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Exhibit 4.4

 

SLM PRIVATE CREDIT STUDENT LOAN TRUST 2006-C

INDENTURE

between

SLM PRIVATE CREDIT STUDENT LOAN TRUST 2006-C,

as Issuer

CHASE BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

not in its individual capacity

but solely as Trustee

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK,

not in its individual capacity but

solely as Indenture Trustee

Dated as of September 1, 2006

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
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	ARTICLE I
	 	 	 	 
	DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 1.01.
	 	Definitions and Usage	 	 	2	 
	Section 1.02.
	 	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE II
	 	 	 	 
	THE NOTES
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.01.
	 	Form	 	 	3	 
	Section 2.02.
	 	Execution, Authentication and Delivery	 	 	3	 
	Section 2.03.
	 	Temporary Notes	 	 	4	 
	Section 2.04.
	 	Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange	 	 	4	 
	Section 2.05.
	 	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes	 	 	5	 
	Section 2.06.
	 	Persons Deemed Owner	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.07.
	 	Payment of Principal and Interest; Note Interest Shortfall	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.08.
	 	Cancellation	 	 	7	 
	Section 2.09.
	 	Release of Collateral	 	 	7	 
	Section 2.10.
	 	Book-Entry Notes	 	 	7	 
	Section 2.11.
	 	Notices to Clearing Agency	 	 	8	 
	Section 2.12.
	 	Definitive Notes	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE III
	 	 	 	 
	COVENANTS
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.01.
	 	Payment to Noteholders	 	 	9	 
	Section 3.02.
	 	Maintenance of Office or Agency	 	 	10	 
	Section 3.03.
	 	Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust	 	 	10	 
	Section 3.04.
	 	Existence	 	 	11	 
	Section 3.05.
	 	Protection of Indenture Trust Estate	 	 	12	 
	Section 3.06.
	 	Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate	 	 	12	 
	Section 3.07.
	 	Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Trust Student Loans	 	 	12	 
	Section 3.08.
	 	Negative Covenants	 	 	15	 
	Section 3.09.
	 	Annual Statement as to Compliance	 	 	16	 
	Section 3.10.
	 	Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms	 	 	16	 
	Section 3.11.
	 	Successor or Transferee	 	 	17	 
	Section 3.12.
	 	No Other Business	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.13.
	 	No Borrowing	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.14.
	 	Obligations of Servicer and Administrator	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.15.
	 	Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.16.
	 	Capital Expenditures	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.17.
	 	Restricted Payments	 	 	18	 
	Section 3.18.
	 	Notice of Events of Default	 	 	19	 
	Section 3.19.
	 	Further Instruments and Acts	 	 	19	 

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	Section 3.20.
	 	Representations and Warranties	 	 	19	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IV
	 	 	 	 
	SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 4.01.
	 	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	 	 	19	 
	Section 4.02.
	 	Application of Trust Money	 	 	20	 
	Section 4.03.
	 	Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent	 	 	20	 
	Section 4.04.
	 	Auction of Trust Student Loans	 	 	21	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE V
	 	 	 	 
	REMEDIES
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.01.
	 	Events of Default	 	 	22	 
	Section 5.02.
	 	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.03.
	 	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee	 	 	23	 
	Section 5.04.
	 	Remedies; Priorities	 	 	25	 
	Section 5.05.
	 	Optional Preservation of the Trust Student Loans	 	 	28	 
	Section 5.06.
	 	Limitation of Suits	 	 	28	 
	Section 5.07.
	 	Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest	 	 	29	 
	Section 5.08.
	 	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	 	 	29	 
	Section 5.09.
	 	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	 	 	29	 
	Section 5.10.
	 	Delay or Omission Not a Waiver	 	 	29	 
	Section 5.11.
	 	Control by Noteholders	 	 	29	 
	Section 5.12.
	 	Waiver of Past Defaults	 	 	30	 
	Section 5.13.
	 	Undertaking for Costs	 	 	30	 
	Section 5.14.
	 	Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws	 	 	30	 
	Section 5.15.
	 	Action on Notes	 	 	31	 
	Section 5.16.
	 	Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations	 	 	31	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VI
	 	 	 	 
	THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.01.
	 	Duties of Indenture Trustee	 	 	31	 
	Section 6.02.
	 	Rights of Indenture Trustee	 	 	33	 
	Section 6.03.
	 	Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.04.
	 	Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.05.
	 	Notice of Defaults	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.06.
	 	Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.07.
	 	Compensation and Indemnity	 	 	34	 
	Section 6.08.
	 	Replacement of Indenture Trustee	 	 	35	 
	Section 6.09.
	 	Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger	 	 	36	 
	Section 6.10.
	 	Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee	 	 	36	 
	Section 6.11.
	 	Eligibility; Disqualification	 	 	37	 
	Section 6.12.
	 	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer	 	 	38	 

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	ARTICLE VII
	 	 	 	 
	NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.01.
	 	Issuer to Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders	 	 	39	 
	Section 7.02.
	 	Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders	 	 	39	 
	Section 7.03.
	 	Reports by Issuer	 	 	40	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VIII
	 	 	 	 
	ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.01.
	 	Collection of Money	 	 	40	 
	Section 8.02.
	 	Trust Accounts	 	 	41	 
	Section 8.03.
	 	General Provisions Regarding Accounts	 	 	41	 
	Section 8.04.
	 	Release of Indenture Trust Estate	 	 	42	 
	Section 8.05.
	 	Opinion of Counsel	 	 	42	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IX
	 	 	 	 
	SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.01.
	 	Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders	 	 	43	 
	Section 9.02.
	 	Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders	 	 	44	 
	Section 9.03.
	 	Execution of Supplemental Indentures	 	 	45	 
	Section 9.04.
	 	Effect of Supplemental Indenture	 	 	45	 
	Section 9.05.
	 	Conformity with Trust Indenture Act	 	 	46	 
	Section 9.06.
	 	Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures	 	 	46	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE X
	 	 	 	 
	REDEMPTION OF NOTES
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 10.01.
	 	Redemption	 	 	46	 
	Section 10.02.
	 	Form of Redemption Notice	 	 	46	 
	Section 10.03.
	 	Notes Payable on Redemption Date	 	 	47	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE XI
	 	 	 	 
	MISCELLANEOUS
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.01.
	 	Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc	 	 	47	 
	Section 11.02.
	 	Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee	 	 	49	 
	Section 11.03.
	 	Acts of Noteholders	 	 	49	 
	Section 11.04.
	 	Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies	 	 	50	 
	Section 11.05.
	 	Notices to Noteholders; Waiver	 	 	51	 
	Section 11.06.
	 	Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions	 	 	51	 
	Section 11.07.
	 	Conflict with Trust Indenture Act	 	 	51	 
	Section 11.08.
	 	Effect of Headings and Table of Contents	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.09.
	 	Successors and Assigns	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.10.
	 	Separability	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.11.
	 	Benefits of Indenture	 	 	52	 

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	Section 11.12.
	 	Legal Holidays	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.13.
	 	GOVERNING LAW	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.14.
	 	Counterparts	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.15.
	 	Recording of Indenture	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.16.
	 	Trust Obligations	 	 	52	 
	Section 11.17.
	 	No Petition	 	 	53	 
	Section 11.18.
	 	Inspection	 	 	53	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE XII
	 	 	 	 
	COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION AB
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 12.01.
	 	Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness	 	 	53	 

APPENDICES, SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS

	 	 	 
	APPENDIX A

	 	Definitions and Usage
	 
	 	 
	SCHEDULE A

	 	Schedule of Trust Student Loans
	SCHEDULE B

	 	Location of Trust Student Loan Files
	 
	 	 
	EXHIBIT A

	 	Forms of Notes
	EXHIBIT B

	 	Form of Note Depository Agreement
	EXHIBIT C

	 	Servicing Criteria To Be Addressed In Assessment of Compliance

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INDENTURE

     This INDENTURE, dated as of September 1, 2006, is between SLM PRIVATE CREDIT STUDENT LOAN
TRUST 2006-C, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuer”), and CHASE BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
a national banking association, as trustee and not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee
(the “Trustee”) and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee and not in its
individual capacity but solely as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”).

     Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable
benefit of the holders of the Issuer’s Student Loan-Backed Notes (the “Notes”):

GRANTING CLAUSE

     The Issuer, and with respect to the Trust Student Loans, the Trustee hereby Grant to the
Indenture Trustee, as trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders, effective as of the Closing Date
all of their right, title and interest in and to the following:

     (a) the Trust Student Loans, and all obligations of the Obligors thereunder including all
moneys accrued and paid thereunder on or after the applicable Cutoff Date;

     (b) the Servicing Agreement, including the right of the Issuer to cause the Servicer to
purchase Trust Student Loans from the Issuer under circumstances described therein;

     (c) the Sale Agreement, including the right of the Issuer to cause the Depositor to repurchase
Trust Student Loans from the Issuer under the circumstances described therein and including the
rights of the Depositor under the Sale Agreements;

     (d) the Purchase Agreements, to the extent that the rights of the Depositor thereunder have
been assigned to the Issuer pursuant to the Sale Agreement, including the right of the Depositor to
cause each Seller to repurchase Trust Student Loans from the Depositor under circumstances
described therein;

     (e) the Administration Agreement;

     (f) the Swap Agreements;

     (g) the Trust Accounts and all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts,
including the Collection Account Initial Deposit, the Reserve Account Initial Deposit, the Cash
Capitalization Account Initial Deposit and the Borrower Benefit Account Initial Deposit, if any,
and all investments and proceeds thereof (including all income thereon); and

     (h) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or
all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature
whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion,
voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts
receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, general intangibles, deposit
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any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other
property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing (collectively, the “Collateral”).

     The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of principal of and interest on,
and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice,
priority or distinction, and to secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as
provided in this Indenture.

