York driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate

Arabesque House, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, YO32 9GW

York had a car driving test pass rate of 54.4% from April 2025 to March 2026 (9,416 tests), 4.3 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 9.9 km and takes around 19 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (50%) and country lanes (26%).

What the practice routes cover

  • Town and residential roads50%
  • Country lanes26%
  • A roads16%
  • Other roads5%
  • B roads3%
  • Dual carriageways1%

On a typical route you'll go through 9 roundabouts and 7 sets of traffic lights.

Roundabouts on several routes

  • Monks Cross Drive · Roundabout4 of 4 routes
  • Jockey Lane / Monks Cross Drive · Large roundabout2 of 4 routes
  • Monks Cross Drive / Jockey Lane · Large roundabout2 of 4 routes

Roads the routes use most

  • Jockey Lane4 of 4 routes
  • Monks Cross Drive3 of 4 routes
  • A1036 Malton Road2 of 4 routes
  • A1237 Ring Road2 of 4 routes
  • Haxby Road2 of 4 routes
  • Monks Cross Link2 of 4 routes
  • New Lane2 of 4 routes
  • Whitestone Drive2 of 4 routes

Pass rate

From April 2025 to March 2026, 9,416 car tests were taken at York and 5,125 passed: a pass rate of 54.4%.

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 York 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 11 October 2026.

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