Hello, so in this video, I'm going to tell you how to get a driving test quicker for free. You
don't have to sign up to any websites, it won't cost you a penny and you can do all this fast
free and easily. These are up to date fresh tips from my 20 years experience as a driving instructor
so let's get straight into it. The first tip is that your instructor's ADI number could be
incorrectly set up. Now you might be thinking what's an ADI number? What difference does
that make to me? Every driving instructor has a reference number and when you become an instructor
you can log into a system and tell it the dates and times that you're available for driving tests.
The thing is, many driving instructors set this up years and years ago and they've actually forgotten
to update it which means the driving test that they could do are not showing up on the system.
To get around this problem, look for a driving test without using your driving instructor's
ADI number. You may well find that there are many tests available but it's just because your
instructor's number was incorrectly set up, it was maybe blocking Tuesday mornings or maybe blocking
weekend tests that they didn't use to do but they now do. You may find that a test becomes
available when you wouldn't have otherwise seen it. Search for new driving test centres.
You may be surprised to learn that driving test centres do pop up every now and then and if you're
just looking at the same one over and over you may not even know that there is another one next door
which has got loads of tests available and you're missing out. This happened to me only a few years
ago when the pupil contacted me and said "Do you do driving tests at this leisure centre?"
which is almost next door to the test centre that I always use and I thought the pupil had it wrong.
I thought what are they talking about? There's not even a test centre there, it's a leisure centre.
So I went online, looked it up and what do you know?There was a test centre there! These are what
you call pop-up test centres. They are temporary test centres that appear when other centres are
fully booked and they take the pressure off those of the centres to get the waiting times down.
If you're just constantly looking for the same test centre, make sure you do a search
around your local area and see if there are any new driving test centres that have appeared.
What if you found a driving test and it's at a time that you really don't want to do? Or maybe
your instructor doesn't work then; if you've searched for one without using an ADI number
and you've seen someone come up at seven in the morning for example. Where I am in Birmingham,
the first tests begin at 704 am. If you want to know why the tests begin at such weird times there
will be a link in the description to a page on my website explaining that. But what if your driving
instructor really does not want to do one of these tests? Maybe on a weekend or it's very early or
at a time that they don't normally work? Well here's a great tip for you: offer your instructor
an incentive to do that test. A few years ago I had a pupil who was desperate for a driving test
and there was one available at seven in the morning that I really didn't want to do.
The pupil offered me to recommend one of their friends who wanted driving lessons.
They were a complete beginner so they'd be taking a whole course of driving lessons, so effectively
if I was to do that driving test early in the morning I'd get over a thousand pounds of income
from a new pupil. You might be surprised to learn that I did that driving test! So do make
your driving instructor an offer. As long as it's something that's legal of course - don't
offer them something daft. But if you make them a sensible offer like recommending a friend or
maybe putting a post on your social media linking to some of their videos anything that you offer
an instructor could be an incentive for them to want to do a test and the otherwise may not do it.
So don't be afraid to ask because if you don't ask you don't get. Keep refreshing the pages and
looking for tests regularly. I often hear from pupils that say they had to look yesterday and
there weren't any tests and I ask them "Well how often did you look?" and they said, "Well, I went
on there once". Driving test cancellations come and go within minutes, sometimes within seconds.
I've been on the system myself and seen the tests come up and by the time I've clicked on it, just
seconds later, it's already gone. Because when you click on a test you reserve it for a short
amount of time when you can then contact your instructor to check if they can do it. So if you
really are serious about getting a driving test quicker faster and sooner keep checking the page
often. Log in several times a day and look don't just look once a day because tests come and go
very quickly. Ask your driving instructor if there's any chance you can swap a test with
another pupil of theirs. This is something I've done over the years when I've had a pupil who's
had a test coming up in a couple of weeks time but they're not going to be ready for it because
they've either missed lessons or things just haven't gone to plan. what I've done is arranged
with a pupil for them to cancel that driving test at a very specific time, let's say something like
9 17 p.m. I've even arranged it so we've all been in the chat room together so there's me,
the pupil that wants to test and the pupil that has a test. The pupil that has a test cancels
it and immediately the one that wants a test is already on the booking system. They see the
test cancellation come up from the pupil that's cancelled theirs and they book it immediately.
Look on the system at different times of the day when other pupil aren't on. Now, the system opens
at 6am so if you go on first thing in the morning you'll often find that test cancellations have
come up. It's open until midnight and yeah, it's quite strange for a website to have opening times
but the driving test booking system is only open from 6am until midnight. So if you go
on quite late or quite early you will often find tests when other pupils are still in bed.
Check out these other videos on the screen now to watch full-length driving test routes full of
hints and tips on how to pass your driving test or check out this other video which shows you about
driving test booking scams. Thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon for more videos.