     The Indenture Trustee, as indenture trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, acknowledges such
Grant, accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture
and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture to the best of its ability to the end
that the interests of the Noteholders may be adequately and effectively protected.

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND USAGE

     Section 1.01. Definitions and Usage. Except as otherwise specified herein or as the
context may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein are defined
in Appendix A-1 hereto, which also contains rules as to usage that shall be applicable herein.

     Section 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this
Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made
a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following
meanings:

     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

     “indenture securities” means the Notes.

     “indenture security holder” means a Noteholder.

     “indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

     “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Indenture Trustee.

     “obligor” on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any other obligor on the indenture
securities.

     All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA
reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have the meaning assigned to them by
such definitions.

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ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

     Section 2.01. Form. The Notes, together with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, shall be in substantially the forms set forth in Exhibit A, with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this
Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing
the Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may
be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.

     The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by
any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the
officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

     The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A are part of the terms of this Indenture.

     Each class of Notes will be represented by interests in a book-entry note certificate
deposited on the Closing Date with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as custodian for DTC (the
“DTC Custodian”), and registered in the name of Cede & Co. as initial nominee for DTC.

     Section 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall be executed on
behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized
Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.

     Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time Authorized
Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them
have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Notes.

     The Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuer Order authenticate and deliver Notes for original
issue in an aggregate principal amount of $1,199,439,000, of which $157,000,000 shall be
denominated Class A-1 Notes, $268,000,000 shall be denominated Class A-2 Notes, $110,000,000 shall
be denominated Class A-3 Notes, $215,000,000 shall be denominated Class A-4 Notes, $356,017,000
shall be denominated Class A-5 Notes, $39,177,000 shall be denominated Class B Notes and
$54,245,000 shall be denominated Class C Notes.

     Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be issuable as
registered notes in minimum denominations of $100,000 and additional increments of $1,000.

     No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for
any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the
form provided for herein executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the
only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

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     Section 2.03. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes, the
Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or
otherwise produced, of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with
such variations not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture determined to be appropriate by
the Authorized Officer of the Issuer executing the temporary Notes, as evidenced by his or her
execution of such temporary Notes.

     If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer will cause Definitive Notes to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be
exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of
the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, without charge to the Noteholder. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute and the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
Definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all
respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.

     Section 2.04. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The Issuer shall
cause to be kept a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations
as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of
transfers of Notes. The Indenture Trustee shall be “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering
Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the
Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume
the duties of Note Registrar.

     If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, the
Issuer shall give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note
Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register, and the
Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to
obtain copies thereof, and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate
executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and
addresses of the Noteholders and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.

     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Issuer
to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, if the requirements of Section 8-401(1) of the UCC
are met, the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder
shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees,
one or more new Notes in any authorized denominations and a like aggregate principal amount.

     At the option of the Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes in any authorized
denominations and a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall
execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the
Indenture Trustee, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

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     All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid
obligation of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

     Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly
endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, duly executed by the Noteholder thereof or such Noteholder’s attorney, and duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution”
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature
guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act.

     No service charge shall be made to a Noteholder for any registration of transfer or exchange
of Notes, but the Indenture Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.03 or 9.06 not involving any
transfer.

     The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to
make and the Note Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Notes selected for
redemption or of any Note for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with
respect to the Note.

     Any transfer or assignment of any Note or any interest in any Note that is not effected
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture (including, without limitation, this Section 2.04),
such as a transfer or assignment not reflected on the Note Register, shall be null and void and
shall not be taken into account by, or be binding upon, the Indenture Trustee or any other party.

     Section 2.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any mutilated Note
is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by each of them to
hold the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer,
the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall
execute and upon its request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note;
provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a
mutilated Note, shall have become or within 15 days shall be due and payable, or shall have been
called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed,
lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date without surrender thereof.
If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note
pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a bona fide purchaser of the original Note in
lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from
the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note

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from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person,
except a bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity
provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.

     Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the Issuer may require the
payment by the Noteholder thereof of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and
expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.

     Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement of any mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of
the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

     The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all
other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Notes.

     Section 2.06. Persons Deemed Owner. Prior to due presentment for registration of
transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of
determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of,
interest, if any, on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be
overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

     Section 2.07. Payment of Principal and Interest; Note Interest Shortfall. (a) The
Notes shall accrue interest as provided in the forms of Notes set forth in Exhibit A and such
interest shall be payable on each applicable Distribution Date as specified therein, subject to
Section 3.01. Any installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note which is
punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Distribution Date shall be
paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the
applicable Record Date by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it
appears on the Note Register on such Record Date, except that, unless Definitive Notes have been
issued pursuant to Section 2.12, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of the applicable Clearing Agency for the Notes (initially, such nominee to be Cede &
Co.), payment shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account
designated by such nominee and except for the final installment of principal payable with respect
to such Note on a Distribution Date or on the Note Final Maturity Date for such Note which shall be
payable as provided below. The funds represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall be
held in accordance with Section 3.03.

