Folkestone driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Palting House, Trinity Road, Folkestone, CT20 2TS
Folkestone had a car driving test pass rate of 42.4% from April 2025 to March 2026 (7,818 tests), 7.7 points below the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 5 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 19.3 km, mostly on A roads (32%) and country lanes (31%).
What the practice routes cover
- A roads32%
- Country lanes31%
- Town and residential roads26%
- B roads8%
- Other roads2%
- Dual carriageways2%
On a typical route you'll go through 5 roundabouts and 6 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- A259 Shorncliffe Road / A259 · Roundabout3 of 5 routes
- Cheriton Interchange · Large roundabout3 of 5 routes
- A259 Cheriton Road / A259 Radnor Park Road · Large roundabout2 of 5 routes
- A259 Churchill Avenue · Large roundabout2 of 5 routes
- A259 Churchill Avenue / A260 Canterbury Road · Large roundabout2 of 5 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A20 Ashford Road3 of 5 routes
- A260 Canterbury Road3 of 5 routes
- Elvington Lane3 of 5 routes
- Gibraltar Lane3 of 5 routes
- A259 Churchill Avenue2 of 5 routes
- A259 Sandgate Esplanade2 of 5 routes
- A259 Sandgate Hill2 of 5 routes
- Crete Road West2 of 5 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 7,818 car tests were taken at Folkestone and 3,313 passed: a pass rate of 42.4%.
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 5 Folkestone 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.