Montrose driving test centre
Driving Test Centre Montrose Montrose Fire Station 10 Garrison Road, DD10 8EE
Drive the 5 routes around Montrose before test day →
Key facts
- Montrose's pass rate was 70% in 2025/26 from 621 tests, 20 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 8 of 67 centres in Scotland (Scotland average 49.3%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 20.7 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has fallen by 8.2 points, from 78.2% to 70%.
- Male candidates passed at 67.8% and female candidates at 71.9%, a gap of 4.1 points.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 20.2 weeks since booking (longer than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 21.2 weeks ahead.
The test centre in Montrose is part of the fire station on Garrison Road, which is the first thing to get straight, because candidates looking for a shop-front unit drive past it. What follows is one of the slowest test areas in the country: close to eight in ten of the roads tagged around the centre are 20 mph, and almost all the rest are 30s. There is very little fast driving on a Montrose route. What there is instead is town work, seven mini-roundabouts, tight streets between the basin and the sea, and a great many turns. Montrose has one of the ten highest pass rates in Britain, though it has come down from where it was five years ago.
Drive the Montrose test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 56 km in all, with 17 roundabouts and 116 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Montrose; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Montrose 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 · 116 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 Rossie Island Road9.6 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 17 right turns, 13 left turns and a stretch of Marine Avenue.9.6 km · 33 turns · 3 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Basin View12.5 km loop with 6 roundabouts, 8 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Beacon Terrace.12.5 km · 19 turns · 6 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Wharf Street12.6 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Usan Road.12.6 km · 24 turns · 3 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Usan Road10.7 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Rossie Island Road.10.7 km · 20 turns · 2 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Beacon Terrace11.0 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Burnside Place.11.0 km · 20 turns · 3 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Montrose sits between a tidal basin and the North Sea, and the road layout follows that. Routes work along Ferry Road, Wharf Street, Lower Hall Street and Provost Reid's Road on the harbour side, then out along Marine Avenue and Craig Road towards the front. It is a lot of turning in a small area: one loop on this page has seventeen right turns in under ten kilometres.
The 20 mph limit covers most of it. With so little 30 or 40 left, the risk is the opposite of the usual one. Not creeping over a limit, but sitting at 20 where the road opens up and is signed higher, which reads as undue hesitation.
Three conventional roundabouts carry the through traffic: Ferryden, Basin View and Inch Terrace. Seven mini-roundabouts sit inside the town. Rossie Island Road takes the A92 south over the water and the A935 runs west along the basin, and those are where you meet lorries and holiday traffic at a real speed for the first time on a route.
Further out, Usan Road is the rural edge, narrow and unmarked in places, the sort of road where meeting an oncoming vehicle is a decision rather than a formality. Burnside Place, Craig Crescent and the streets off Basin View are quieter, and are where manoeuvres are usually set.
Waiting time for a test at Montrose
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 | 20.2 | 21.2 | 9 | 16.1% |
| Jul 2026 | 20.2 | 12.5 | 13 | 41.2% |
| Jun 2026 | 15.5 | 24 | 16 | 14.3% |
| May 2026 | 19 | 24 | 0 | 25.7% |
| Apr 2026 | 22.2 | 24 | 3 | 62.5% |
| Mar 2026 | 22.9 | 23.4 | 5 | 56.9% |
Pass rate at Montrose, 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 | 621 | 70.0% | 67.8% | 71.9% |
| 2024/25 | 633 | 66.7% | 66.9% | 66.5% |
| 2023/24 | 642 | 67.6% | 68.4% | 66.8% |
| 2022/23 | 332 | 72.0% | 69.1% | 74.9% |
| 2021/22 | 602 | 78.2% | 77.5% | 79.0% |
| 2019/20 | 486 | 68.7% | 68.5% | 68.9% |
| 2018/19 | 610 | 68.0% | 70.8% | 65.9% |
| 2017/18 | 623 | 67.4% | 73.0% | 62.9% |
Scotland average 49.3% · GB 50%
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Test day at Montrose
The address is 10 Garrison Road, and the centre shares its site with Montrose fire station. Give yourself time to find it and to park somewhere sensible. This is a working fire station, and the last place to be is in the way of an appliance coming out.
One published detail matters before you book. This centre cannot be accessed if you use a wheelchair. If that affects you, raise it with DVSA at the booking stage rather than on the day, and ask what they can offer at Arbroath or Forfar instead.
Car tests only are run here. No motorcycle or lorry tests, and no instructor tests are listed. Booking, moving and cancelling are done on GOV.UK.
Montrose station is about half a mile from the centre, an easy walk if you are coming up or down the coast by train. Waiting times here are long, close to five months at the median with the first genuinely open week further out again, so treat the appointment as difficult to replace. Nothing is published about parking or facilities at the centre itself.
What DVSA publishes about Montrose
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
- DVSA states you cannot access this centre in a wheelchair. Ring DVSA before booking to arrange an alternative.
Learner reports from Montrose
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 Montrose.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Driving Test Centre Montrose Montrose Fire Station 10 Garrison RoadMontrose DD10 8EE
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Montrose
- Is Montrose an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 70% 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 Montrose?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Montrose was 20.2 weeks, and you had to look about 21.2 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 Montrose driving test centre?
- Montrose test centre is at Driving Test Centre Montrose Montrose Fire Station 10 Garrison Road, DD10 8EE. 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 Montrose do a year?
- 621 car tests were conducted at Montrose in 2025/26, of which 435 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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