Well, not that this is the case, but if you attend a Part 141 Flight School with full examining authority there is a loop hole. The 141 flight program only files one 8710 with the FAA and that is only filed once the pilot has passed the required checkride. So a student could fail his commercial ride 5 times with the check examiner at the school, but when the paper work is filed with the FAA it will show he passed it on his first attempt(one 8710=one attempt). The only way to catch this is to get flight records from the school or review the entire logbook and catch the unsats.