Birmingham (South Yardley) driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Clay Lane, B26 1EA
Birmingham (South Yardley) had a car driving test pass rate of 42.8% from April 2025 to March 2026 (14,471 tests), 7.3 points below the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 14 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 13.4 km and takes around 26 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (66%) and dual carriageways (11%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads66%
- Dual carriageways11%
- A roads11%
- B roads8%
- Country lanes4%
On a typical route you'll go through 9 roundabouts and 5 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Swan Island · Large roundabout9 of 14 routes
- A4040 Yardley Road / B4146 Yardley Road · Large roundabout5 of 14 routes
- Wash Lane · Roundabout5 of 14 routes
- Church Road · Large roundabout3 of 14 routes
- Folliott Road / Mirfield Road · Roundabout3 of 14 routes
- Hob Moor Road · Roundabout3 of 14 routes
- Shirley Road · Roundabout3 of 14 routes
- A4040 · Roundabout2 of 14 routes
Roads the routes use most
- Clay Lane14 of 14 routes
- A45 Coventry Road8 of 14 routes
- A41 Warwick Road6 of 14 routes
- Garretts Green Lane5 of 14 routes
- B4146 Wharfdale Road4 of 14 routes
- Church Road4 of 14 routes
- Brays Road3 of 14 routes
- Gilbertstone Avenue3 of 14 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 14,471 car tests were taken at Birmingham (South Yardley) and 6,199 passed: a pass rate of 42.8%.
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 14 Birmingham (South Yardley) routes in the app with turn-by-turn navigation, then record your drive and get an AI report on how it went.
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 27 October 2026.