Exeter driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Thorverton Road, EX2 8FS
Exeter had a car driving test pass rate of 46.8% from April 2025 to March 2026 (8,679 tests), 3.3 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 16 km, mostly on town and residential roads (33%) and country lanes (32%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads33%
- Country lanes32%
- A roads22%
- B roads9%
- Dual carriageways3%
On a typical route you'll go through 8 roundabouts and 17 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Yeoford Way · Roundabout3 of 4 routes
- Yeoford Way / B3123 Bad Homburg Way · Roundabout3 of 4 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A3793 of 4 routes
- A377 Alphington Road2 of 4 routes
- Waybrook Lane2 of 4 routes
- Western Way2 of 4 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 8,679 car tests were taken at Exeter and 4,061 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 4 Exeter 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 2 November 2026.