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Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet

You earned a platinum medal in each one of the Gymkhana tutorials

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How to unlock the Teacher's Pet achievement in DiRT 3 - Definitive Guide

You unlock the Gymkhana Academy after getting 450 total points during the first season. There are a total of 5 tutorials:

****The number beside the tutorial name is at what point you can find the platinum walkthrough in the video.****

1: Smash (0:07)
This one is tricky. Follow the path in the video underneath, and you should eventually get it. If you are having trouble, try revisiting it once you get more similar with the game.

2: Air (1:02)
Probably the easiest of all the tutorials. Just line up with the ramp and make sure you have decent speed and take off straight. Spin you car around to head back the other direction and land 4 perfect jumps, to get 45000+ and get that platinum medal.

3: Drift (1:48)
Very frustrating, but not too bad once you get the hang of it. Again, feel free to come back to this if you are having trouble. The key is to go in a 8-figure instead of an oval. Another key is to score off ALL gates during every corner. Missing a single one will make you get gold instead. Average at least 4,000 a gate, and you should be able to get that platinum medal. If you find yourself having a few bad corners, try rewinding or restarting.

4: Spin (3:05)
Make sure to approach the zone at an angle, hit your brake, turn into the zone, and then apply handbrake and start spinning. As soon as you reach 3 triangles (10,000 points) start heading for the next zone. As long as you make no mistakes, you should be able to make it before the time runs out.

5: Donut (4:19)
The final challenge. Start off with the donut in front of you, and then do what feels right. As soon as you see those 3 triangles fill up, head towards the next closest donut opportunity. Don't waste time, just head for whatever is front of you. After a few tries, this one should come.

See the video below: (Open in YouTube to use time links in description)
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24 May 2011 22:43

25 Comments
i use to play racegames without any driving assistanc so in dirt 3 too. of corse its more difficult for e.g. this achivement. not sure if i can get it. i will try on an if its not work it is ok.
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By Laser Rock Show on 02 Jun 2011 14:17
Even with all the assists on this is ballbustingly difficult - even more annoying is the fact I keep *just* missing out.

Thanks for the video!
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By Hirsute Dave on 02 Jun 2011 15:15
yes it is really tough. even harder to take a close miss.
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By Laser Rock Show on 02 Jun 2011 16:48
arrgh i just scored 144,680 on the drip lap!!! good guide though
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By TheHotan on 07 Jun 2011 13:29
The drift is defo the hardest of them all. Took me a good few attempts to get it.
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By HorZa IX on 23 Jun 2011 16:26
Drift tutorial: Because this solution isn´t very helpful for me (what should i say: nice video but without any explanations very hard to "copy" it). So i found this youtube video, where the guy has left a comment for his solution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9Oe9xlWqs

