Bury driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Smith Street, BL9 6HH
Bury had a car driving test pass rate of 46.3% from April 2025 to March 2026 (7,024 tests), 3.8 points below the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 18 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 17.9 km and takes around 32 minutes, mostly on A roads (35%) and B roads (30%).
What the practice routes cover
- A roads35%
- B roads30%
- Country lanes21%
- Town and residential roads10%
- Dual carriageways3%
- Other roads1%
On a typical route you'll go through 3 roundabouts and 12 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Heap Bridge Interchange · Large roundabout6 of 18 routes
- Pilsworth Road · Roundabout3 of 18 routes
Roads the routes use most
- A56 Manchester Road10 of 18 routes
- B6222 Bury and Rochdale Old Road7 of 18 routes
- A56 Walmersley Road6 of 18 routes
- B6222 Rochdale Old Road6 of 18 routes
- A58 Bury New Road5 of 18 routes
- A680 Edenfield Road5 of 18 routes
- Parkhills Road5 of 18 routes
- A680 Rochdale Road4 of 18 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 7,024 car tests were taken at Bury and 3,255 passed: a pass rate of 46.3%.
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 18 Bury 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.