St Albans driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Beauver House, 6 Bricket Road, AL1 3JX
St Albans had a car driving test pass rate of 50.7% from April 2025 to March 2026 (7,336 tests), about the same as the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 11 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 16.5 km and takes around 29 minutes, mostly on A roads (31%) and country lanes (27%).
What the practice routes cover
- A roads31%
- Country lanes27%
- Town and residential roads22%
- B roads16%
- Dual carriageways3%
- Other roads2%
On a typical route you'll go through 10 roundabouts and 15 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- A5183 St Stephen's Hill / A5183 Holywell Hill · Roundabout5 of 11 routes
- Batchwood Roundabout · Roundabout4 of 11 routes
- A1057 Hatfield Road / A1081 St Peter's Street · Mini-roundabout3 of 11 routes
- A1081 St Peter's Street / A1057 Hatfield Road · Mini-roundabout2 of 11 routes
- B5378 Shenley Lane · Roundabout2 of 11 routes
- Bluehouse Hill Roundabout · Roundabout2 of 11 routes
- Green Lane · Roundabout2 of 11 routes
- Hogg End Lane / Green Lane · Roundabout2 of 11 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A1057 Hatfield Road5 of 11 routes
- Sandpit Lane4 of 11 routes
- A1081 Harpenden Road3 of 11 routes
- A5183 Holywell Hill3 of 11 routes
- B4630 Watford Road3 of 11 routes
- Green Lane3 of 11 routes
- Marshalswick Lane3 of 11 routes
- A1081 London Road2 of 11 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 7,336 car tests were taken at St Albans and 3,721 passed: a pass rate of 50.7%.
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 11 St Albans 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 24 October 2026.