I have seen this happen multiple times when a student needed a solo endorsement to fly a multi engine airplane even though he was already certificated to do a check ride with a DPE. In fact the DPE has come out and made the instructor endorse the student perhaps we are missing something here. Can't someone choose to log or not log dual instruction? I know at ATP now that they started doing combine PPL/IRA check rides they have supervised solo and XC time. I am not sure how they log it but I think it's strictly a loop hole to obtain the license as you would never solo a multi engine aircraft and the FAA knows this.