[Truth29]

"You don?t seriously think those two things are equivalent do you? LOL"

es. If roughly 2/3rds of the candidates passed the test each time she took it, and it took her five times to pass, in what percentage of the population does that place her?

[TigersEye]

I don't know but there is no reasonable comparison with taking seven years to complete a four year degree. One is flunking the same test four times the other is taking longer than the minimum to complete a given task.

There are numerous reasons other than failure for that. For thousands of college students it is taking time to make some money that stretches the full course time out.