Forfar Driving Test Centre
Forfar in Forfar currently passes 70.8% of tests, 22.1 points above the UK average of 48.7%. The sections below cover the year-by-year trend, who passes most often, how long learners wait, and how it stacks up against neighbouring centres.
DVSA data last updated July 2026
Forfar sits in the top 10% of UK car pass rates nationally (Top 2%, rank #6 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Arbroath, about 13.1 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 6.0K passed, 3.7K failed, 9.7K total
How Forfar compares
Forfar clears the UK average by 22.1 points and sits ranked 6 of 323 in its category. That margin says more about its route mix than about marking, the DVSA standard is identical everywhere.
Where Forfar ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Forfar ends the series about where it started, yet the spread between 2022-23 (73.6%) and 2018-19 (65.2%) runs to 8.4 points; read a single year here with caution.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Forfar
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Forfar in May 2026 had waited 22 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
Accessibility & facilities
Parking, toilets, and disabled-access details vary by centre. Check the official DVSA find a driving test centre tool, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Forfar is one of the DVSA's car test sites in Scotland, located in Forfar, Angus. The choice of routes reflects the local mix of road types rather than any standard national template. Forfar sees moderate volume: 9.7K practical tests through 2017-18-2024-25. Year-on-year percentages here are meaningful, but watch the trend line rather than fixating on any single period.
Forfar passes higher than most. At 70.8% versus a UK average of 48.7%, it ranks #6 of 323 car centres, the top ten percent of the network. Across 903 first-attempt tests, Forfar passes 69.1% of candidates, against 49% nationally. The centre is a relatively forgiving venue for a first booking, by the DVSA's own data.
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 Forfar
- Above-average pass rate at Forfar doesn't mean above-average ease. The fundamentals examiners mark are the same nationally: junctions, mirrors, observation, signal timing. A 65%+ pass rate means more candidates clear those, not that the bar is lower.
- 69.1% of first-timers pass at Forfar, 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.
- Ask any instructor working Forfar about the centre's "usual fails", they'll have two or three specific junctions or manoeuvres in mind. Practise those until they're automatic before your date.
- If you missed the earlier slots at Forfar, cancellations appear on the official DVSA booking service throughout the day. Check at off-peak times (early morning, late evening) for the best chance of catching one.
Other test centres nearby
On the day at Forfar
Give yourself ten minutes in hand when you head to Forfar, and look up where to park beforehand, facilities differ from one DVSA site to the next. The DVSA centre finder shows the exact location. Modelled waits here sit around 6 to 10 weeks at low demand, which tends to mean less competition for a date that suits you. You must have your provisional photocard licence on you, plus a car with L plates and a working interior mirror for the examiner. If Dundee is fully booked, Forfar is the next closest centre, roughly 13 miles away.
Expect about 40 minutes once you set off, to the same national DVSA script. It opens with an eyesight check at 20 metres and one tell-me question, after which the examiner rides along for the drive and asks one show-me question on the move. Around 20 minutes of that is independent driving, guided either by a sat nav the examiner provides or by road signs to a named destination, with one of four set manoeuvres and a one-in-seven chance of 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.
Results come immediately on return to the centre. The examiner talks you through any faults marked, prints the DL25 feedback form, and (if you passed) takes your provisional licence so the full one can be issued by post. A pass needs no more than 15 driving faults and zero serious or dangerous faults, the standard 70.8% of candidates at Forfar meet under current DVSA 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.