"You've Failed!!"

[cardinal95]

Are these students coming from places other than your own school? It seems strange to allow someone to test if they aren't likely to pass.

I do like your interview format. It's professional and respectful, which is what both the student and the art deserve.

I also find it odd that student would test if they aren't ready. We wait until the student looks ready to offer them testing time. If the student is over eager asking us to "sign off" on something and they aren't ready we simply say what they need to work on and give them a rough deadline of when they can try testing again. More of a "I will sign off on this after you've worked on x, y and z. We can try again in two weeks" type of thing. But these scenarios are rarer (in my experience).