Isle of Mull Driving Test Centre
Isle of Mull in Mull currently passes 66.7% of tests, 18 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
Isle of Mull sits in the top 10% of UK car pass rates nationally (Top 6%, rank #18 of 323). The strongest car alternative nearby is Mallaig, about 37.8 miles away.
Pass vs fail at a glance
All-time 118 passed, 59 failed, 177 total
How Isle of Mull compares
Isle of Mull clears the UK average by 18 points and sits ranked 18 of 323 in its category. That margin says more about its route mix than about marking, the DVSA standard is identical everywhere.
Where Isle of Mull ranks among 323 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Pass rate by demographic
Waiting time at Isle of Mull
The headline figure for reaching 10% availability is 24 weeks, but the typical (median) learner who took their test at Isle of Mull in May 2026 had waited 20.5 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 Isle of Mull
- 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 PA77 6UH, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
Isle of Mull is one of the DVSA's car test sites in Scotland, located in Mull, Argyll and Bute. The choice of routes reflects the local mix of road types rather than any standard national template. Small sample warning: 177 tests across 2016-17-2024-25. The headline rate on this page is the multi-year aggregate, which is the only version of the number worth trusting at this volume.
Isle of Mull passes higher than most. At 66.7% versus a UK average of 48.7%, it ranks #18 of 323 car centres, the top ten percent of the network. The DVSA's first-attempt figure for Isle of Mull sits at 68.5%, 19.5 points clear of the 49% UK average. The gap is wide enough to matter when you're deciding which local centre to book.
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 Isle of Mull
- Above-average pass rate at Isle of Mull 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.
- 68.5% of first-timers pass at Isle of Mull, 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.
- Isle of Mull is a low-volume centre (177 tests on record). Period-to-period swings can look dramatic without much underlying change, read the multi-year aggregate rather than any single quarter's figure.
- If you can, take at least one lesson with an instructor who specifically works the Isle of Mull area. Local instructors know which nearby junctions are demanding and will drill them.
- If you missed the earlier slots at Isle of Mull, 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 Isle of Mull
Turn up at Isle of Mull 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. 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 Oban is fully booked, Isle of Mull is the next closest centre, roughly 15 miles away.
The practical lasts about 40 minutes and uses the standard DVSA format nationwide. After an eyesight check at 20 metres and one show-me and one tell-me question, the examiner sits in for the drive. Roughly 20 minutes of that is independent driving, either following a sat nav set by the examiner or following road signs, and you will complete one of four set manoeuvres; about one in seven tests includes an emergency stop, a frequency the DVSA reduced in late 2025. 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.
The result is given immediately when you get back. Whatever the outcome, the examiner reads through the marked faults and prints your DL25 feedback form; pass and they take the provisional licence to trigger your full one by post. The threshold is the national one, 15 driving faults at most and zero serious or dangerous, which 66.7% of Isle of Mull's candidates reach right now.
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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.