took the car practical test at Hull during 2025/26 and 4,652 of them passed, a pass rate of 47.9%. That is a high-volume centre, ranked 224th of 308 on pass rate, and 20th of 29 inside Yorkshire and The Humber.

That lands within 2.1 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 2.5 points below the 50.5% Yorkshire and The Humber average, which makes Hull an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 47.9% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 2.09 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Hull pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 2.09 times, or £129. Add 1.09 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 £243. The test cycle at Hull is therefore about £373. Testing here therefore costs about £25 more than the same candidate would spend at a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, purely because of the extra attempt the pass rate implies.

A fail at Hull costs time as well as money. The median wait between booking and testing was 14 weeks in July 2026, 2.1 weeks above the 11.9-week national median. At 1.09 expected retakes that is about 15.2 weeks of additional queueing, and most learners keep paying for an hour or two a month through it. In the same month DVSA offered 1,856 standard slots inside the booking window here and 3.6% of them were still free to book.

First-timers do better than the headline suggests. Of 4,921 first attempts at Hull, 2,426 passed, a rate of 49.3%, which is 1.4 points above the all-attempts figure. 164 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 3.33% 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 Hull has fallen by 4.4 points, from 52.3% to 47.9%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 8,023 to 9,706 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £50 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 46.9% and female candidates at 49.2%, a gap of 2.3 points across 5,485 and 4,221 tests. Automatic tests made up 27.6% of the workload and passed at 41.5%, 6.4 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 45.0% in November 2025 to 53.0% in February 2026, a 8.0-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

Among centres of a similar size in Yorkshire and The Humber, York runs 6.5 points higher at 54.4%. On the same arithmetic that is roughly £71 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.