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Gairloch driving test centre

Scotland

Gairloch at a glance

Pass rate
73.5%
April 2025 to March 2026
Average wait
3 weeks
June 2026
Tests a year
49
April 2025 to March 2026
Slots still free
0%
Of the 24-week booking window

How Gairloch compares

Gairloch passes 73.5% of car tests, which is 23.4 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 3 weeks, 9.1 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 49 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 80% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.

Gairloch 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 Gairloch

Pass rate

Mar 2026: 80.0%

35%67%99%GB averageApr 23Feb 24Jul 24Nov 24Mar 25Nov 25Mar 26
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Monthly car practical pass rate at Gairloch driving test centre, most recent 12 published months.
Month Pass rate
80%
80%
60%
60%
66.7%
77.8%
75%
60%
50%
100%
75%
100%

Waiting time

Jun 2026: 3.0w

2w14w27wGB averageJul 24Nov 24Mar 25Nov 25Mar 26Jun 26
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Average wait in weeks between booking and taking a car test at Gairloch, most recent 12 published months.
Month Average wait
3 weeks
10.6 weeks
6.8 weeks
15.9 weeks
13.4 weeks
17 weeks
9.7 weeks
27.1 weeks
9.1 weeks
11.9 weeks
7.9 weeks
6.6 weeks

Not enough published data to chart tests conducted each month.
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Car practical tests conducted each month at Gairloch, most recent 12 published months.
Month Tests conducted
8
8
9
7

Year by year

Car practical tests, passes and pass rate at Gairloch driving test centre by DVSA financial year (April to March).
Year Tests Passes Pass rate
2025-26 49 36 73.5%
2024-25 52 36 69.2%
2023-24 49 36 73.5%
2022-23 59 46 78%
2021-22 37 25 67.6%
2019-20 58 42 72.4%
2018-19 37 32 86.5%
2017-18 36 25 69.4%
2016-17 41 29 70.7%
2015-16 51 39 76.5%

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 Gairloch 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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