Spunk what tosh you talk ! It now means that as an examiner ( in a small company) I can check the progress of a student and how well my instructors are instructing. On the old system we were allowed to do 10% of the tuition which meant checking a student before 1 st solo and before 1st solo xc nav exercise plus anything else such as EOL's to the ground which are sadly not part of the syllabus and you will find most junior instructors are incapable of doing.
We are obviously not allowed to examine the student on his skills test if we have given more than this so what is the problem ?