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Lochgilphead driving test centre

Scotland

Lochgilphead at a glance

Pass rate
56.4%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
18.8 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
140
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
0%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Lochgilphead compares

Lochgilphead passes 56.4% of car tests, which is 6.3 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 18.8 weeks, 6.7 weeks longer than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 140 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 62.5% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

Lochgilphead conducts fewer than 500 tests a year, so its pass rate moves sharply on a small number of results. It is excluded from the site's rankings for that reason, though the figures above are exactly as DVSA published them.

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Trends at Lochgilphead

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 62.5%

30%56%82%GB averageJan 24Jun 24Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Dec 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Lochgilphead driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
62.5%
50%
73.3%
50%
62.5%
57.7%
50%
55.6%
45.5%
55.6%
44.4%
77.8%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 18.8w

12w17w22wGB averageJul 24Dec 24Apr 25Aug 25Jan 26May 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Lochgilphead, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
18.8 weeks
17.6 weeks
20.6 weeks
20.6 weeks
19.5 weeks
21.7 weeks
12.1 weeks
12.4 weeks
15.2 weeks
20.1 weeks
17 weeks
15.1 weeks

Tests conducted each month

Mar 2024: 10

101417Feb 24Mar 24
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Lochgilphead, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
10
17
12
18
9
14
11
11
29
13
15
11

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Lochgilphead driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 140 79 56.4%
2024-25 144 90 62.5%
2023-24 148 94 63.5%
2022-23 110 80 72.7%
2021-22 123 99 80.5%
2020-21 27 20 74.1%
2019-20 125 88 70.4%
2018-19 149 115 77.2%
2017-18 166 97 58.4%
2014-15 123 82 66.7%

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 Lochgilphead 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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