Bolton driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Weston Street, Great Lever, BL3 2AW
Bolton had a car driving test pass rate of 51.8% from April 2025 to March 2026 (11,570 tests), 1.7 points above the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 10 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 13.9 km and takes around 27 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (37%) and A roads (35%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads37%
- A roads35%
- B roads15%
- Dual carriageways9%
- Country lanes5%
On a typical route you'll go through 3 roundabouts and 20 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Bridgeman Street / Thynne Street · Mini-roundabout3 of 10 routes
- Thynne Street · Roundabout3 of 10 routes
Roads the routes use most
- Bradford Road4 of 10 routes
- A579 Bradford Street3 of 10 routes
- A579 Bury Road3 of 10 routes
- A6053 Hall Lane3 of 10 routes
- B6209 Radcliffe Road3 of 10 routes
- Long Lane3 of 10 routes
- A58 Crompton Way2 of 10 routes
- A6053 Church Street2 of 10 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 11,570 car tests were taken at Bolton and 5,996 passed: a pass rate of 51.8%.
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 10 Bolton 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 26 October 2026.