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Choosing an Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) is never easy
Why choose an ADI?
- Well, it's rare that anyone other than an Approved Driving
Instructor will have the training and knowledge to provide you
with the skills to drive safely
- ADIs are trained to a very high standard and have taken and
passed a complex theory test, an advanced driving test and a
strict test of teaching abilities
How are ADIs graded?
- Fully qualified ADIs must take further regular tests, known
as check tests. During a "live" driving lesson an ADI is
examined by a Senior Examiner employed by the Driving Standards
Agency (DSA)
- Check tests are supposed to maintain the quality of driving
instruction
- The quality is defined by the Driving Standards Agency
- At the end of a check test an ADI is graded according to
ability. An Examiner will use his or her skill to decide the
grade for the Instructor!
- Grade 4 Competent
- Grade 5 Good
- Grade 6 A very high standard
What do the Grades mean?
- Grade 4 "A competent overall performance with some minor
deficiencies in instructional technique"
- Grade 5 "A good overall performance with some minor
weaknesses in instructional technique"
- Grade 6 "Overall performance to a very high standard with no
significant instructional weaknesses"
- Less than 5% of all ADIs are Grade 6
- There are about 35,000 ADIs on the ADI register.
- Not all ADIs teach full time
- Some have full time jobs and teach to supplement their
income, others are retired and teach to supplement their pension
- Many teach full time
- Some ADIs specialise in driver instructor training
Qualified or Trainee Driving Instructor?
- Qualified ADIs display a GREEN licence on their car
windscreen
- ADI's have passed all their exams
- PDI's display a PINK licence,
- PDI's have not passed all their exams
- Sadly many PDI's never qualify to become ADIs
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ADIs and PDI's must if, they are giving paid tuition, display
their licence by law
How do I choose?
- Grade
- Reliability
- Punctuality
- Reputation
- The tuition car
- Try not to be guided either by price or unique driving and
teaching techniques
- If it sounds too good to be true
- Then it probably is
It is true to say that the most expensive is not always the best
and the cheapest is not always the worst, however it is extremely
unlikely that you will find a grade 6 ADI offering cheap
driving tuition
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