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About Driving Routes

We publish the real road routes examiners use at UK and US driving test centres, so learners can practise the actual roads before test day.

Driving Routes

Practise your real test routes

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Why we built this

Learner drivers spend months in lessons. The week before the practical test, most of them ask the same question: which roads will I actually be driven on? Until Driving Routes, the answer was a mix of forum threads, instructor word-of-mouth, and outdated PDFs.

That gap mattered. The DVSA publishes pass rates by centre, and they vary from about 30% to over 70%. Most of that variation comes from the local road environment — junctions, roundabouts, and tricky merges that you can't be ready for without seeing them. Route familiarity is the single biggest variable a learner can change in the two weeks before their test.

We started by mapping the routes at one Cambridge test centre with a single instructor. We grew by adding instructors centre-by-centre. Today we publish 1,900+ routes at 370+ UK and 100+ US centres, all hand-verified by approved driving instructors or recent test-takers.

How we work

Every route is verified before it goes live. An approved instructor or a recent test-taker drives the route, records the waypoints, and submits notes. Our editorial team reviews against the centre's known routes and publishes once we're confident. Routes are re-verified whenever roadworks or road changes invalidate a section.

We are independent — not endorsed by the DVSA, the DMV, or any government driving authority. Routes are our own work, compiled with the help of contributing instructors.

Our principles

  • Verified routes only. If an instructor or a recent test-taker hasn't verified it, it doesn't go live.
  • We never sell user data. Practice sessions, pass reports, and saved centres are private to each account.
  • Honest comparisons. On our comparison and alternatives pages, we tell you when a competitor is the better fit.
  • Routes are a tool, not a guarantee. Driving skill, mirror habits and observation matter as much as route knowledge — and we say so.

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