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That's somewhat confusing, the student is just one hour short of the time usual for grading but has been coming for a month longer?
Exactly why I disagreed with testing him. I felt that he hasn't been a serious student. We have had white belts who have over 20 hours of training by 3 months . The most you can get is 36 hours per testing and testing is every 3 months. This kid missed almost a whole month of training. My instructor's philosophy is to be lenient when they are beginners 9-7 gup . Then begin holding the students more accountable, but he let a student test for 4th gup when he had 13 hours in 8 months. The only exception is that this student has to make 18 hours by 5 months, but all these exceptions, it almost as if we have these standards as a guide and not as law. Sometimes I'm left scratching my head in confusion as to why decisions are made the way they are, at the end of the day like some people have said, he may have his own agenda. I just have no idea what it is. I just remember I had 43 hours logged in for my 4th- 3rd gup test in 3 months. At that point the max was 48 hours because we trained 4 days a week instead of 3 like we do now. It's really cruddy when kids are testing with like 13 hours for these intermediate ranks, and I had almost three times that.