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Whats it like to be a driving instructor with a difficult pupil?

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  That’s a very good question there is no doubting it is one of the most challenging aspects to become a driving instructor When a pupil is either unresponsive or just being difficult you have to try your best to just rise above it after all the reality is, that you are trying to help them to gain a driving license and to get their freedom by being able to drive. You are fully aware Learning to drive is an expensive undertaking and that you want to save them money and get them to test standard as quickly as possible, after all who wants to be waiting months and months and months to get to Driving test standard? The fact that you don’t want to listen to your instructor, or the most annoying part, is when they think they know more than you and as a result they feel they don’t have to do what you’re asking them. Recently we had a pupil who quite outwardly stated to their driving instructor that they didn’t like to be told what to do, well in that case why come to learn with

ADI Standards Check Test Training

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  ADI STANDARDS CHECK CHANGES   The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is making 2 changes to the way that approved driving instructor (ADI) standards checks work . ADI standards checks assess your ability to teach pupils . The changes affect: when you’ll have to take a standards check the support you get from DVSA before you take your standards check The changes do not apply to motorcycle trainer standards checks.     2. When you have to take an ADI standards check Until now, you’ve had to take at least one standards check during each 4-year period that you’re registered as an ADI. The date you took your last standards check has been used to decide when you have to take your next one. DVSA has introduced a new method to decide when you have to take your standards check. It now uses data from the driving tests your pupils have taken. 2.1 Indicators DVSA looks at DVSA will look at data for the last 12 months for the pupils you brought for a