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Choosing an 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 10% of all ADIs are Grade 6
- There are about 27,000 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?
- Qualified ADIs display a GREEN licence on their car windscreen
- PDIs display a PINK licence, PDIs have not taken the final qualifying ADI test
ADIs and PDIs must if, they are giving paid tuition, display their licence by law
- It is an offence to give driving tuition for gain and not be a registered ADI or PDI
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 higher grade ADI
offering cheap driving tuition
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