Swansea driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Burrows Rd, Off Langdon Rd, Kings Dock, St Thomas, SA1 8QY
Swansea had a car driving test pass rate of 48.2% from April 2025 to March 2026 (12,375 tests), 1.9 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 12 km, mostly on country lanes (30%) and town and residential roads (29%).
What the practice routes cover
- Country lanes30%
- Town and residential roads29%
- A roads22%
- B roads10%
- Dual carriageways8%
- Other roads1%
On a typical route you'll go through 9 roundabouts and 11 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Langdon Road · Roundabout4 of 4 routes
- King's Road · Large roundabout3 of 4 routes
- A4217 / A4067 · Large roundabout2 of 4 routes
Roads the routes use most
- Langdon Road4 of 4 routes
- Dinam Road3 of 4 routes
- A40672 of 4 routes
- A4067 Foxhole Road2 of 4 routes
- A42172 of 4 routes
- A483 New Cut Road2 of 4 routes
- B4489 Llangyfelach Street2 of 4 routes
- Coch-y-Cwm Road2 of 4 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 12,375 car tests were taken at Swansea and 5,970 passed: a pass rate of 48.2%.
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 4 Swansea 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.