     (b) The principal amount of each class of Notes shall be payable in installments on each
Distribution Date as provided in the forms of such note set forth in Exhibit A. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of each class of the Notes shall be due and

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payable, if not previously paid, on the Note Final Maturity Date for such class of Notes and
on the date on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing if the Indenture
Trustee or the Noteholders of the Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Controlling Notes have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the
manner provided in Section 5.02. All principal payments on the Notes shall be made pro rata to the
Class of Noteholders entitled thereto. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name
a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Distribution Date on
which the Issuer expects that the final installment of principal of and interest on such Note will
be paid. Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such final Distribution
Date and shall specify that such final installment will be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and surrendered
for payment of such installment. Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed
to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.02.

     (c) If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest at the applicable Note Rate on the Notes,
the Issuer shall pay the resulting Note Interest Shortfall on the following Distribution Date as
provided in the Administration Agreement.

     Section 2.08. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of
transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture
Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture
Trustee. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No
Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this
Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes may be held or
disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy
as in effect at the time, unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order that they be returned
to it and so long as such Issuer Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of
by the Indenture Trustee.

     Section 2.09. Release of Collateral. Subject to Section 11.01 and the terms of the
Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture only
upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer, an Opinion
of Counsel of the Issuer and Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA §§ 314(c) and
314(d)(1) or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the
TIA does not require any such Independent Certificates.

     Section 2.10. Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original issuance, will be issued in
the form of typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository
Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, by or on behalf of the Issuer. Such Notes shall
initially be registered on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial
Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner shall receive a Definitive Note (as defined below) representing
such Note Owner’s interest in such Note, except as provided in Section 2.12. Unless and until
definitive, fully registered Notes (the “Definitive Notes”) have been issued to Note Owners
pursuant to Section 2.12:

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     (i) the provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;

     (ii) the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee, and their respective directors,
officers, employees and agents, may deal with the applicable Clearing Agency for all
purposes (including the payment of principal of and interest and other amounts on the Notes)
as the authorized representative of the Note Owners;

     (iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with any other
provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section shall control;

     (iv) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the applicable Clearing
Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Note
Owners and the applicable Clearing Agency and/or the applicable Clearing Agency Participants
pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement; and unless and until Definitive Notes are issued
pursuant to Section 2.12, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among
the applicable Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal
of and interest and other amounts on the Notes to such applicable Clearing Agency
Participants;

     (v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based upon
instructions or directions of Noteholders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the applicable Clearing Agency shall be deemed to represent
such percentage only to the extent that it has received instructions to such effect from
Note Owners and/or applicable Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing,
respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has
delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee; and

     (vi) upon acquisition or transfer of a beneficial interest in any Book-Entry Note by,
for or with the assets of, a Benefit Plan, such Note Owner shall be deemed to have
represented that such acquisition or purchase will not constitute or otherwise result in:
(i) in the case of a Benefit Plan subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, a
non-exempt prohibited transaction in violation of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code which is not covered by a class or other applicable exemption and (ii) in the case
of a Benefit Plan subject to a substantially similar federal, state, local or foreign law, a
non-exempt violation of such substantially similar law. Any transfer found to have been
made in violation of such deemed representation shall be null and void and of no effect.

     Section 2.11. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other communication to
the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been
issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.12, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices
and communications specified herein to be given to Noteholders to the applicable Clearing Agency.

     Section 2.12. Definitive Notes. If (i) the Administrator advises the Indenture
Trustee in writing that a Clearing Agency (a) is closed for business for a continuous period of 14
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business permanently (or does so and no alternative clearing system acceptable to the
Indenture Trustee is then available), or (c) at any time, is unwilling or unable to continue as, or
ceases to be, a clearing agency registered under all applicable laws, and a successor clearing
agency which is registered as a clearing agency under all applicable laws is not appointed by the
Administrator within 90 days of such event, (ii) the Administrator at its option advises the
Indenture Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through such
Clearing Agency, or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, a Servicer Default or an
Administrator Default, Note Owners representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the applicable Notes advise the applicable Clearing Agency
(which shall then notify the Indenture Trustee) in writing that the continuation of a book-entry
system through such Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of such Note Owners, then
the Indenture Trustee shall cause the Clearing Agency to notify all Note Owners cleared through
such Clearing Agency, of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of Definitive
Notes to Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the
typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by a Clearing Agency, accompanied by
registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of such Clearing Agency, which shall
include, without limitation, the identity and payment instructions for all Noteholders of the
applicable Notes. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be liable
for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected
in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture Trustee
shall recognize the holders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.

     Upon acquisition or transfer of a Definitive Note by, for or with the assets of, a Benefit
Plan, such Note Owner shall be deemed to have represented that such acquisition or purchase will
not constitute or otherwise result in: (i) in the case of a Benefit Plan subject to Title I of
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, a non-exempt prohibited transaction in violation of Section 406
of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code which is not covered by a class or other applicable exemption
and, (ii) in the case of a Benefit Plan subject to a substantially similar law, a non-exempt
violation of such substantially similar law. Any transfer found to have been made in violation of
such deemed representation shall be null and void and of no effect.

