Bridgend driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Crown Building, CF31 4AD
Bridgend had a car driving test pass rate of 53.3% from April 2025 to March 2026 (5,990 tests), 3.2 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 16.8 km and takes around 28 minutes, mostly on country lanes (33%) and town and residential roads (21%).
What the practice routes cover
- Country lanes33%
- Town and residential roads21%
- A roads17%
- Dual carriageways13%
- B roads13%
- Other roads3%
On a typical route you'll go through 6 roundabouts and 14 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Coychurch Road · Roundabout4 of 10 routes
- A4061 / A4061 Boulevard de Villenave d'Ornon · Roundabout3 of 10 routes
- A4061 / A4063 · Large roundabout2 of 10 routes
- A4061 Rotary International Way / Heol West Plas · Large roundabout2 of 10 routes
- A4063 / A4063 Bridgend Road · Roundabout2 of 10 routes
- A4063 Bridgend Road / A4061 · Roundabout2 of 10 routes
- A48 / A48 Island Road · Large roundabout2 of 10 routes
- A48 By Pass Road / A48 Island Road · Large roundabout2 of 10 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A48 Island Road5 of 10 routes
- Heol Ewenni5 of 10 routes
- B4181 Coychurch Road4 of 10 routes
- A40613 of 10 routes
- A4061 Rotary International Way3 of 10 routes
- A4063 Tondu Road3 of 10 routes
- A483 of 10 routes
- A48 Crack Hill3 of 10 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 5,990 car tests were taken at Bridgend and 3,193 passed: a pass rate of 53.3%.
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 Bridgend 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 24 October 2026.