Cumnock driving test centre

ScotlandAbout 22 weeks

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Driving Test Centre Cumnock

The Town Hall, 2 Hall Terrace

Cumnock

KA18 1DX

67.4%

2025/26 pass rate · all attempts

17.3 percentage points above average

Out of every 100 car tests at Cumnock last year, about 67 passed (17.3 points above the 50.0% UK average).

DVSA DRT122A · OGL v3
First-time pass

69.5%

18.9 points above the national first-attempt average.

Reported wait

22 weeks

Reported in July 2026 (DRT122F); this centre median is not a booking promise.

This centre in numbers

10

760 published tests in April 2025 - March 2026 · 67.4% overall pass rate

Cumnock's pass rate has changed

Cumnock's pass rate was 6.2 points higher than the previous financial year. The pass rate was 67.4% from 760 tests in April 2025 - March 2026.

The reported wait was 22 weeks in July 2026.

A good place to sit it

67.4% of tests here end in a pass, about 10 people a week.

Fault snapshot

Control - steering

This was the most commonly recorded fault here in April 2025 - March 2026. It is a useful place to start a conversation, not a prediction for your test.

Recorded
372
marks
Rate
48.9
marks per 100 tests

Before the day, take a calm look at the parts of moving off that feel least settled: observations, control and choosing a safe gap. Your instructor can help you practise the bits that need another go.

Explore the full fault breakdown

National pass rates also move with the calendar - see UK seasonality.

Across the region

Scotland centres by current pass rate.

  • Inveraray90% · 20 tests
  • Isle of Skye (Portree)85.7% · 21 tests
  • Thurso84.6% · 26 tests
  • Benbecula Island82.4% · 17 tests
  • Duns81% · 21 tests
  • Golspie80% · 20 tests
  • Stranraer77.5% · 80 tests
  • Cumnock67.4%

Centres with under 100 tests are thin samples.

Pass rate · last 12 months

Overall, male and female monthly rates for this centre. Gaps bridge months with no tests.

Men and women breakdown

Men and women here

Men have the higher published pass rate here in April 2025 - March 2026; no wider explanation is inferred from these figures. On 760 tests the difference is small enough to move year to year.

Axis starts at 64%.

How faults are marked

Every mark is serious, dangerous, or a driving (minor) fault. Shown per 100 tests.

  • Serious · 55.4
  • Dangerous · 2.2
  • Driving · 402.2

Faults that end tests

Top categories by total marks in April 2025 - March 2026. Colour shows severity mix within each bar.

  • Control - steering372
  • Move off - safely274
  • Move off - control263
  • Use of speed180
  • Control - gears173
  • Maintain progress - undue hesitation165
  • Maintain progress - speed145
  • Reverse park - Control136
Serious Dangerous Driving

Named categories

Counts per 100 tests.

Top 10 fault categories
FaultSerious / 100Dangerous / 100Driving / 100All / 100
Control - steering4.30.444.248.9
Move off - safely3.40.132.536.1
Move off - control3.00.031.634.6
Use of speed5.00.018.723.7
Control - gears1.20.021.622.8
Maintain progress - undue hesitation1.20.020.521.7
Maintain progress - speed0.70.018.419.1
Reverse park - Control4.50.113.317.9
Positioning - normal driving2.10.015.117.2
Junctions - observation5.00.710.916.6
About these figures
Fault categories are self-reported by DVSA examiners; a single test can record more than one fault, so these describe examiner records, not route difficulty.

More about this centre

Waiting time, automatic and first-attempt detail, and DVSA-initiated cancellations - only the slices this centre publishes.

Waiting time

Median wait and slot availability as of July 2026.

Slots still bookable

16.3%

As of July 2026

Weeks to 10%+ availability

10 weeks

DRT122F · July 2026

Overtime slots added

7

Automatic transmission

166 automatic tests in April 2025 - March 2026.

Pass rate

56.0%

166 automatic tests

Male

53.3%

60 tests

Female

57.5%

106 tests

First-time passes

First attempts in April 2025 - March 2026. Cleaner than the all-attempt rate when published.

Faultless passes

15

Zero-fault first-time passes

First vs overall

-2.1 pts

All-attempt rate vs first-attempt rate

DVSA cancellations

About 2.1% of tests attempted here. DVSA-initiated, not learner no-shows.

Tests cancelled

16

DRT122B · April 2025 - March 2026

  • Leave14
  • Acts of nature2

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