Edinburgh Driving Test Centre

Edinburgh (Musselburgh) Driving Test Centre

📍 Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 0.7pts above

The national average is combined from all the test centres where Veygo has data from gov.uk in 2025/2026.

About Edinburgh (Musselburgh) driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Edinburgh (Musselburgh) driving test centre in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Edinburgh (Musselburgh) across demographics, vehicle types, number of attempts, and age. You can find the map location for the test centre and directions here.

Latest DVSA data, 2025/2026

49.4%

Overall pass rate i

49.9%

First-attempt pass rate i

First-time faultless passes i

6,850

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Edinburgh (Musselburgh)

Pass rates for automatic and manual car tests, side by side across five years.

For Edinburgh (Musselburgh) in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 51.3% compared with 44.6% for automatic tests, a difference of 6.7 percentage points.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Edinburgh (Musselburgh)

How first-time candidates perform, including the rate of faultless passes over time.

First-time candidates at Edinburgh (Musselburgh) passed at 49.9% in 2025/2026, which is 0.5 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 49.4%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Edinburgh (Musselburgh)

How pass rates vary by candidate age, from 17 to 25, in the latest year of data.

At Edinburgh (Musselburgh) in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 66.5%. Pass rates generally shift with age, and this chart shows how each age from 17 to 25 performed.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

Performance over time

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Pass rate by gender for Edinburgh (Musselburgh)

How male and female pass rates at this centre have changed over the last five years.

In Edinburgh (Musselburgh) for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 48.9%, which is 1.2 percentage points lower than the female pass rate of 50.1%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

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