How would the student fly a nose dragger, that he had never been signed off in? It is my understanding that a student must be signed off in every different model of plane.

One scenario - the student is the daugher of a CFI who owns a 152 and
she has flown it right seat since she was twelve (with the father in the
plane of course!) None of this time was logged but the student is
competent. The daughter wants to learn to fly, but "not from daddy" and
falls in love with a blue cub on the field. The instructor's cute too.

She takes lessons, gets all the way to the checkout, and the cub moves
on. The cub owner is a friend of dad and knows how the daughter flies
the 152 (in fact, she has flown them both in a 172) quite competently.

So, the instructor signs her off for the test and the FAA examiner takes
her for the checkride, which she passes.

Jose
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