Interviewing pilots, who are typically rank amateurs, is a lot easier than say trying to interview experienced high-end sales professionals or executives who already know how to lie for a living.
This ^^^
The fact you can steer a multimillion dollar craft through space at night may be pure unadulterated magic but it won’t help if you can’t talk your way out of a wet paper bag.
Now hear this:
- Have you ever failed an evaluation?
- Have you ever failed a checkride ?
Are two different questions.
Read the question and answer it.
If a school has self examining authority then the EOC will lead to issuance of a certificate after review.
So for all intends and purposes this is a checkride.
If the school does not have self examining authority then the EOC aid not a checkride as an independent examiner will make the final determination.
So a failed EOC would not constitute a failed checkride but it would constitute a failed evaluation.