     Section 2.13 CUSIP Numbers. The Issuer in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers
(if then generally in use), and, if so, the Indenture Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices
of redemption as a convenience to Noteholders; provided that any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as
contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any
defect in or omission of such numbers. The Issuer will promptly notify the Indenture Trustee in
writing of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.

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ARTICLE III

COVENANTS

     Section 3.01. Payment to Noteholders. The Issuer shall duly and punctually pay the
principal and interest, if any, with respect to the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes
and this Indenture. Without limiting the foregoing, the Issuer shall cause to be distributed to
Noteholders, in accordance with the Administration Agreement, that portion of the amounts on
deposit in the Trust Accounts on a Distribution Date (other than any Eligible Investments deposited
therein that will mature on the Business Day preceding a subsequent Distribution Date) which the
Noteholders are entitled to receive pursuant to Sections 2.07 and 2.08 of the Administration
Agreement. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder
of interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such
Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture.

     Section 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer shall maintain in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and in Luxembourg, so long as any of the Notes are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of such exchange so require, or in such other
jurisdiction if any of the Notes are listed on another stock exchange of international standing and
the rules of such other exchange so require, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in
respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the
Indenture Trustee (and, with respect to Luxembourg matters, such Affiliate of the Indenture Trustee
as the Indenture Trustee shall designate) to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The
Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change
in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain
any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof,
such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the
Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices
and demands.

     Section 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. As provided in Sections 8.02(a)
and (b), all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from
amounts distributed from the Collection Account or any other Trust Account pursuant to Sections
2.07, 2.08 and 2.08A of the Administration Agreement shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the
Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so distributed from the Collection
Account for payments to Noteholders shall be paid over to the Issuer except as provided in this
Section.

     On or before the Business Day next preceding each Distribution Date and Redemption Date, the
Issuer shall distribute or cause to be distributed to the Indenture Trustee (or any other Paying
Agent) an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due under the Notes, such sum
to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying Agent is
the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee in writing of its action or
failure so to act.

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     The Issuer shall cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee to execute and
deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject
to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:

     (i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons
as herein provided;

     (ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer of which it has
actual knowledge (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment required
to be made with respect to the Notes;

     (iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request
of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust
by such Paying Agent;

     (iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee
all sums held by it in trust for the payments due under the Notes if at any time it ceases
to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment;
and

     (v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the withholding from any
payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and
with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith.

     The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent;
and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such money.

     Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture
Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and
remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged
from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Request or if the Issuer has been terminated to
the Depositor upon its written request; and the Noteholder thereof shall thereafter, as an
unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of
the amounts so paid to the Issuer), and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent
with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the
Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall at
the expense and direction of the Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the
English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The City
of New York and in Luxembourg, so long as any of the Notes

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are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of such stock exchange so require,
or in such other jurisdiction if any of the Notes are listed on another stock exchange of
international standing and the rules of such other exchange so require, notice that such money
remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days
from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall also adopt and employ, at the expense of the
Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including mailing notice of
such repayment to Noteholders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for
redemption or whose right to or interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable
from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for
each such Noteholder).

     Section 3.04. Existence. The Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights
and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or
any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or of the
United States of America, in which case the Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights
and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall obtain and preserve its
qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be
necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral
and each other instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Trust Estate.

     Section 3.05. Protection of Indenture Trust Estate. The Issuer will from time to time
execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto, all such financing statements and
continuation statements and will take such other action necessary or advisable to:

     (i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority thereof) of
this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;

     (ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any grant made or to be made
by this Indenture;

     (iii) enforce any of the Collateral; or

     (iv) preserve and defend title to the Indenture Trust Estate and the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Indenture Trust Estate against the claims of
all persons and parties.

     The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to execute
any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument required to be executed
pursuant to this Section.

     Section 3.06. Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate. (a) On the Closing Date, the
Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording and filing of
this Indenture as is necessary to perfect and make effective the lien and security interest of this
Indenture and reciting the details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
no such action is necessary to make such lien and security interest effective.

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     (b) On or before December 31 in each calendar year, beginning in 2006, the Issuer shall
furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and
refiling of this Indenture and any indentures supplemental hereto as is necessary to maintain the
lien and security interest created by this Indenture and relating the details of such action or
stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such lien and
security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording, filing and refiling
of this Indenture and any indentures supplemental hereto that will, in the opinion of such counsel,
be required to maintain the lien and security interest of this Indenture until December 31 in the
following calendar year.

     Section 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Trust Student Loans. (a) The
Issuer will not take any action and will use its best efforts not to permit any action to be taken
by others that would release any Person from any of such Person’s material covenants or obligations
under any instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Trust Estate or that would result in
the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or
effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as expressly provided in this Indenture,
any other Basic Document or such other instrument or agreement.

     (b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its duties under
this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee
in an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer;
provided, however, the Issuer shall not be liable for any acts of Persons with whom
the Issuer has contracted with reasonable care. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the
Servicer and the Administrator to assist the Issuer in performing its duties under this Indenture.
The Issuer shall give written notice to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency of any such
contract with any other Person.

