Canterbury driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
25 New Dover Road, CT1 3AS
Canterbury had a car driving test pass rate of 45.8% from April 2025 to March 2026 (4,670 tests), 4.3 points below the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 4 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 18.3 km, mostly on country lanes (47%) and A roads (30%).
What the practice routes cover
- Country lanes47%
- A roads30%
- Town and residential roads12%
- B roads8%
- Dual carriageways2%
On a typical route you'll go through 3 roundabouts and 3 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Longport · Roundabout3 of 4 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A257 Littlebourne Road3 of 4 routes
- Bridge Road3 of 4 routes
- Station Road2 of 4 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 4,670 car tests were taken at Canterbury and 2,138 passed: a pass rate of 45.8%.
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 4 Canterbury 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 1 November 2026.