{"id":2817,"date":"2010-06-20T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2010-06-20T20:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T20:00:04","slug":"can-you-pass-your-test-without-an-adi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"Can You Pass Your Test Without An ADI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone found the site through the search term &#8220;unlikely to pass driving test without adi&#8221;. I&#8217;m not sure what exactly they had in mind, but it&#8217;s worth a few words.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you can take your driving test without having had any tuition at all?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes. Obviously, in the vast majority of cases this would be extremely unwise. You need to be able to drive reasonably well to pass the test.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you have to be taught by an ADI?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No. Anyone can teach you &#8211; but they have to be teaching you the right things in order for you to pass the test and be safe on the roads afterwards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do I have to pay them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The DSA says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It is illegal for a person to provide driving instruction for a fee if they are not suitably qualified and registered with the DSA. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember that this applies to private practice as well. If you are being supervised by a qualified driver then they are providing driving instruction &#8211; and that applies equally to nipping to Tescos with <em>you<\/em> driving as much as it does to going out specifically to practice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can I use my own car for my test?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes. It just needs to be up to standard (head restraint for examiner, fully roadworthy, etc.) and insured properly. You have to make sure you have a separate rear view mirror for the examiner and L plates fitted &#8211; though in many cases the examiner will provide these if you don&#8217;t (I&#8217;ve seen jokers turning up with handmade L plates having to put ones on the examiner has produced so the test can go ahead).<\/p>\n<p>In the past I have had pupils who have been taught by their parents (or friends), and those parents have done a bloody good job. The reason they then decide to hand over to professional tuition is because they don&#8217;t know enough to complete the job to the required level (and that&#8217;s just because they aren&#8217;t as up to date with everything as ADIs are).<\/p>\n<p>I get far more people who have been taught by parents or friends who are absolutely awful, though. You can&#8217;t teach someone to be a better driver than you are, and most people are just not good enough to pass the test themselves these days, so they&#8217;re hardly gojng to be passing on best practices to those they are trying to help.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not meant to be insulting: it&#8217;s just honest. Most people wouldn&#8217;t pass the test if they took it tomorrow, so they aren&#8217;t going to be able to teach someone else to drive or pass the test.<\/p>\n<p>However, part of the problem here is that although most people wouldn&#8217;t pass the test if they took it again, most of <em>those<\/em> firmly believe they would.<\/p>\n<p>I like to take one of the parents out with me at some point so I can show them what to look for when they are supervising the pupil. A bad habit can be formed in an instant, but it can take many months to get rid of, so it makes sense that the pupil doesn&#8217;t get mixed messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone found the site through the search term &#8220;unlikely to pass driving test without adi&#8221;. I&#8217;m not sure what exactly they had in mind, but it&#8217;s worth a few words. Can you can take your driving test without having had any tuition at all? Yes. Obviously, in the vast majority of cases this would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}