Greenock Driving Test Centre
Greenock in Greenock currently passes 42.4% of tests, 6.3 points below 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
Greenock sits in the bottom quarter of car pass rates nationally (Bottom 10%, rank #291 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Rothesay, about 13.8 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 17.2K passed, 20.3K failed, 37.5K total
How Greenock compares
Greenock sits 6.3 points under the national average, ranked 291 of 323 in its category. Routes here are likely more demanding than at rural centres; extra time on the local roads pays back directly.
Where Greenock ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Stability is the story at Greenock: 43.2% in 2017-18, 42.4% now, and every year in between inside a 2.7-point band.
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Greenock
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Greenock in May 2026 had waited 6 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 Greenock
- 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 PA16 8DD, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Greenock sits in Greenock, Inverclyde, just inside the PA15 1LS 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 Greenock tend to know already. Sample size: 37.5K tests over 2017-18-2024-25. Enough that comparisons hold up; small enough that a quiet month or a route being temporarily diverted can show in the data.
42.4% at Greenock, against a UK car average of 48.7%. That puts the centre 6.3 points below the national figure and ranks it #291 of 323 car centres in the DVSA's network. Across 941 first attempts, the pass rate at Greenock is 40.9%, against 49% nationally. Booking your first test here is doable, but it's worth a few lessons around the centre before the date.
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 Greenock
- A lower pass rate at Greenock usually means specific local junctions or road types that catch out candidates trained elsewhere. Book local-area familiarisation lessons with an instructor who works this centre, not one who covers a different patch.
- Ask any instructor working Greenock 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.
- 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 Greenock
Turn up at Greenock 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 PA15 1LS). At moderate demand and roughly 8 to 12 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 Dunoon is fully booked, Greenock is the next closest centre, roughly 7 miles away.
The test runs for around 40 minutes and follows the same DVSA format used at every centre. The examiner checks your eyesight at 20 metres, asks you a tell-me safety question, then sits in for the drive, with one show-me question while you are driving. About 20 minutes of it is independent driving, either following a sat nav the examiner sets up or following road signs to a named place. You will do one of four set manoeuvres, and roughly one in seven candidates is asked to perform 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 will know the result before you leave Greenock. The examiner explains the faults marked on your DL25 feedback form and, if you have passed, takes the provisional licence so a full one can be posted out. The pass standard is fixed nationally, 15 driving faults maximum and zero serious or dangerous faults, and 42.4% of candidates here meet it 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.