Loughborough driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate

Ark Business Centre, Gordon Road, LE11 1JP

Loughborough had a car driving test pass rate of 42.3% from April 2025 to March 2026 (5,502 tests), 7.8 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 22.2 km and takes around 29 minutes, mostly on country lanes (40%) and A roads (32%).

Map of the roads covered by the 4 practice routes around Loughborough driving test centre
All 4 practice routes drawn together: the roads they cover around the centre (red). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What the practice routes cover

  • Country lanes40%
  • A roads32%
  • Town and residential roads19%
  • Dual carriageways4%
  • B roads4%
  • Other roads1%

On a typical route you'll go through 6 roundabouts and 9 sets of traffic lights.

Roundabouts on several routes

  • A6 Derby Road · Large roundabout2 of 4 routes
  • Bishop Meadow Roundabout · Large roundabout2 of 4 routes

Roads the routes use most

  • Meadow Lane3 of 4 routes
  • A6 Derby Road2 of 4 routes
  • A60 Nottingham Road2 of 4 routes
  • A6006 Rempstone Road2 of 4 routes
  • Leake Lane2 of 4 routes
  • Stanford Road2 of 4 routes

Pass rate

From April 2025 to March 2026, 5,502 car tests were taken at Loughborough and 2,330 passed: a pass rate of 42.3%.

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 Loughborough routes in the app with turn-by-turn navigation, then record your drive and get an AI report on how it went.

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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 29 October 2026.

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