My friend was two points short

I woke up early today. My friend/classmate in a culinary arts school and I were supposed to submit resumes to various hotels and restaurants. When i arrived at his place, I thought we were just gonna stay there for a while but i was wrong. Instead of submitting resumes, we ended up rehearsing for his interview. He had an interview at 2:00 pm in Mandarin Hotel. We were role- playing. I acted as if I were the interviewer. He wanted the interview to be perfect. I asked some questions that would probably come out of the interviewer's mouth. He was finally relieved since he was able to formulate what he was going to say during the interview. He also asked me to give him some pointers in English because he is not that good in grammar and parts of speech. I was able to share with him what I know but i doubted that he can retain in his mind all the information that I've told him. Then came 1:00 pm. We hurried and waited for a taxi. We arrived at Mandarin Hotel around 1:30. I was not permitted to enter the hotel so I waited for him outside. It was almost 4:00 pm when he came out and relayed what happened. He was two points short. He did not pass the written exam. He told me that he had a hard time answering the math and analogy test. I was laughing at him since we spent most of the time getting prepared for the interview but he was not able to get to the interview part.