Driving Test Pass Rates in Glasgow

Glasgow is a Scottish city served by one of the larger metropolitan concentrations of 8 DVSA practical driving test centres. Together, these centres have processed 391.9K tests on record, every result tracked here is sourced from the DVSA's quarterly statistical release and aggregated to give a like-for-like view of how each centre performs.

As a whole, Glasgow runs noticeably behind the UK average. The volume-weighted city car pass rate of 41.3% trails the UK figure by 7.4 percentage points, a pattern typical of busy urban centres where complex routes, traffic and tight manoeuvring make the practical test harder.

Within the city the spread between the easiest and hardest centre is 32.6 percentage points: Glasgow (Shieldhall) leads at 70.3% (2024-25), while Glasgow (Shieldhall) sits at 37.7%. That gap matters when you book, the same candidate can have a meaningfully different experience depending on which routes they drive on test day. Most learners pick the centre closest to where they take their lessons, but it's worth a few mock runs at your shortlisted centre's actual routes before the real thing.