West Sussex · London & the South East
Burgess Hill driving test centre
45.5% of car practical tests taken at Burgess Hill passed in 2025-26, from 11,237 tests. Pass rates, local road types and how we prepare you for this centre.
Burgess Hill pass rates
Pass rate 2025-26
45.5%
5,111 passes
National average
50%
-4.5 points here
Tests conducted
11,237
about 936 a month
Best published year
47.1%
2021-22
11,237 car practical tests were taken at Burgess Hill in 2025-26. 45.5% passed, 4.5 percentage points below the national average of 50%. It is up on 2019-20, when 41.8% passed.
Over the published years the rate has moved between 41.8% in 2019-20 and 47.1% in 2021-22, so a single year's figure is a weak guide on its own. In 2025-26 the rate was 44% for male candidates and 47.3% for female candidates. That works out at roughly 936 tests a month, which is what waiting times at Burgess Hill depend on more than the pass rate does.
- Burgess Hill
- National average
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate | National | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 11,237 | 5,111 | 45.5% | 50% | 44% | 47.3% |
| 2024-25 | 11,191 | 4,836 | 43.2% | 48.7% | 41.8% | 45.1% |
| 2023-24 | 13,454 | 5,960 | 44.3% | 47.9% | 43.4% | 45.5% |
| 2022-23 | 7,611 | 3,507 | 46.1% | 48.4% | 46.2% | 45.9% |
| 2021-22 | 6,511 | 3,064 | 47.1% | 48.9% | 48.5% | 45.5% |
| 2019-20 | 7,678 | 3,210 | 41.8% | 45.9% | 44.4% | 39.3% |
Source: DVSA table DRT122A, car practical driving test pass rates by test centre, published on GOV.UK. Figures are financial years running April to March.
Where Burgess Hill test centre is
Arrive ten minutes early and park where you can pull out easily. The waiting room is small at most centres, so your instructor will normally wait in the car park while you take the test.
Driving out of Burgess Hill
Tests from Burgess Hill run mostly on dense residential streets, bus lanes and multi-lane junctions. Those road types sit close together, so several of them can appear in the first ten minutes.
Bus lane timings and cycle lanes both feature; check the signage rather than following the car in front. At least one manoeuvre is usually set on a narrow residential street with traffic passing. Learners across London & the South East often book here without practising locally first — the road types above are the gap to close.
Burgess Hill takes candidates from across West Sussex, so plenty arrive having learned on a different road mix. That usually shows in the first five minutes of the drive.
Book the mock early enough that there is time to fix whatever it finds.
Roads you are likely to meet
Dense residential streets
Bus lanes
Multi-lane junctions
- Bus lane timings and cycle lanes both feature; check the signage rather than following the car in front.
- At least one manoeuvre is usually set on a narrow residential street with traffic passing.
- Learners across London & the South East often book here without practising locally first — the road types above are the gap to close.
Test routes are no longer published by the DVSA, and examiners vary them. Treat this as a guide to the local road types rather than a route list. Book your test and check availability on GOV.UK.
Where marks are lost at Burgess Hill
Meeting traffic and clearance
Whose priority it is, how much room you leave for parked cars, and whether you wait in a safe place — all marked closely on these streets.
Bus, cycle and tram lanes
The sign is small and the decision point is early. Learners who wait until the lane markings change have usually already committed.
How we prepare you for this centre
Time on the real roads
We plan the final sessions around Burgess Hill itself, so the dense residential streets you meet on test day are ones you have already driven.
A full mock test
A full-length mock from the Burgess Hill area, scored on the DVSA sheet so you see exactly where the marks went.
Manoeuvres in real locations
All four test manoeuvres, practised in the kind of streets examiners around Burgess Hill actually use.
The paperwork and the routine
We walk the whole sequence — arrival, documents, eyesight check, independent drive — so nothing on the day is new.
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Burgess Hill test centre FAQs
What are the test routes like at Burgess Hill?
The DVSA stopped publishing official routes, and examiners vary them. In practice, routes from Burgess Hill draw on dense residential streets, bus lanes, multi-lane junctions, so those are the conditions to rehearse rather than a fixed sequence of streets.
What do learners most often fail on at Burgess Hill?
meeting traffic and clearance, bus, cycle and tram lanes — all of which come directly from the road types on the local network.
Can I take an intensive course and test at Burgess Hill?
Yes. We match you with a DVSA approved instructor who teaches on these roads day to day, and we look for the earliest practical slot at Burgess Hill.
How do I book a practical test at Burgess Hill?
Practical tests are booked through GOV.UK with your provisional licence and theory certificate numbers. We can check cancellations for you once your course dates are set.
What happens when I get to Burgess Hill?
Arrive with your provisional licence and a car that is legal, insured for the test and has no warning lights showing. We handle that side if you use one of our instructors' cars.
Is Burgess Hill an easy test centre?
Pass rates are published by the DVSA, but they say more about the mix of candidates than the difficulty of the routes. Practising the road types above will move your odds more than switching centres.
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