Heston wrote;
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you can't just say that the exam pass is all that's required because that's the standard.
Until EASA or whoever decide 'continuous assessment' a la CSE style is acceptable THAT IS PRECISELY ALL YOU CAN SAY!
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might just get it together on the day enough to fool an examiner into passing him or her
Somebody has to put them forward with completion certificates etc.
That's right. The exam pass is simply a snap shot of performance on the day. I've known it happen - student is over confident and brow beats the instructor into letting him take the test. Instructor says yes, thinking its OK because student will fail. But student flukes a pass. Instructor "Jeez I should never have let him take it".
The examiner is entitled to expect that a student turning up for test has indeed completed the course and is at a sufficient standard to pass in the opinion of the instructor who puts the student forward for test.