     (c) The Issuer shall punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements
contained in this Indenture, the other Basic Documents and the instruments and agreements included
in the Indenture Trust Estate, including filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements
and continuation statements prepared by the Issuer and required to be filed by the terms of this
Indenture and the Administration Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided
for herein and therein. Except as otherwise expressly provided therein, the Issuer shall not
waive, amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Basic Document or any provision thereof without
the written consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of at least a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

     (d) If an Authorized Officer of the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a
Servicer Default or an Administrator Default under the Servicing Agreement or the Administration
Agreement, respectively, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating
Agencies thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Issuer is taking with
respect to such default. If a Servicer Default shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to
perform any of its duties or obligations under the Servicing Agreement, or an Administrator Default
shall arise from the failure of the Administrator to perform any of its duties or obligations under
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Trust Student Loans, the Issuer shall take all reasonable steps available to it to enforce its
rights under the Basic Documents in respect of such failure.

     (e) As promptly as possible after the giving of notice of termination to the Servicer of the
Servicer’s rights and powers, pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Servicing Agreement, or to the
Administrator of the Administrator’s rights and powers, pursuant to Section 5.01 of the
Administration Agreement, the Issuer shall appoint a successor servicer (the “Successor Servicer”)
or a successor administrator (the “Successor Administrator”), respectively, and such Successor
Servicer or Successor Administrator, as the case may be, shall accept its appointment by a written
assumption in a form acceptable to the Indenture Trustee. In the event that a Successor Servicer
or Successor Administrator has not been appointed and accepted its appointment at the time when the
Servicer or Administrator, as the case may be, ceases to act as Servicer or Administrator,
respectively, the Indenture Trustee without further action shall automatically be appointed the
Successor Servicer or Successor Administrator, as the case may be. The Indenture Trustee may
resign as the Successor Servicer or the Successor Administrator by giving written notice of
resignation to the Issuer and in such event will be released from such duties and obligations, such
release not to be effective until the date a new servicer or a new administrator enters into an
agreement with the Issuer as provided below. Upon delivery of any such notice to the Issuer, the
Issuer shall obtain a new servicer as the Successor Servicer under the Servicing Agreement or a new
administrator as the Successor Administrator under the Administration Agreement, as the case may
be. Any Successor Servicer or Successor Administrator, other than the Indenture Trustee, shall (i)
be an established institution whose regular business includes the servicing or administration of
student loans and (ii) enter into a servicing agreement or an administration agreement,
respectively, with the Issuer having substantially the same provisions as the provisions of the
Servicing Agreement and the Administration Agreement, as applicable. If within 30 days after the
delivery of the notice referred to above, the Issuer shall not have obtained such a new servicer or
new administrator, as the case may be, or if the Indenture Trustee shall be unwilling or legally
unable to act as Successor Servicer or Successor Administrator, the Indenture Trustee may appoint,
or may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor Servicer or Successor
Administrator; provided, however, that such right to appoint or to petition for the
appointment of any such successor shall in no event relieve the Indenture Trustee from any
obligations otherwise imposed on it under the Basic Documents until such successor has in fact
assumed such appointment. In connection with any such appointment, the Indenture Trustee may make
such arrangements for the compensation of such successor as it and such successor shall agree,
subject to the limitations set forth below and in the Servicing Agreement or Administration
Agreement, as applicable, and in accordance with Section 5.02 of the Servicing Agreement and
Section 5.02 of the Administration Agreement, the Issuer shall enter into an agreement with such
successor for the servicing or administration of the Trust Student Loans (such agreement to be in
form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee). If the Indenture Trustee shall succeed
as provided herein to the Servicer’s duties as Servicer with respect to the Trust Student Loans, or
the Administrator’s duties as Administrator with respect to the Issuer and the Trust Student Loans,
as the case may be, it shall do so in its individual capacity and not in its capacity as Indenture
Trustee and, accordingly, the provisions of Article VI hereof shall be inapplicable to the
Indenture Trustee in its duties as the successor to the Servicer or the Administrator, as the case
may be, and the servicing or administration of the Trust Student Loans. In case the Indenture
Trustee shall become successor to the Servicer or the Administrator, the Indenture

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Trustee shall be entitled to appoint as Servicer or as Administrator, as the case may be, any
one of its Affiliates, provided that such appointment shall not affect or alter in any way the
liability of the Indenture Trustee as Successor Servicer or Successor Administrator, respectively,
in accordance with the terms hereof.

     (f) Upon any termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to the Servicing
Agreement, or any termination of the Administrator’s rights and powers pursuant to the
Administration Agreement, as the case may be, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture
Trustee and each Rating Agency in writing. As soon as a Successor Servicer or a Successor
Administrator is appointed, the Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency in
writing of such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of such Successor
Servicer or such Successor Administrator.