After changing to manual transmission and using only the 2nd gear it´s was much easier to get the 145.000 points.
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By MQ1 Sky Warrior on 25 Jun 2011 20:59
I did this with only ABS on...! I was a little surprised to find it worth so little for TA value, so I hope that means it's a lot easier with all the other assists on. The donut one was very tricky indeed.
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By TickTockRob on 26 Jun 2011 21:10
2nd gear is the key!!! big ups to MQ1 Sky Warrior!!!!
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By grex9101 on 19 Jul 2011 02:09
MQ1 Sky Warrior is god!! Getting nowhere on automatic, switched to manual and stuck in 2nd and within 15 mins I had it done with a score of 153,000! Top tip
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By Hong Kong Fewie on 21 Jul 2011 20:45
These are definately not as easy as the guy in the video makes them out to be. I know he is not doing it on purpose, but you will pull your hair out with some of these challenges. What was Codemasters thinking when they came up with these achievements?
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By MizerisMoney on 25 Jul 2011 10:34
@MizerisMoney - I specifically say "This is the hardest tutorial achievement you will ever do". And I mentioned that it's hard enough that you may want to come back after you have some experience.
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By Maka91 on 25 Jul 2011 13:12
That drift challenge was killing me for over an hour before I switched to manual and stuck it in 2nd gear. Then I got it on my 3rd try.
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By dwu1983 on 09 Aug 2011 10:49
the drift challenge is so hard!! :@ i keep getting 144,800 but i carnt seem to go any faster!! GREAT GUIDE THO!
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By FnG x HiiTMaN on 16 Aug 2011 10:23
Drift Tutorial: Change the driver view to nose only and use the manual transmission trick. I found it a lot easier to maintain drifts in this driving view.
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By Ginn0rz on 16 Jun 2012 17:44
Yes thanks MAKA91 for this brilliant guide the drift challange took me about 20 minutes and i got 146,760 in the end.
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By DAN5KI97 on 23 Jul 2012 01:56
Thanks MAKA! Good video gave me lots of help, but still i almost twisted my controller to banana when i struggled with the drift challenge... at least 10 tries between 138,000 - 144,000 but finally 3,30 a clock at night i got this one!
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By Slarppa on 07 Aug 2012 00:36
I can't believe i was 10 points of platinum in the drift challenge, oh well i got it in the end.
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By MontyTP on 11 Feb 2014 07:24
Nevermind, barely made it on that 2: Air. Came out with 47,990 points.
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By Damnlag on 30 Mar 2014 16:15
Can we all just agree, fuck that Drift @ 145,000 points? It took me way to long to get 146,xxx...
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By ResinousHashish on 28 Nov 2015 22:21
Thanks for the guide, but thiese Challenges arern't worth doing for 20G. The game sucks ass. DiRT 2 tops this by miles.
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By Law Violation on 16 Dec 2017 15:34
I'll do it. I'm a completionist :)
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By Racer 6981 on 07 May 2020 19:16
Thanks for the guides! Made this really easy. Didn’t have trouble on any of them
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By Maelstorm95 on 29 Oct 2020 21:45
terrible guides smug author
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By on 24 Nov 2021 20:38
Just want to add. On the Smash challenge don't be afraid to experiment with different paths. I found it much easier to immediately go for the two donuts. If I didn't complete those quickly and cleanly I would simply restart right away. Get the most difficult part out of the way first!
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By Potent Skittles on 23 May 2012 13:07
2: Air (1:02)
Probably the easiest of all the tutorials. Just line up with the ramp and make sure you have decent speed and take off straight. Spin you car around to head back the other direction and land 4 perfect jumps, to get 45000+ and get that platinum medal.

How is it just 4 perfect jumps to get 45000+ when you only get 10,000 for a perfect jump? Wouldn't that come out to just 40,000? I keep running out of time before hitting it a 5th time.
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By Damnlag on 30 Mar 2014 16:11
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-Drift-
Just a quick tip when it comes to the drift part. Try some of the different views. It seems like it would make no difference, but I did much better with the in-car/bonnet view than I did with the behind the car view (the view I generally use).

Also, abuse those rewinds if you aren't already.

-Spin-
I also had another slightly different method for the spin challenge which seemed slightly easier for me.

Instead of transitioning between the two different spin zones, stick to one of them. Once you've maxed out the spin get the car just outside the pink square you're in, re-enter it and proceed to spin again.
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03 Jun 2011 18:48

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not a solution. Should have commented under other solution
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By GMN on 06 Jun 2011 11:02
Awesome, thanks Dragoon, in and out of the same zone work wonders ! +1 from me
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By DastardlyMutley on 28 Jun 2011 02:28
No worries buddy. Glad it helped you out. :)
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By VVV Dragoon on 28 Jun 2011 16:30
Cheers Dragon - the tip about the spin zones saved me a lot of frustration :)
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By The Geest on 01 Jul 2011 20:29
Even easier is if you start the spin on the corner of the box so that the rear of the car is whacking the inflatable post every time you spin. This means you get 4000 points or so every 360 but means you can just spin constantly on the spot never stopping. I got 153,000 points clearing Platinum by over 50K! :-)
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By Widget on 14 Jul 2011 10:02
Having a blonde moment but where can I find the gymkhana tutorials once I have completed the the first time round as I didnt get platinums on all of the?
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By Janarta Mean on 18 Jul 2011 17:19
In the first seasons final
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By young tugboatz on 04 Oct 2011 19:26
I did the spin in the same way as W1DGET. Piss easy ;)
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By The Fury I84I on 06 Feb 2012 15:11
W1DGET's solution is the way to do it and it deserves its own solution. I was able to get on the corner of a box and get two triangles per spin, my score was 201,630!
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By EldritchSS on 05 Aug 2012 08:26
Widget's tip is the best for spin.
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By on 08 Jan 2017 23:40
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This is just a tip for the Drift Tutorial. I used Maka's video to help me get this but I've found a way to really help control the speed and slide of your drift.

In his video I realized that for most of the time while he is sliding he is in 2nd gear. When I was first trying this challenge in Automatic transmission my driver would constantly gear up into 3rd which would cause my car to lose its speed and slide. I think my best Auto-Trans score was about 99,000. So what I did was go into the game options (Back in the main menu, not in the service area before a race) and switch my transmission from Automatic to Manual.

