Sheffield (Parkway) Driving Test Centre

· South Yorkshire

48.8%
final pass rate 6,740 tests/year · 4 years of data · DVSA data: 2012-13

Key Statistics

48.8% Overall Pass Rate ▲ +0.4pp
52.7% Male Pass Rate
45.0% Female Pass Rate
28,266 Total Tests (4 years)

Historical Pass Rate Trend

Sheffield (Parkway) pass rate over 4 years

45% 47% 49% 51% 53% 55% 2009 2010 2011 2012 2009: 51.0% 2010: 50.3% 2011: 48.4% 2012: 48.8%

Monthly Breakdown (2012-13)

Month Tests Passes Pass Rate Male Rate Female Rate
Apr 549 263 47.9% 47.1% 48.7%
May 688 323 46.9% 48.9% 45.1%
Jun 595 300 50.4% 58.1% 42.8%
Jul 671 309 46.1% 47.9% 44.3%
Aug 537 267 49.7% 54.4% 44.9%
Sep 472 237 50.2% 54.3% 46.3%
Oct 641 329 51.3% 52.6% 50.0%
Nov 573 263 45.9% 52.2% 39.4%
Dec 453 233 51.4% 54.7% 48.3%
Jan 527 257 48.8% 54.0% 44.0%
Feb 521 262 50.3% 53.2% 47.6%
Mar 513 245 47.8% 57.3% 39.8%

Gender Comparison

Male candidates pass at a 7.7pp higher rate than female candidates at Sheffield (Parkway).

45% 48% 51% 54% 57% 60% 2009 2010 2011 2012 2009: 45.8% 2010: 47.0% 2011: 45.0% 2012: 45.0% 2009: 56.4% 2010: 53.7% 2011: 52.0% 2012: 52.7%
Male Female

Pass Rate by Age

How do different age groups perform at Sheffield (Parkway)? The chart below shows pass rates for candidates aged 17 to 25, who account for 416.914 of the tests conducted here.

17: 1346.0% 18: 1227.0% 19: 613.0% 20: 443.0% 21: 339.0% 22: 304.0% 23: 307.0% 24: 294.0% 25: 231.0% 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Age of candidate at test

17-year-olds have the highest pass rate at Sheffield (Parkway) with 1346.0% from 54.47284345047923 tests, while 25-year-olds have the lowest at 231.0%. This is unusual. Nationally, 17-year-olds often have lower pass rates due to less driving experience. The 1115.0 percentage point gap between the best and worst age groups is significant.

AgeTestsPass RateMale RateFemale Rate
1754.4731346.0%63.8%341.0%
1852.3271227.0%54.1%326.0%
1946.921613.0%54.0%160.0%
2049.301443.0%60.5%141.0%
2142.487339.0%55.5%82.0%
2247.09304.0%56.5%89.0%
2343.75307.0%56.5%70.0%
2443.066294.0%49.0%59.0%
2537.5231.0%50.5%45.0%

Automatic vs Manual

44.9%Automatic Pass Rate
48.8%Overall Pass Rate
234Auto Tests/Year

At Sheffield (Parkway), the automatic test pass rate is 44.9%, which is 3.9 percentage points lower than the overall pass rate of 48.8%. 234 automatic tests were conducted here in the latest year.

Male automatic candidates pass at 58.5% compared to 42.0% for females.

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