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Life in the UK Test pass rate

The newest official figures we could find come from a Home Office freedom of information release in November 2013. They give a Life in the UK Test pass rate for each month from October 2005 to October 2013, from a low of 65.78% in December 2006 to a high of 88.14% in February 2013. We found no newer pass rates on GOV.UK in October 2026.

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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

What was the Life in the UK Test pass rate in 2013?

These are the Home Office’s figures, copied from the national summary in its release (FOI 29445). The release doesn’t explain the fall between March and April 2013.

MonthTests takenPassedPass rate
January 201311,1009,58086.31%
February 201315,73713,87188.14%
March 201323,01119,73485.76%
April 20137,4265,20770.12%
May 20138,6916,47674.51%
June 201310,2497,75175.63%
July 201310,4437,79474.63%
August 201312,2679,20875.06%
September 201315,32411,26273.49%
October 201316,79411,73569.88%

Earlier figures

The same table starts in October 2005, the first month it covers, with 316 tests and an 81.33% pass rate. It then gives every month to October 2013, with tests taken, passed, failed and the pass rate. The full table is in the PDF linked below.

Home Office: FOI 29445 national summary (PDF) ↗

Is the test hard?

No official source rates how hard it is, and GOV.UK’s test pages don’t publish a pass rate. What’s fixed is the bar, 75%, and GOV.UK lets you rebook as many times as you need.

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Sources: Home Office, GOV.UK and 1 more. Checked October 2026.

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