Birmingham (Kings Heath) driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
955 Alcester Road South, B14 5JA
Birmingham (Kings Heath) had a car driving test pass rate of 46.8% from April 2025 to March 2026 (9,072 tests), 3.3 points below the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 10 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 12.4 km and takes around 28 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (56%) and country lanes (20%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads56%
- Country lanes20%
- A roads16%
- Dual carriageways5%
- B roads3%
- Other roads1%
On a typical route you'll go through 10 roundabouts and 2 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- The Maypole · Large roundabout8 of 10 routes
- Highters Heath Lane / School Road · Large roundabout4 of 10 routes
- School Road / Yardley Wood Road · Large roundabout4 of 10 routes
- Maypole Lane / Highters Heath Lane · Mini-roundabout3 of 10 routes
- A4040 Wheelers Lane / Wheelers Lane · Roundabout2 of 10 routes
- Alcester Road South · Roundabout2 of 10 routes
- Haslucks Green Road / Colebrook Road · Roundabout2 of 10 routes
- Lifford Lane · Roundabout2 of 10 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A435 Alcester Road South6 of 10 routes
- Highters Heath Lane4 of 10 routes
- Maypole Lane4 of 10 routes
- Bells Lane3 of 10 routes
- Broad Lane3 of 10 routes
- High Street3 of 10 routes
- Yardley Wood Road3 of 10 routes
- A4040 Fordhouse Lane2 of 10 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 9,072 car tests were taken at Birmingham (Kings Heath) and 4,242 passed: a pass rate of 46.8%.
Source: DVSA, “Practical car pass rates by gender, month and DTC” (DRT122A). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Practise these routes
Open the 10 Birmingham (Kings Heath) routes in the app with turn-by-turn navigation, then record your drive and get an AI report on how it went.
These are practice routes built by Drive Round App around the test centre, not official test routes: DVSA doesn't publish its routes, and examiners can use any road in the area. Practise a mix of roads and junctions, not one route. Routes last updated 24 October 2026.