The first time I tried Manual I hit 130,000. If you're going to try this method out here's what I did. As soon as you get control of your car (after the timer counts down) switch into 2nd gear by hitting "X". Stay in 2nd for the rest of the race. I also changed some of my "Vehicle Setup" options to help me out. Here's what mine looked like

Gear Ratio - Short [1] 2 3 4 5 Long
Downforce - High 1 2 [3] 4 5 Low
Suspension - Stiff 1 2 [3] 4 5 Soft
Differential - Strong [1] 2 3 4 5 Loose
Brake Bias - Rear 1 2 [3] 4 5 Front

These probably aren't the best settings for the car but they worked for me. Just a suggestion for you to try out.

Also don't forget that you have 5 rewinds. If you miss one gate (that you feel you could have got with a bit of an adjustment) or come into a gate a little close just rewind and try it again. *TIP* rewind almost as far as you can so that you can re-gain your line going into the turn that you failed on. If you resume right before the turn there is a good chance that you wont be able to change the outcome. (It happened to me many times)

Hope this helps out anyone in the future. Leave your comments and if you feel the need to down vote please tell me why so I can improve my solutions. Thanks and good drifting!

**EDIT** I know that in Maka's solution he say's that you cant miss a single gate and I just have to say that's not entirely true. I think I missed 2 gates in my Platinum run and I managed to score 147,300. I'd say that 2 gates is probably the maximum that you can miss so don't worry if you miss one.

Paully05 gave me a little tip in the comments down below about car tuning that might work better for some other people. Check it out!
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08 Mar 2012 03:27

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damnit Im stuck keep getting 139 k

ahhh frustrating !
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By eeysi on 14 Dec 2015 18:16
The manual advice works well boosted mine by 20k first time, cheers
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By Earlydaze on 03 May 2012 20:49
Manual worked for me. Could get 147100 points after a few tries. Thank you!
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By Arctic Avenger2 on 27 Jun 2012 18:38
I actually cannot do this, the manual trick doesn't work for me. I don't know what it is, I'm not missing any and I've tried hundreds of times. Is there a certain angle you have to be hitting it at? or minimum score?
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By MTTLXNDR on 03 Oct 2012 16:03
I could be wrong, but I believe the more angle you have on your car as you drift through the gates gives you more points, up to a perfect 5k (I think 5k is the max). If I remember my run, I was getting 3k plus on all 8 gates. Remember that if you mess up just abuse the rewinds until you are happy with the outcome.
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By CRAWFORD696 on 03 Oct 2012 17:11
Thanks Paully05, I really only added my car's tuning setup just as a guide for what I used. People can feel free to change it however they seem fit. I will mention your comment in the guide though! Thanks for the advice!
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By CRAWFORD696 on 17 Jul 2013 02:59
Got it :D Thanks for the tips (manual gear + default car setup).
I must admit that Drift Tutorial was like a pain in ass ;)
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By cezzary22 on 27 Jul 2015 12:12
I thing the most important thing is not the speed but the drift angle.
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By PirS92 on 06 Nov 2015 07:22
Wow... I'm terrible at this game I guess. Everything done except 6 challenges, drift being one and I'm only averaging like 90k runs with setup
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By Sighris on 18 May 2017 07:20
Almost a perfect solution. 1 big thing I should add though. Your car setup seems off. I tried this with default setup and auto transmission, and was only getting about 100,000 points no matter what I did. I tried your setup with Manual transmission, and it shot up to about 130,000, and I could not get it any higher. So I tried Manual Transmission with the default car setup and on my second try I got the Platinum medal. And as for minimum points, 3,000 is nowhere near what you need. You need to be hitting AT LEAST 4,000 each time, with quite a few 5,000 point drifts. The main thing that contributes to your points in not really the angle, but the speed at which you go through the gate, hope this helps, as this is one frustrating Platinum medal to get. Good Luck. +1, great solution.
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By Paully05 on 10 Jul 2013 03:24
BOOM first try with the Manuel and this is after hours of trying with automatic. Simply genius thanks brother.
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By Harbringernight on 01 Apr 2016 08:11
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I used Maka's guide for everything except the drift one, I couldn't get the platinum in no way, was not able to get past 110k, so I started to play with the vehicle setup until I got the easiest drift, here is what I changed:

-Downforce: 5
-Suspension: 2
-Height from ground: 2
-Manual trasmission in game options as CRAWFORD696 said
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23 Dec 2016 14:34

This is the final event in season 1. There are 5 tutorials, 1 for each trick type. The platinum medal requirements for some of these are actually pretty tough and will require a decent amount of repetition and practice in order to master the event and get the platinum medals but with persistence they shouldn't cause you too much trouble except perhaps the drifting tutorial where the key is just to try and get solid scores (not necessarily the maximum of 5000), but score in all the gates. It's best to keep the trick steer assist turned on in the assist menu. It makes things a lot easier through these events so if the voice over man tells you that you're so awesome you don't even need it, just ignore him, he's an idiot.