     (g) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment granted to the Indenture
Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of the Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuer agrees
that it will not, without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of
at least a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes, amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate
or surrender, or agree to any amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or surrender
of, the terms of any Collateral or the Basic Documents, except to the extent otherwise provided in
the Basic Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the Servicer, the Administrator,
the Depositor, SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation, the Trustee, the Excess Distribution
Certificateholder or the Issuer under the Basic Documents; provided, however, that
no such amendment shall (i) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay
the timing of, distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of the Noteholders, or
(ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Notes which are required to consent to any such
amendment, without the consent of the Noteholders of all the Outstanding Notes. If any such
amendment, modification, supplement or waiver shall be so consented to by the Indenture Trustee in
writing or such Noteholders, the Issuer shall give written notice thereof to each Rating Agency and
agrees, promptly following a request by the Indenture Trustee to do so, to prepare, execute and
deliver, in its own name and at its own expense, such agreements, instruments, consents and other
documents as the Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or appropriate in the circumstances
(including but not limited to an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel of the Issuer).

     Section 3.08. Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer
shall not:

     (i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture or any other Basic Document, sell,
transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of the Issuer,
including those included in the Indenture Trust Estate, unless directed to do so, in
writing, by the Indenture Trustee;

     (ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest payable
in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the
Code or applicable state law) or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder
by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Indenture
Trust Estate;

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     (iii) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, or
permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or
discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with
respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B)
permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance
(other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise
upon or burden the Indenture Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the
proceeds thereof (other than tax liens and other liens that arise by operation of law, and
other than as expressly permitted by the Basic Documents), or (C) permit the lien of this
Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority (other than with respect to any such tax
or other lien) security interest in the Indenture Trust Estate; or

     (iv) be prohibited from entering into any amendment to the Swap Agreements to cure any
ambiguity in, or to correct or supplement any provision of the Swap Agreements, so long as
the Issuer has determined, and the Indenture Trustee confirms such determination in writing
at the written request of the Issuer, that the amendment will not materially adversely
affect the interests of the Noteholders and provided that the Indenture Trustee (A) has
received such documentation as the Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or appropriate in
the circumstances (including but not limited to, an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of
Counsel of the Issuer); and (B) has provided reasonable notice to the Rating Agencies of
such amendment and each Rating Agency has provided written confirmation that the then
current rating of the Notes will not be lowered or withdrawn.

     Section 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will deliver to the
Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Issuer (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006) an Officers’ Certificate of the
Issuer stating that:

     (i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year and of performance under
this Indenture has been made under such Authorized Officers’ supervision; and

     (ii) to the best of such Authorized Officers’ knowledge, based on such review, the
Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout such
year, or, if there has been a default in the compliance of any such condition or covenant,
specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officers and the nature and status
thereof.

     Section 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.

     (a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless:

     (i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or
merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America or any State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
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to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and
interest, if any, on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and
covenant of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents on the part of the Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein;

     (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing;

     (iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such
transaction;

     (iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered
copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have
any material adverse Federal or Delaware state tax consequence to the Issuer or any
Noteholder;

     (v) any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by
this Indenture shall have been taken; and

     (vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
of the Issuer and an Opinion of Counsel of the Issuer each stating that such consolidation
or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).

     (b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer all or substantially all its properties or assets,
including those included in the Indenture Trust Estate, to any Person, unless:

     (i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the
Issuer the conveyance or transfer of which is hereby restricted shall (A) be a United States
citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or
any State, (B) expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered
to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of, and interest, if any, on all Notes and the performance
or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to
be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly agree by means of such
supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall
be subject and subordinate to the rights of Noteholders, (D) unless otherwise provided in
such supplemental indenture, expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this
Indenture and the Notes, and (E) expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture
that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all
filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act
in connection with the Notes;

     (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing;

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     (iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such
transaction;

     (iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered
copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have
any material adverse Federal or Delaware state tax consequence to the Issuer or any
Noteholder;

     (v) any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by
this Indenture shall have been taken; and

     (vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
of the Issuer and an Opinion of Counsel of the Issuer each stating that such conveyance or
transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).

     Section 3.11.
Successor or Transferee. (a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the
Issuer in accordance with Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or
merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every
right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been
named as the Issuer herein.

     (b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.10(b), SLM Private Credit Student Loan Trust 2006-C will be released from every covenant
and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect
to the Notes immediately upon the delivery by the Issuer of written notice to the Indenture Trustee
stating that SLM Private Credit Student Loan Trust 2006-C is to be so released.

     Section 3.12. No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any business other
than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and managing the Trust Student Loans and the other
assets of the Issuer and related proceeds in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the
other Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto.

     Section 3.13. No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or
otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the Notes.

     Section 3.14. Obligations of Servicer and Administrator. The Issuer shall cause the
Servicer to comply with Sections 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03 of the Administration Agreement and Section
3.07 of the Servicing Agreement and the Administrator to comply with Sections 2.09, 3.01, 3.02 and
3.03 of the Administration Agreement.

     Section 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except as
contemplated by this Indenture and the other Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not make any loan or
advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of
assuring another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or
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connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or
acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any
other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.

