Poole driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
4 - 20 Harwell Road, Nuffield Industrial Estate, BH17 0SA
Poole had a car driving test pass rate of 53.4% from April 2025 to March 2026 (10,375 tests), 3.3 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 14.8 km, mostly on B roads (30%) and town and residential roads (29%).
What the practice routes cover
- B roads30%
- Town and residential roads29%
- A roads22%
- Country lanes10%
- Dual carriageways8%
- Other roads1%
On a typical route you'll go through 12 roundabouts and 11 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Ashdown Roundabout · Large roundabout3 of 4 routes
- Canford Heath Roundabout · Roundabout3 of 4 routes
- Fleetsbridge Roundabout · Large roundabout3 of 4 routes
- Mannings Heath Roundabout · Large roundabout3 of 4 routes
- Stinsford Road Roundabout · Roundabout3 of 4 routes
- Mannings Heath Road · Large roundabout2 of 4 routes
- Seaview Roundabout · Roundabout2 of 4 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A35 Wimborne Road3 of 4 routes
- B3074 Canford Heath Road3 of 4 routes
- Hatch Pond Road3 of 4 routes
- A3049 Dorset Way2 of 4 routes
- A349 Waterloo Road2 of 4 routes
- A35 Fernside Road2 of 4 routes
- B3068 Ringwood Road2 of 4 routes
- Stinsford Road2 of 4 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 10,375 car tests were taken at Poole and 5,538 passed: a pass rate of 53.4%.
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 4 Poole 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.