First, night training, like instrument training, should be done
towards the end of the training cycle,

Of course everything should be done at the end of training but when
some students take 2 years to get through their private, its hard to
do everything the month before the checkride. Its just the reality of
the training env we are in. People plan to fly once a week but work,
weather, family get in the way and its not unusual for students to be
gone for over a month. Since night isn't tested in actual on the
checkride, CFIs tend to focus on the things the DE will be asking them
the next month.


-Robert