Banbury driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate

What the practice routes cover

• Town and residential roads32%
• A roads26%
• Country lanes20%
• Dual carriageways11%
• B roads11%
• Other roads1%

On a typical route you'll go through 8 roundabouts and 14 sets of traffic lights.

Roundabouts on several routes

• Ermont Way · Roundabout12 of 15 routes
• Middleton Road · Mini-roundabout12 of 15 routes
• Concord Roundabout · Large roundabout11 of 15 routes
• Ermont Way / Middleton Road · Roundabout11 of 15 routes
• A422 Hennef Way / Ermont Way · Large roundabout6 of 15 routes
• Banbury Cross · Roundabout6 of 15 routes
• A422 Ruscote Avenue · Roundabout4 of 15 routes
• Ermont Way / A422 Hennef Way · Large roundabout4 of 15 routes

Roads the routes use most

• Ermont Way12 of 15 routes
• Middleton Road12 of 15 routes
• A422 Hennef Way11 of 15 routes
• A361 Bloxham Road9 of 15 routes
• A4260 Upper Windsor Street8 of 15 routes
• B4035 Broughton Road5 of 15 routes
• Queensway5 of 15 routes
• A361 Southam Road4 of 15 routes

Pass rate

From April 2025 to March 2026, 9,069 car tests were taken at Banbury and 3,741 passed: a pass rate of 41.3%.

Source: DVSA, “Practical car pass rates by gender, month and DTC” (DRT122A). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.