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Ayr driving test centre

Scotland

Ayr at a glance

Pass rate
57.5%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
10.6 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
2,189
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
5.1%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Ayr compares

Ayr passes 57.5% of car tests, which is 7.4 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 10.6 weeks, 1.5 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 2,189 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 56.2% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

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Trends at Ayr

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 56.2%

50%63%77%GB averageApr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Ayr driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
56.2%
53.4%
57.6%
77.9%
67.2%
60%
58.1%
59.4%
55.8%
54.5%
49%
52.2%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 10.6w

7w14w21wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Mar 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Ayr, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
10.6 weeks
8.9 weeks
9.1 weeks
7.6 weeks
6.3 weeks
8.3 weeks
15.4 weeks
13 weeks
21.1 weeks
15.9 weeks
11.4 weeks
10 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2026: 288

79206332Apr 24Aug 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Ayr, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
288
337
278
140
137
125
74
128
156
189
153
184

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Ayr driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 2,189 1,258 57.5%
2024-25 2,015 1,144 56.8%
2023-24 2,672 1,445 54.1%
2022-23 1,925 1,052 54.6%
2021-22 1,734 919 53%
2020-21 494 251 50.8%
2019-20 2,074 985 47.5%
2018-19 2,036 957 47%
2017-18 2,519 1,146 45.5%
2016-17 2,947 1,293 43.9%

Where it is

Nearby test centres

There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.

Everything on this page describes Ayr driving test centre. Figures come from the DVSA statistical data sets DRT122A and DRT122F, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Pass rates run to March 2026 and waiting times to June 2026. This page was last updated .

Practice makes perfect

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