Hydebank: 42.5%
The lowest rolling four-quarter private-car pass rate reported in the latest completed 2025/26 DVA quarterly publication was 42.5% at Hydebank.
Pass rates vary significantly between centres, but that does not make one centre inherently “easy” or another inherently “hard”. DVA itself says candidate ability, learning experience and local driving conditions all affect the figures.
The lowest rolling four-quarter private-car pass rate reported in the latest completed 2025/26 DVA quarterly publication was 42.5% at Hydebank.
The highest rolling four-quarter private-car pass rate in the same official publication was 64.6% at Craigavon.
Across all practical test centres, the rolling four-quarter private-car pass rate was 52.3% to the end of March 2026.
For January to March 2026 alone, the private-car practical pass rate was 51.2%, down from 53.5% in the same quarter a year earlier.
A pass-rate table is descriptive, not a prediction of your result. Different candidates, instructors, experience levels and local road conditions feed into each centre's numbers. A centre you know well and can reach reliably may be more sensible than travelling across Northern Ireland chasing a historic percentage.
The annual private-car theory-test pass rate was 43.2% in 2025/26. That is another reason to use repeated timed mocks rather than assuming the multiple-choice test is automatic.