Campbeltown Driving Test Centre
Campbeltown in Campbeltown records a 68.1% pass rate against a UK average of 48.7%, with a median wait of 14.3 weeks. This page covers the multi-year trend, the first-time and gender pass rates, and a like-for-like comparison with other centres.
DVSA data last updated July 2026
Campbeltown sits in the top 10% of UK car pass rates nationally (Top 3%, rank #11 of 323). No nearby car centre currently posts a higher pass rate.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 864 passed, 405 failed, 1.3K total
How Campbeltown compares
Campbeltown clears the UK average by 19.4 points and sits ranked 11 of 323 in its category. That margin says more about its route mix than about marking, the DVSA standard is identical everywhere.
Where Campbeltown ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
The longer arc at Campbeltown points down: 67.2% in 2017-18 against 62.6% now, a 4.6-point slide, though 2020-21 showed what the routes allow at 76.5%.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Campbeltown
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 18.5 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Campbeltown in May 2026 had waited 14.3 weeks from booking to test day.
Official DVSA data, May 2026. The median is the time between booking and taking the test; for live availability use the DVSA booking service.
Centre details
Address
Source: DVSA find a driving test centre (Open Government Licence v3.0), captured 2026-05-12.
Tests offered at Campbeltown
- car
Accessibility & facilities
Parking and toilet details aren't included in DVSA's published feed. For the current on-site facilities, check the DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode PA28 6BU, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Campbeltown sits in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, just inside the PA28 6AD postcode. It's a DVSA-run car test centre, and the routes from here work outward into the streets and arterial roads that learners from Campbeltown tend to know already. Volume here sits at 1.3K over 2017-18-2024-25. That's the territory where a noisy quarter can shift the rate by two or three percentage points, so read the trend chart in context rather than reacting to any single bar.
68.1% at Campbeltown, against a UK car average of 48.7%. That puts the centre 19.4 points clear of the national figure and ranks it #11 of 323 car centres in the DVSA's network. First-time pass rate: 66.5%. UK average: 49%. Campbeltown is 17.5 points to the good on first attempts, a meaningful gap, not a rounding artefact.
All figures shown are aggregated from the DVSA quarterly statistical release covering the most recent reporting periods available. Pass-rate calculations exclude tests cancelled by the candidate or examiner. Sample sizes and methodology are described in the source attribution at the foot of this page.
What learners should know about Campbeltown
- Campbeltown passes higher than the UK average, but the marking sheet is identical to every other DVSA centre. The bias is in the local road mix (less traffic, simpler junction geometry); the standard is national.
- 66.5% of first-timers pass at Campbeltown, so the centre is on the forgiving side. If your instructor is signing you off as test-ready, your own preparation matters far more than the venue.
- Practising the roads around the centre is the preparation that most reliably pays off. Most ADI instructors in Campbeltown will know the road types and junctions learners commonly meet near the centre.
- The only legitimate booking route is gov.uk. Anything calling itself a "test booking concierge" is reselling the same slots at a markup, the slots aren't theirs to control.
Other test centres nearby
On the day at Campbeltown
Turn up at Campbeltown ten minutes before your appointment, and check ahead where you can park, DVSA sites vary on that. You can preview the location on the DVSA centre finder (postcode PA28 6AD). At low demand and roughly 4 to 8 weeks' wait, getting a date that works for you is usually straightforward. The examiner will ask to see your provisional photocard licence before anything else, and your car must carry L plates and a working interior mirror. If Brodick (Isle of Arran) is fully booked, Campbeltown is the next closest centre, roughly 21 miles away.
Plan for a drive of roughly 40 minutes, identical in structure to every other DVSA centre. First comes the 20-metre eyesight check and a tell-me vehicle-safety question, then the examiner joins you for the road section, with one show-me question while you drive. About 20 minutes is independent driving by sat nav or by following signs to a named target, you tackle one of four set manoeuvres, and around one in seven candidates get an emergency stop. The drive covers the local mix of road types within roughly a twenty-minute radius of the centre. Across DVSA marking nationally, the fault recorded most often on car tests is junctions - observation, worth drilling on the local routes before your date.
You find out there and then, back at Campbeltown. The examiner runs through the faults on the DL25 feedback form and, on a pass, keeps your provisional licence so a full licence follows in the post. Clearing the test means staying under 16 driving faults, that is 15 or fewer, with no serious or dangerous fault; 68.1% of candidates here manage it on the current marking.
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Data: DVSA quarterly statistical release, released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRates.uk aggregates DVSA centre-level totals across reporting periods.
Edited by Vikas. DVSA data period: 2024-25.