Part 3 Online

Hundreds of PDIs pass the ADI Part 3 test every year – and thousands fail!

Part 3 Online is designed to enable you to join the ranks of the few – see how my training worked for Mark Hudson who is now a successful ADI and came to me after failing two attempts at the ADI Part 3 test:

“just had to say a huge thank you to Harry Elkan for making my dreams come true, finally now I can get on with my life, your ADI training is without doubt the best, would have been back in the wilderness without it. Simply the best!!!!”

Use the tabs below to get a flavour of what you’ll find in the rest of the site.

Your knowledge of driving as a subject is not specifically tested during the ADI Part 3 test – but still plays a very important part in determining the outcome of the test.

Many Part 3 Test candidates have experienced the frustration of not being able to “find” the right words to say in the pressurised environment of the test. So throughout the site I look at each of the PST subject areas and show you all the subject matter related to them – you’ll know most of it already!

But most importantly I put the information into an easily learned format that you can use in your ADI Part 3 test briefing and in your instruction during the lesson; learning to deliver your information in this way enables you to “find” the right words at the right time almost without conscious effort – and that means never struggling to “find” the right words again.

Knowledge of the what is required in each of the PST subject areas in relation to the test itself, knowing what to expect from the S.E., and planning how to deal with the common scenarios that you’re likely to encounter during the ADI Part 3 test enables you to plan so that you know exactly what will happen from the moment you meet the examiner until they say “that’s the end of your Part 3 test”.

To help your preparation there are sections dedicated to help you properly understand what the S.E. will be looking for and how they make their assessment on the Part 3 test marking sheet (the ADI 26).

When you study the PST sections you’ll find practical examples of how to deliver your planned instruction in relation to the scenarios that you can expect to encounter and you’ll see examples of plans designed to ensure that you are in control of the lesson instead of letting the lesson instead of the “lesson taking you”.

Your examiner will tell you that the Part 3 test is an assessment of your instructional ability – and that means that they’ll be assessing the wide range of skills that ADI’s use to deliver instruction to their pupils.

You’ll be able to study each of these skills in isolation and then see them “in action” in relation to the PST subjects as you manoeuvre your way through the rest of the site. Skills only develop with practice; but you’ll see that much of what you need to do to develop your instructional techniques can be done without even getting into the car!

Your control skills are probably not the most important in relation to the S.E’s. assessment, but they’re almost certainly the most important element in relation to ensuring success in the Part 3 test – if you’ve been unsuccessful in a test so far and felt a lack of control you’ll know what I mean; good ADI’s are always in control – and you can be once you’ve been shown how.

Your ability to control the lesson, the pupil and the car are essential skills that enable you to know when to allow the pupil “full rein”, when you need to take control yourself, know when and why driving errors have been made and are crucial in showing the pupil how to do things.

But few Part 3 test candidates have a real understanding of what “Control” means – it’s quite simple, I describe it as:

Control skills are so important that there’s a full section dedicated to them, and you’ll see hundreds of examples of “control skills in action” as you examine the various areas of the site. Once you’ve got good control skills you’re well on the way to achieving your pass grade in the Part 3 test.

The quality of your instruction in the Part 3 test is assessed by the S.E. in relation to your Core Competencies. Effective instruction is reliant on your subject knowledge, planning, control and the other skills that are assessed during the examination.

If you study the information available throughout the site you’ll know every error the Part 3 “pupil” can make, when they’ll make it and how to include pro-active instruction into your lesson.

There is an instructional section for all the PST subject areas with hundreds of examples of how to deliver effective instruction – the only thing left to learn is the method that shows you how to consistently give the S.E. what they’re looking for.