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[johnnydog]

You can only present a car one calender month prior to the expiry date to get a 13 month test. One calender month and a day prior to the expiry date and you only get 12 months from the test date effectively losing a month. It cannot be any earlier than one calender month or it's just back to a standard 12 months.
If it fails its MOT in September, my understanding is that the previous MOT is then void and the car is without a test until repaired and is retested.
If it fails on excessive corrosion, would you be happy driving it for another 3 months? I wouldn't. It would make a bit of a mockery of the MOT system if you were permitted to continue using a car that had failed a midterm MOT. And I believe you have 10 working days to submit it for a free retest on the failed repairs if taken away from the test centre ( I think) after which time it has to be retested at the relevant test price.
All the MOT info ought to be on the GOV.UK site, and the earliest dates for testing on your current certificate.

And on line one that technically should read UPTO one calender month prior.....
Another detention for me now then....

[dave the builder]

Don't beat yourself up about it ,
 half the MOT testers don't know or misinterpret everything written in the manual anyway 

[Doctor Gollum]

Don't beat yourself up about it ,
 half the MOT testers don't know or misinterpret everything written in the manual anyway 

There's a manual 

[dave the builder]

Don't beat yourself up about it ,
 half the MOT testers don't know or misinterpret everything written in the manual anyway 

There's a manual 

Being a BUILDER ,Its one of the very few things i actually read and keep on top of the updates 

[Doctor Gollum]

Clearly