Morning chaps does anyone no if you can get a home study course for ADR thanks
You can buy the ADR handbook, that’s got everything you’ll need to know.
novadata.co.uk/det/5139/ADR-Driver-Handbook/
You’ll have to sit the tests at an approved training centre and they are all run by people who do the training so its unlikely they will let you just sit the tests without using them for the training.
U dont need to “study”, when u start training they will more than likely give u a booklet with the important information included. There isnt that much u need to know to pass the test believe me it is a piece of pish, pay attention to whats been said and read the booklet for an hr or so in the evening and you will be good to go.
What he said… It’s really is easy.
Although we do ADR training we dont actually need or use it for our work, so we pretty much forget it all as soon as we leave the training place as we aren’t using it everyday. 5 years down the line for the refresher, we have a day training and a read of the book then do the test and all of us passed with over 90%
Got another refresher next year, so I’ll have another day training and read the book again and hope for the best.
Our last refresher course, had a guy from another company who was thick as a plank. He could barely spell his name, and pretty much the entire day training was spent getting him to just understand why he was there. We still passed the test with flying colours though. It’s all common sense at the end of the day.
Is the refresher training really that easy? Aren’t they the same tests as the initial ones?
My brain turned to mush the week I did mine. I felt that I was being told one thing in the morning and something completely contradictory in the afternoon.
I don’t think I had the best trainer on the planet.
Still passed first time though, although when I walked out of the exams, I was convinced I hadn’t.
NOVE:
My brain turned to mush the week I did mine. I felt that I was being told one thing in the morning and something completely contradictory in the afternoon.Still passed first time though, although when I walked out of the exams, I was convinced I hadn’t.
+1, I did 10/11 papers on the day if I remember right:eek:
Had a very good instructor though, main problem for me was trying to stay awake:lol:
NOVE:
Is the refresher training really that easy? Aren’t they the same tests as the initial ones?My brain turned to mush the week I did mine. I felt that I was being told one thing in the morning and something completely contradictory in the afternoon.
I don’t think I had the best trainer on the planet.
Still passed first time though, although when I walked out of the exams, I was convinced I hadn’t.
Tests are the same yeah, but they aren’t hard. I reckon most could pass them without the training. The only bits to catch you out are some of the abbreviations and the different class numbers… Remember those and the rest is simple common sense. I seem to recall the questions being multiple choice too, although I may be mistaken.
So much changes over 5 years that most are advised to do the full ADR and not the intense refresher
Full ADR can get 21 hours for DCPC but refresher can only get 7 hours
ADR with DCPC costs a little more than the basic ADR courses
bjd:
Morning chaps does anyone no if you can get a home study course for ADR thanks
Hi bjd,
I’ve never heard of a home study course for ADR, but in any case… it’s an attendance course, so you have to be there in person for all lessons in your chosen ADR subject areas.
My advice is that you DON’T study anything beforehand, because if you misunderstand something it will be quite difficult to correct it. It’s best to learn ADR ‘live’ and interactive cos you’ll have the correct info at the first time of asking, rather than trying to un-learn and re-learn if you get misunderstand during home-study.
When you taken an ADR course, the provider MUST give you some kind of textbook that goes with the course.
The other answers you’ve had regarding listening carefully etc are all very good advice, but I’d add that it’s also a good idea to ask the instructor for a bit more explanation if you don’t understand something first time around.
If you shrink back from asking sensible questions, then you still won’t know the answer on exam day. 
109LWB:
You can buy the ADR handbook, that’s got everything you’ll need to know.
Hi 109LWB,
First off, I’m NOT knocking Novadata or NDGTC in any way whatsoever, but…
IMHO, the NDGTC handbook has a depth of information that far exceeds what a driver needs to pass the ADR exams.
Another point I’d make is that if the OP takes his ADR course at a non-NDGTC member, the textbook that goes with that course might well be quite different.
109LWB:
You’ll have to sit the tests at an approved training centre and they are all run by people who do the training so its unlikely they will let you just sit the tests without using them for the training.
This is correct because there’s no option to just turn up for exams.
The reason for this is that an ADR course is an attendance course, where attendance is required in person for all parts of the course that the candidate chooses to take. The candidate can then only take exams for the parts of the course that they have attended.