Glasgow (Baillieston) test centre: 47.4% pass rate, £394 to get through it.

10,428 candidates took the car practical test at Glasgow (Baillieston) during 2025/26 and 4,947 of them passed, a pass rate of 47.4%. That is a high-volume centre, ranked 230th of 308 on pass rate, and 56th of 67 inside Scotland.

That lands within 2.6 percentage points of the 50.03% national figure and 1.9 points below the 49.3% Scotland average, which makes Glasgow (Baillieston) an ordinary centre on the DVSA table and puts the cost question back on preparation rather than location.

Turn 47.4% into money. One divided by the pass rate gives 2.11 expected attempts before a first pass, so the average candidate at Glasgow (Baillieston) pays the £62 weekday DVSA fee about 2.11 times, or £131. Add 1.11 expected retakes at 7 hours of extra tuition each, charged at the Scotland rate of £34 an hour, and the extra lessons come to £264. The test cycle at Glasgow (Baillieston) is therefore about £394. Testing here therefore costs about £32 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 (Baillieston). DVSA recorded a median wait of 18.3 weeks between booking and taking a test in July 2026, 6.4 weeks longer than the 11.9-week median across all centres. Multiply that by the 1.11 expected retakes and a candidate here is looking at roughly 20.3 extra weeks of waiting, close to 5 months of insurance, lesson top-ups and a licence still not in the post. In the same month DVSA offered 3,109 standard slots inside the booking window here and 3.4% of them were still free to book.

First attempts track the headline closely: 2,430 passes from 5,062 first tests at Glasgow (Baillieston), 48.0% against 47.4% for all attempts. 87 of those first tests were passed with no driving faults recorded at all, 1.72% of them.

The pass rate at Glasgow (Baillieston) has held flat since 2021/22, moving from 47.0% to 47.4%. Test volume has grown over the same span, from 5,974 to 10,428 tests a year. A stable rate is the useful kind for planning, because it means this year's figure is a fair guide to next year's odds.

Male candidates passed at 48.1% and female candidates at 46.6%, a gap of 1.5 points across 6,052 and 4,376 tests. Automatic tests made up 27.7% of the workload and passed at 41.0%, 6.5 points below the manual-inclusive rate, worth knowing before paying the automatic lesson premium. Month to month the rate ran from 40.8% in August 2025 to 51.3% in March 2026, a 10.5-point swing that shows how little a single month proves.

None of the similarly sized centres in Scotland runs more than five points ahead of Glasgow (Baillieston) on pass rate, so travelling elsewhere is unlikely to pay for itself once you add an unfamiliar route, the travel and the settling-in lessons. The cheaper lever here is preparation on the roads your instructor already knows.