Glasgow (Anniesland) test centre: 44.3% pass rate, £439 to get through it.

Over 2025/26 the examiners at Glasgow (Anniesland) conducted 6,170 car practical tests and issued 2,736 passes. The resulting 44.3% makes it a mid-sized centre sitting 269th of 308 on the national pass-rate table and 60th of 67 in Scotland.

That is 5.7 percentage points below the 50.03% national figure, and 5.0 points below the 49.3% average for Scotland. Low pass rates cluster where test routes carry heavy traffic, multi-lane junctions and frequent bus lanes. The examiners are not stricter; the roads give a candidate more chances to make a serious fault.

Turn 44.3% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 2.26 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Glasgow (Anniesland) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 2.26 times, or £140. Add 1.26 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the Scotland rate of £34 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £299. The test cycle at Glasgow (Anniesland) is therefore about £439. Testing here therefore costs about £77 more than the same candidate would spend at a centre sitting on the 50.03% national average, purely because of the extra attempt the pass rate implies.

The queue is the expensive part at Glasgow (Anniesland). DVSA recorded a median wait of 21.3 weeks between booking and taking a test in July 2026, 9.4 weeks longer than the 11.9-week median across all centres. Multiply that by the 1.26 expected retakes and a candidate here is looking at roughly 26.7 extra weeks of waiting, close to 6 months of insurance, lesson top-ups and a licence still not in the post. In the same month DVSA offered 2,790 standard slots inside the booking window here and 3.4% of them were still free to book.

First attempts track the headline closely: 1,427 passes from 3,222 first tests at Glasgow (Anniesland), 44.3% against 44.3% for all attempts. 29 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 0.90% of them.

Since 2021/22 the pass rate at Glasgow (Anniesland) has risen by 2.6 points, from 41.8% to 44.3%. Volume has been steady, 7,108 tests then against 6,170 now. On the cost model above, that shift alone is worth about £42 to the average candidate.

Male candidates passed at 45.5% and female candidates at 43.2%, a gap of 2.3 points across 3,015 and 3,155 tests. Automatic tests made up 34.4% of the workload and passed at 41.2%, 3.1 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 40.0% in May 2025 to 47.5% in June 2025, a 7.5-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

Among centres of a similar size in Scotland, Bishopbriggs runs 5.4 points higher at 49.8%. On the same arithmetic that is roughly £74 of expected difference. Before moving, price the switch: a new instructor or extra travel for route familiarity typically costs £60 to £120 plus two settling-in lessons, which eats most of a gap under about eight points.