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You unlock the Gymkhana Academy after getting 450 total points during the first season. There are a total of 5 tutorials. The number beside the tutorial name is at what point you can find the platinum walkthrough in the video.

1: Smash (0:07)
This one is tricky. Follow the path in the video underneath, and you should eventually get it. If you are having trouble, try revisiting it once you get more similar with the game.

2: Air (1:02)
Probably the easiest of all the tutorials. Just line up with the ramp and make sure you have decent speed and take off straight. Spin you car around to head back the other direction and land 4 perfect jumps, to get 45000+ and get that platinum medal.

3: Drift (1:48)
Very frustrating, but not too bad once you get the hang of it. Again, feel free to come back to this if you are having trouble. The key is to go in a 8-figure instead of an oval. Another key is to score off ALL gates during every corner. Missing a single one will make you get gold instead. Average at least 4,000 a gate, and you should be able to get that platinum medal. If you find yourself having a few bad corners, try rewinding or restarting.

4: Spin (3:05)
Make sure to approach the zone at an angle, hit your brake, turn into the zone, and then apply handbrake and start spinning. As soon as you reach 3 triangles (10,000 points) start heading for the next zone. As long as you make no mistakes, you should be able to make it before the time runs out.

5: Donut (4:19)
The final challenge. Start off with the donut in front of you, and then do what feels right. As soon as you see those 3 triangles fill up, head towards the next closest donut opportunity. Don't waste time, just head for whatever is front of you. After a few tries, this one should come.

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You unlock the Gymkhana Academy after getting 450 total points during the first season. There are a total of 5 tutorials. The number beside the tutorial name is at what point you can find the platinum walkthrough in the video.

1: Smash (0:07)
This one is tricky. Follow the path in the video underneath, and you should eventually get it. If you are having trouble, try revisiting it once you get more similar with the game.

2: Air (1:02)
Probably the easiest of all the tutorials. Just line up with the ramp and make sure you have decent speed and take off straight. Spin you car around to head back the other direction and land 4 perfect jumps, to get 45000+ and get that platinum medal.

3: Drift (1:48)
Very frustrating, but not too bad once you get the hang of it. Again, feel free to come back to this if you are having trouble. The key is to go in a 8-figure instead of an oval. Another key is to score off ALL gates during every corner. Missing a single one will make you get gold instead. Average at least 4,000 a gate, and you should be able to get that platinum medal. If you find yourself having a few bad corners, try rewinding or restarting.

4: Spin (3:05)
Make sure to approach the zone at an angle, hit your brake, turn into the zone, and then apply handbrake and start spinning. As soon as you reach 3 triangles (10,000 points) start heading for the next zone. As long as you make no mistakes, you should be able to make it before the time runs out.

5: Donut (4:19)
The final challenge. Start off with the donut in front of you, and then do what feels right. As soon as you see those 3 triangles fill up, head towards the next closest donut opportunity. Don't waste time, just head for whatever is front of you. After a few tries, this one should come.

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You must complete 5 training runs at the Gymkhana Academy with a Platinum Medal.

1.Training Partition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-gv-7nNjmQ

2.Jumping training:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW_u2nupZ3M

3. Drift training:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZbvQdVGBcE

4.Training Rotation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4SKfMT5T70

5.Training Ring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJn5BZQEfg
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14 Jan 2012 16:51

DIRT TOUR
Season 1 (first tetrahedron)
GYMKHANA ACADEMY (central triangle)

You must achieve platinum in five competitions:

1. SMASH TUTORIAL - Video hint

2. JUMP TUTORIAL - Video hint

3. DRIFT TUTORIAL - Video hint + in my opinion, the most difficult competition of these five, and personally the first video hint of the PC version helped me, and my settings before the race were as follows:
ASSISTS - all OFF
VEHICLE SETUP:
GEAR RATIO - average
DOWNFORCE - LOW max
SUSPENSION - STIFF min
RIDE HEIGHT - LOW min
DIFFERENTIAL - average
BRAKE BIAS - average

4. SPIN TUTORIAL - Video hint

5. DONUT TUTORIAL - Video hint
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