The trainingcom I posted earlier has chapter and verse for the requirements in the UK, and it's pretty black and white. The only way you can avoid doing one on the type rating test is if the conditions are not suitable. Even then they must be taught on the course.
Rod Wood at Cabair Elstree has a technique where he shuts the throttle in the flare, once he's convinced that a run on is going to work. I've tried it a couple of times and it seems to work.