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Loughborough driving test centre

Ark Business Centre, Gordon Road, Loughborough, LE11 1JP

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Pass rate 2025/26
42.3%
GB 50.0% · East Midlands 50.8%
Median wait, Aug 2026
23weeks
Free slots 19.6 weeks ahead
Tests a year
5,502
2,330 passed

Key facts

  • Loughborough's pass rate was 42.3% in 2025/26 from 5,502 tests, 7.7 points below the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 19 of 20 centres in East Midlands (East Midlands average 50.8%), one of the lower pass rates in the region, 8.5 points below it.
  • Since 2021/22 the pass rate has fallen by 4.8 points, from 47.1% to 42.3%.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 23 weeks since booking (longer than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 19.6 weeks ahead.
  • A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 16.3 weeks, so waits have grown by about 6.7 weeks.
  • 36.6% 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.

Loughborough is a hard centre and the numbers say so plainly. The pass rate is nineteenth of twenty in the East Midlands and has fallen since 2021, and the median wait has grown from thirteen weeks a year ago to twenty-three. The driving explains part of it. Forty-one signal-controlled junctions are tagged within two and a half kilometres of the centre, and the routes are dense with turns rather than open road. One practice loop on this page has sixteen right turns and seventeen left inside eleven kilometres. Add twenty-three schools in the same radius and a university town's traffic, and the test asks for sustained observation rather than any one difficult manoeuvre.

Drive the Loughborough test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 51 km in all, with 0 roundabouts and 124 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Loughborough; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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

  • 5 routes · 51 km · 124 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 Meadow Lane
    12.0 km loop with 14 right turns, 15 left turns and a stretch of Stanford Lane.
    12.0 km · 29 turns
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  2. Route 2 · via Belton Road
    10.7 km loop with 16 right turns, 17 left turns and a stretch of Belton Road West Extension.
    10.7 km · 33 turns
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  3. Route 3 · via Nottingham Road
    9.3 km loop with 9 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Loughborough Road.
    9.3 km · 16 turns
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  4. Route 4 · via Meadow Lane
    10.0 km loop with 14 right turns, 17 left turns and a stretch of Belton Road.
    10.0 km · 31 turns
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  5. Route 5 · via Stanford Lane
    9.3 km loop with 9 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Meadow Lane.
    9.3 km · 15 turns
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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.

Turns and traffic lights are what this test is made of. Forty-one signal-controlled junctions sit within two and a half kilometres of the centre, and the practice loops on this page carry up to sixteen right turns and seventeen left inside about eleven kilometres. That is a decision every few hundred metres for the whole drive, and the failures here are rarely one dramatic moment. They are observation thinning out, a mirror skipped on the twelfth turn, or a signal left on after the turn is finished.

Belton Road, Nottingham Road, Meadow Lane and The Rushes carry most of the town driving. Nearly seven in ten roads tagged nearby are 30 mph, and side turnings come close together, so the gap you are turning into is often shorter than it looks.

Roundabouts come as a ring around the town rather than in clusters. Alan Moss Road, Forest Road, Park Road, Beacon Road, Warwick Way and Woodthorpe are the named ones, and eleven mini-roundabouts sit in the area alongside them. On the mini-roundabouts, the fault is treating the painted circle as optional.

Around a fifth of the roads tagged in the radius are 40 mph, mostly on the A512 and the A60 out towards Nottingham, and two level crossings sit in the same area.

Twenty-three schools are inside two and a half kilometres, along with the university. An afternoon slot puts you into that traffic, and it is the single most predictable thing about a Loughborough test.

Waiting time for a test at Loughborough

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

012.525GB 11.9 wks23Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 20262319.64936.6%
Jul 202623242653.8%
Jun 202618243045.4%
May 202617.1243244.8%
Apr 202613.2243838.1%
Mar 20268.3244830.6%

Pass rate at Loughborough, 2007/08 to 2025/26

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

35%47.5%60%GB 50%42.3%07/0811/1216/1720/2125/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/265,50242.3%42.4%42.3%
2024/255,76943.7%44.1%43.2%
2023/245,82440.6%42.8%38.3%
2022/234,45542.8%45.7%39.9%
2021/224,98447.1%48.4%45.8%
2020/211,32655.1%58.0%52.1%
2019/205,19349.7%54.3%45.6%
2018/195,60149.2%54.6%44.6%

East Midlands average 50.8% · GB 50%

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Test day at Loughborough

The centre is in the Ark Business Centre on Gordon Road, close to the middle of Loughborough. Loughborough station is roughly three hundred metres away, which is unusually close, so coming by train and walking is realistic here in a way it is not at most centres.

GOV.UK lists car tests only. Nothing is published about wheelchair access or other arrangements at this centre, so if you need step-free entry or anything agreed beforehand, ring and confirm rather than assuming it is in place.

Parking is not published either. A business centre near a town centre usually has limited shared bays, which is typical rather than confirmed, so instructors tend to drop candidates and park elsewhere. Give yourself the time for that.

Tests are booked, moved and cancelled through GOV.UK only. Waits here are long, and the nearby centres at Nottingham, Leicester and Derby are all showing much shorter ones, which is worth knowing before you book rather than after.

The examiner checks your licence, asks you to sign the declaration that the car is insured for the test, and does the eyesight check outside. The drive starts near the town centre, so you are into signalled junctions and turning traffic within the first minute, without the estate warm-up that many centres give you.

What DVSA publishes about Loughborough

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

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

Learner reports from Loughborough

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 Loughborough.

  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

Ark Business Centre, Gordon Road
Loughborough LE11 1JP

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

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Questions learners ask about Loughborough

Is Loughborough an easy test centre?
Its 42.3% 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 Loughborough?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Loughborough was 23 weeks, and you had to look about 19.6 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 Loughborough driving test centre?
Loughborough test centre is at Ark Business Centre, Gordon Road, Loughborough, LE11 1JP. 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 Loughborough do a year?
5,502 car tests were conducted at Loughborough in 2025/26, of which 2,330 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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