Herne Bay driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Altria Business Park, Margate Road, Thanet Way, CT6 6GZ
Herne Bay had a car driving test pass rate of 55.9% from April 2025 to March 2026 (10,674 tests), 5.8 points above the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 4 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 14.7 km and takes around 22 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (52%) and country lanes (37%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads52%
- Country lanes37%
- A roads9%
- B roads2%
On a typical route you'll go through 7 roundabouts and 0 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Margate Road · Roundabout4 of 4 routes
- The Boulevard · Roundabout4 of 4 routes
- Bullockstone Road · Roundabout2 of 4 routes
Roads the routes use most
- Margate Road3 of 4 routes
- A291 Canterbury Road2 of 4 routes
- Broomfield Road2 of 4 routes
- Bullockstone Road2 of 4 routes
- Ford Hill2 of 4 routes
- Ford Road2 of 4 routes
- Hicks Forstal Road2 of 4 routes
- Maypole Road2 of 4 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 10,674 car tests were taken at Herne Bay and 5,970 passed: a pass rate of 55.9%.
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 Herne Bay 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 11 October 2026.