Huntly driving test centre
Linden community Centre, Castle Street, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, AB54 4SH
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Key facts
- Huntly's pass rate was 63.7% in 2025/26 from 245 tests, 13.7 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 20 of 67 centres in Scotland (Scotland average 49.3%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 14.4 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 2.4 points, from 61.3% to 63.7%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 13.3 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 15.6 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 2.3 weeks.
Huntly is one of the smallest centres in the country, at around 245 car tests a year, and it has no traffic lights at all. Not one set stands within a mile and a half of the centre, so every junction on every route is a give way, a stop line or a roundabout read on your own judgement. The pass rate is high, 63.7 per cent, and the wait is shorter than most of Scotland. Two things to know before you book. This is a remote centre, listed at the fire station on Depot Road, and since August 2025 it has been running from a temporary site elsewhere in the town. Take the address from your confirmation.
Drive the Huntly test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 56 km in all, with 1 roundabouts and 83 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Huntly; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Huntly from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 56 km · 83 marked turns
- Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
- Street View tour of each route
- Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
- The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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- Route 1 · via Marquis Drive11.9 km loop with 12 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Deveron Road.11.9 km · 20 turns
- Route 2 · via Aberdeen Road11.1 km loop with 1 roundabout, 5 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Bogie Street.11.1 km · 16 turns · 1 roundabout
- Route 3 · via Marquis Drive12.1 km loop with 11 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Deveron Road.12.1 km · 19 turns
- Route 4 · via Castle Street9.0 km loop with 3 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Bogie Street.9.0 km · 9 turns
- Route 5 · via Marquis Drive11.4 km loop with 10 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Burnside Road.11.4 km · 19 turns
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Two roads name themselves over and over. Deveron Road carries the named stretch on two of the five practice loops on this page, Bogie Street on two more and Burnside Road on the fifth. That is how small the network is: 55.6 kilometres of practice, cut into loops of nine to twelve kilometres, over the same handful of streets.
The speed split is unusually clean. Fifty-six per cent of the roads around the centre are 30 mph and the other forty-four are 60, with almost nothing in between. So the test is town driving and then open single-carriageway road, swapped between without much warning — Castle Street, Duke Street, The Square, East Park Street, Park Street North and Farquhar Road for the first, the A920 and the A97 for the second. The national speed limit sign on the way out of town is where marks go, and as often for sitting well under the limit as for going over it.
Turning is the other thing the loops are built on. One asks for twelve right turns in 11.9 kilometres and another eleven in 12.1; the shortest, at nine kilometres, asks for only three. Just one of the five carries a roundabout anywhere on it. With no traffic lights in the town, nothing sequences any of that for you — you read the gap and go, at every junction, all the way round.
Riverside Drive, Marquis Drive, New Road and Bridge of Gibston fill in the quieter half, where the manoeuvres tend to go. There are no level crossings, and two schools sit inside the area.
Pass rate at Huntly, 2007/08 to 2025/26
Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.
Month by month, 2025/26
By year and gender
| Year | Tests | Pass rate | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 245 | 63.7% | 63.5% | 63.9% |
| 2024/25 | 232 | 62.5% | 64.3% | 60.7% |
| 2023/24 | 281 | 66.9% | 62.6% | 70.3% |
| 2022/23 | 249 | 56.2% | 56.5% | 56.0% |
| 2021/22 | 287 | 61.3% | 61.4% | 61.3% |
| 2020/21 | 21 | 66.7% | 70.0% | 63.6% |
| 2019/20 | 229 | 57.2% | 57.5% | 56.9% |
| 2018/19 | 299 | 60.2% | 61.2% | 59.4% |
Scotland average 49.3% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Huntly
Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.
| Month | Median wait | Weeks to free slots | Slots offered | Still free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 13.3 | 24 | 8 | 3.8% |
| Jul 2026 | 13.3 | 24 | 13 | 3.2% |
| Jun 2026 | 14.2 | 21.8 | 24 | 18.4% |
| May 2026 | 16.9 | 20.5 | 15 | 5% |
| Apr 2026 | 18.1 | 24 | 23 | 46.2% |
| Mar 2026 | 15.1 | 24 | 18 | 32.5% |
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Test day at Huntly
The permanent address is Huntly Fire Station on Depot Road, but that is not where car tests have been taken since 8 August 2025. DVSA moved the centre to a temporary site at the Linden Community Centre on Castle Street, AB54 4SH, until further notice, so an older listing will send you to the wrong end of town. Take the address from your booking confirmation, and ring DVSA if there is any doubt.
Only car tests are conducted here. DVSA states that it will make arrangements at this centre for candidates with a disability, which means telling them when you book rather than arriving and hoping.
Huntly station is a little over a kilometre away, though most candidates come with an instructor. Parking at a temporary site is not something DVSA publishes; treat the spaces at the community centre as belonging to the building's own users and leave the car on a nearby street.
The examiner will check your licence, take the insurance declaration, and do the eyesight check outside before you get in the car. Booking and cancelling is done on GOV.UK only.
What DVSA publishes about Huntly
Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.
- Tests conducted here
- car
- Wheelchair access
- Not published. DVSA says it will make arrangements for candidates with a disability, which is not the same as step-free access. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
- On the day
- Huntly remote centre is moving to a temporary site from 8th August 2025 until further notice. The BCP address is – Linden community Centre, Castle Street, Huntly, AB54 4SH.
Learner reports from Huntly
No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.
What examiners mark most often
DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Huntly.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Linden community Centre, Castle Street, HuntlyAberdeenshire AB54 4SH
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Huntly
- Is Huntly an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 63.7% of car tests were passed there in 2025/26, against 50.0% nationally. Pass rates reflect the local roads and who takes tests there as much as the examiners, so treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
- How long is the wait for a driving test at Huntly?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Huntly was 13.3 weeks, and you had to look about 24 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
- Where is Huntly driving test centre?
- Huntly test centre is at Linden community Centre, Castle Street, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, AB54 4SH. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
- How many driving tests does Huntly do a year?
- 245 car tests were conducted at Huntly in 2025/26, of which 156 were passed.
Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.
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