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Aberdeen South Cove

3 suggested routes

📍 Aberdeen South (Cove), Moss Road, Gateway Business Park, Nigg, Aberdeen, AB12 3GQ

52.4%

practical test pass rate at Aberdeen South Cove (2025-26) — 2,546 of 4,858 tests passed. The national average over the same period was about 50%. Source: DVSA.

⚠️ Test centres occasionally close or relocate, and DVSA's own published centre list doesn't reliably reflect this. Please confirm the test centre address on your official booking confirmation before using this route.
🤖 These are suggested practice loops, not real test routes. We don't yet have a sourced route for this centre from a driving school or test-taker. Instead, these loops are built automatically from real local roads around the test centre, checked to make sure they're a sensible, drivable, non-repeating circuit of roughly the right length — but no examiner has ever driven them and they're not based on any known test. Use them to get comfortable with the kinds of roads near your centre, not as a predicted route.

We don't yet have a sourced practice route for the DVSA test centre in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. These 3 loops are automatically suggested from real local roads near the centre, checked for a sensible non-repeating circuit -- not based on an actual observed test.

Aberdeen -- route shapes
Blue line = actual driven path (from test centre). Numbered markers = forcing waypoints, in order. Red marker = test centre.

Routes

Shape of Route 1 Route 1
From test centre From my location

Where you'll likely practise manoeuvres: This route takes in 8 roundabouts along the way, good practice for exit counting even without a single standout one to call out by name. A stretch of the A92 brings some higher-speed driving into an otherwise residential route. Langdykes Road, Earn's Heugh Road and Loirston Avenue sit close together on this route, good practice for junction positioning under pressure.

Shape of Route 2 Route 2
From test centre From my location

Where you'll likely practise manoeuvres: This route takes in 13 roundabouts along the way, good practice for exit counting even without a single standout one to call out by name. The route drives into Earns Heugh Avenue off Earns Heugh Circle and back out -- a realistic spot for a reverse or turn-in-the-road manoeuvre. Expect a change of pace on the A92 and B9077, a dual-carriageway-style stretch among the residential turns.

Shape of Route 3 Route 3
From test centre From my location

Where you'll likely practise manoeuvres: Bridge of Dee Roundabout is named roundabouts on this loop, each one worth a moment's extra care on exit counting. The route drives into Westerton Road and North Deeside Road off Inchgarth Road and back out -- a realistic spot for a reverse or turn-in-the-road manoeuvre. A stretch of the A92 brings some higher-speed driving into an otherwise residential route.

🚦 Looking for the theory test, not the practical? This page covers practical test routes only — the theory test (multiple-choice questions plus hazard perception) is a separate exam held at different venues. Use the official theory test centre finder to find your nearest one and book at gov.uk/book-theory-test. See theory test vs. practical test for how the two differ. Once you've passed, bookmark this page — come back and work through Aberdeen South Cove's practice routes above before your practical.
The DVSA stopped publishing official test routes in 2010, and no third-party source for this specific centre exists yet — see the note above. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the DVSA.

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