Maidstone driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Unit 1 North Court, South Park Business Village, Armstrong Road, ME15 6JZ
Maidstone had a car driving test pass rate of 60.2% from April 2025 to March 2026 (8,053 tests), 10.1 points above the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 8 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 13.5 km and takes around 28 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (36%) and country lanes (23%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads36%
- Country lanes23%
- Dual carriageways15%
- A roads15%
- B roads8%
- Other roads2%
On a typical route you'll go through 2 roundabouts and 13 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Sandling Road · Roundabout2 of 8 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A229 Loose Road7 of 8 routes
- Stockett Lane4 of 8 routes
- A229 Linton Road2 of 8 routes
- A229 Upper Stone Street2 of 8 routes
- A274 Sutton Road2 of 8 routes
- B2163 Heath Road2 of 8 routes
- Boughton Lane2 of 8 routes
- Boxley Road2 of 8 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 8,053 car tests were taken at Maidstone and 4,850 passed: a pass rate of 60.2%.
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 8 Maidstone 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 7 October 2026.