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Dudley driving test centre

Newton House, The Pensnett Estate, Kingswinford, DY6 7YE

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Pass rate 2025/26
45.2%
GB 50.0% · West Midlands 46.2%
Median wait, Aug 2026
14.3weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
13,721
6,200 passed

Key facts

  • Dudley's pass rate was 45.2% in 2025/26 from 13,721 tests, 4.8 points below the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 18 of 26 centres in West Midlands (West Midlands average 46.2%), one of the lower pass rates in the region.
  • Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 5.2 points, from 40% to 45.2%.
  • Male candidates passed at 48% and female candidates at 42.1%, a gap of 5.9 points.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 14.3 weeks since booking (longer than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • 42.9% of the standard slots in the booking window were still unbooked in August 2026, which usually means a cancellation or new date is realistic here.

Dudley is one of the busiest test centres in the country, at 13,721 car tests a year, and one of the harder ones: 45.2 per cent, 257th of the 302 centres ranked. It is still the best of its immediate neighbours. Wolverhampton passes 34.3 per cent, Wednesbury 35 and Featherstone 36.4, so people travel towards Kingswinford rather than away from it. The practice loops on this page are almost entirely 30 mph — 81 per cent of the distance — and built around roundabouts and right turns rather than traffic lights, with one loop asking for eleven right turns in 12.3 kilometres. The pass rate has risen 5.2 points since 2021/22, which is against the national direction.

Drive the Dudley test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 52 km in all, with 15 roundabouts and 102 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Dudley; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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Drive all 5 loops around Dudley from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 52 km · 102 marked turns
  • Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
  • Street View tour of each route
  • Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
  • The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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  1. Route 1 · via Stallings Lane
    12.3 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Bromley Lane.
    12.3 km · 25 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via Bromley Lane
    10.0 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Stallings Lane.
    10.0 km · 19 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  3. Route 3 · via Himley Road
    11.1 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 1 left turn and a stretch of Dudley Road.
    11.1 km · 12 turns · 4 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Stallings Lane
    8.7 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Dudley Road.
    8.7 km · 21 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  5. Route 5 · via Dudley Road
    10.2 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of High Street.
    10.2 km · 25 turns · 2 roundabouts
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

Right turns are what this test is made of. Four of the five practice loops on this page ask for ten or eleven of them, one of them eleven inside 8.7 kilometres, and another takes seven right turns against a single left. Every one is a crossing of oncoming traffic on a 30 mph road, and 81 per cent of the distance is at 30.

The junctions are mostly roundabouts. Six are named on the loops — Holbeache Road, Shut End, Stallings Lane, Tansey Green Road, Kidderminster Road and Wolverhampton Road — with three mini-roundabouts as well, and against those only nine sets of traffic signals and six give-way junctions in the whole set. The mini-roundabouts are where marks go. The give-way rule still applies at one; treating it as a painted circle to drive straight over is the fault examiners see most on these roads.

Bromley Lane, Stallings Lane, Dudley Road, High Street, Standhills Road and Second Avenue carry most of the driving, linked by the B4175, B4176, B4179 and B4180, with the A461 and A4101 at the edges. Thirty-one schools sit inside the area, and that is where the 10 per cent of 20 mph road comes from — limits that drop for a school and are easy to miss on a road that was 30 mph a moment earlier.

Eight per cent of the distance is at 60 mph, and there are no level crossings anywhere on the set.

Pass rate at Dudley, 2018/19 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

35%45%55%GB 50%45.2%18/1921/2225/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/2613,72145.2%48.0%42.1%
2024/2511,35445.7%48.2%43.0%
2023/2412,17742.0%45.1%39.0%
2022/2311,70641.7%45.5%37.9%
2021/2211,62540.0%42.4%37.5%
2020/213,30841.1%46.2%36.4%
2019/2010,60241.6%45.8%37.9%
2018/1910,47444.9%50.7%40.2%

West Midlands average 46.2% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Dudley

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

012.525GB 11.9 wks14.3Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202614.3243042.9%
Jul 202614.3243039.8%
Jun 202615.4243642.2%
May 20269.6244737.1%
Apr 20269.1244736%
Mar 202612244437.2%

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Test day at Dudley

The centre is Newton House on the Pensnett Estate at Kingswinford, DY6 7YE. That is a working industrial estate rather than Dudley town centre, so travel to the postcode and not the name. Car tests are conducted here, along with ADI part 3 — the examiner's test for instructors — so the waiting room is sometimes half instructors.

GOV.UK publishes nothing about parking at this site. Business-park centres of this kind normally leave you to find a space on the estate roads; assume the marked bays belong to the units and give yourself a few minutes to walk in.

The wait was a median of 14.3 weeks for tests taken in July 2026, against a national 11.9, and the first week with a tenth of its slots still free was 24 weeks out. That is an improvement: a year earlier the median was 18.4 weeks.

The month makes a small difference here. August returned 47.1 per cent and November 42.1. Men passed at 48 per cent and women at 42.1. Tests are booked, moved and cancelled through GOV.UK only.

What DVSA publishes about Dudley

Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.

Tests conducted here
carADI part 3
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Learner reports from Dudley

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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What examiners mark most often

DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Dudley.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

Newton House, The Pensnett Estate
Kingswinford DY6 7YE

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Dudley

Is Dudley an easy test centre?
Its 45.2% pass rate in 2025/26 is below the 50.0% national average. Busy urban roads and complex junctions usually explain lower rates; knowing the local routes closes most of that gap.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Dudley?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Dudley was 14.3 weeks, and you had to look about 24 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
Where is Dudley driving test centre?
Dudley test centre is at Newton House, The Pensnett Estate, Kingswinford, DY6 7YE. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
How many driving tests does Dudley do a year?
13,721 car tests were conducted at Dudley in 2025/26, of which 6,200 were passed.

Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.

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