Warwick (Wedgenock House) test centre: 48.5% pass rate, £380 to get through it.

Warwick (Wedgenock House) is one of the busiest centres in Great Britain, putting 15,070 candidates through the car practical test in 2025/26. 7,313 passed, so the centre finished the year on 48.5% and 216th of 308 nationally, 15th of 26 within West Midlands.

That lands within 1.5 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 2.3 points above the 46.2% West Midlands average, which makes Warwick (Wedgenock House) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 48.5% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 2.06 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Warwick (Wedgenock House) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 2.06 times, or £128. Add 1.06 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the West Midlands rate of £34 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £252. The test cycle at Warwick (Wedgenock House) is therefore about £380. Testing here therefore costs about £18 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 Warwick (Wedgenock House) costs time as well as money. The median wait between booking and testing was 18 weeks in July 2026, 6.1 weeks above the 11.9-week national median. At 1.06 expected retakes that is about 19.1 weeks of additional queueing, and most learners keep paying for an hour or two a month through it. In the same month DVSA offered 3,160 standard slots inside the booking window here and 4.5% of them were still free to book.

The first-attempt picture is harder here than the headline. 7,035 candidates sat their first test at Warwick (Wedgenock House) and 3,326 passed, 47.3%, which is 1.3 points below the all-attempts rate. 47 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 0.67% of them. Budget for the second booking from the start rather than treating it as the exception.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Warwick (Wedgenock House) has fallen by 7.4 points, from 56.0% to 48.5%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 8,347 to 15,070 tests a year. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £82 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 49.7% and female candidates at 47.0%, a gap of 2.6 points across 8,564 and 6,506 tests. Automatic tests made up 31.3% of the workload and passed at 43.8%, 4.7 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 44.6% in October 2025 to 51.3% in April 2025, a 6.7-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in West Midlands runs more than five points ahead of Warwick (Wedgenock House) 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.