     Section 3.16. Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any expenditure (by
long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).

     Section 3.17. Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, (i)
pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash,
property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of
the Issuer or to the Servicer or the Administrator, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise
acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or security, or (iii) set aside or
otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that the
Issuer may make, or cause to be made, distributions to the Servicer, the Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Noteholders, the Administrator, the Depositor and the Excess Distribution
Certificateholder as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for such purpose under,
this Indenture and the other Basic Documents. The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make
payments to or distributions from the Collection Account or any other Trust Account except in
accordance with this Indenture and the other Basic Documents.

     Section 3.18. Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the Indenture
Trustee, the Swap Counterparties and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of
Default hereunder and each default on the part of the Depositor of its obligations under the Sale
Agreement, SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation of its obligations under the Purchase
Agreements, the Servicer of its obligations under the Servicing Agreement, or the Administrator of
its obligations under the Administration Agreement. In addition, the Issuer shall deliver to the
Indenture Trustee, the Swap Counterparties and each Rating Agency, within five days after the
occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer of any
event which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under
Section 5.01(c), its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto.

     Section 3.19. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee,
the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be
reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

     Section 3.20. Representations and Warranties. The Issuer and Trustee represent and
warrant to the Indenture Trustee that, as of the Closing Date:

     (a) this Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the
applicable UCC) in the Trust Student Loans in favor of the Indenture Trustee, which security
interest is prior to all other security interests, liens, charges, claims, offsets, defenses,
counterclaims or encumbrances, and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers
from the Issuer and Trustee;

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     (b) the Trust Student Loans constitute “instruments” or “general intangibles” within the
meaning of the applicable UCC;

     (c) the Issuer has caused or will have caused, within thirty (30) days of the Closing Date,
the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing offices in the appropriate
jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest in the Trust Student
Loans granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder;

     (d) the Trustee owns and has legal title to the Trust Student Loans, which except for the
beneficial interest of the Issuer and any obligations created pursuant to this Indenture, are free
and clear of any lien, claim or encumbrance of any person; and

     (e) other than the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Indenture, the Trustee has not pledged, assigned, sold or granted a security interest in, or
otherwise conveyed, any interest in the Trust Student Loans. The Trust has not authorized the
filing of, and is not aware of any financing statements against, the Trustee that include a
description of collateral covering the Trust Student Loans, other than any financing statements
relating to the beneficial interest of the Issuer and the security interest granted to the
Indenture Trustee hereunder or that has been terminated. The Trust is not aware of any judgment or
tax lien filings against the Trust.

ARTICLE IV

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     Section 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall cease to
be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer
and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of
Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03,
3.04, 3.05, 3.08, 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture
Trustee hereunder (including, without limitation, the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section
6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Section 4.02), and (vi) the rights of
Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture
Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense
of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture with respect to the Notes, when:

     (a) either

     (1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Notes that have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section
2.05 and (B) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged
from such trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation; or

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     (2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation:

          (A) have become due and payable;

          (B) will become due and payable at their respective Note Final Maturity Date, within
one year; or

          (C) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the
name, and at the expense, of the Issuer, and the Issuer, in the case of (A), (B) or (C)
above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture
Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of
America (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for such
purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes
not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to the Note
Final Maturity Date;

     (b) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer;
and

     (c) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer,
an Opinion of Counsel of the Issuer and (if required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an
Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable
requirements of Section 11.01(a) and, subject to Section 11.02, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with.

     Section 4.02. Application of Trust Money. All moneys deposited with the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance
with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Noteholders of the particular Notes
for the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee,
of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such moneys need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Administration Agreement
or required by law.

     Section 4.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all moneys then held by any
Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect
to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and
applied according to Section 3.03 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such moneys.

     Section 4.04. Auction of Trust Student Loans. On the date (the “Trust Auction Date”)
that is three Business Days prior to the Distribution Date immediately following the end of the
first Collection Period when the Pool Balance is equal to 10% or less of the Initial Pool Balance,
any Trust Student Loans remaining in the Trust shall be offered for sale by the Indenture Trustee
unless the Servicer has exercised its option to purchase the Trust Estate as described in Section

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6.01(a) of the Administration Agreement with respect to such Distribution Date. The Servicer
will be deemed to have waived such option if it fails to notify the Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee of its exercise thereof in writing prior to the Indenture Trustee’s acceptance of a bid to
purchase such Trust Student Loans; provided, however, that there shall be no such
offer for sale if the Indenture Trustee fails to provide notice to the Servicer in accordance with
this Section 4.04. The Indenture Trustee shall provide written notice to the Servicer of any such
offer for sale at least 5 Business Days in advance of the Trust Auction Date. The Indenture
Trustee shall permit the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, including SLM Education Credit Finance
Corporation and the Servicer, to offer bids only if the Pool Balance as of the applicable Trust
Auction Date is equal to 10% or less of the Initial Pool Balance and such bid does not exceed the
fair market value of the Trust Student Loans as of the Trust Auction Date. If at least two bids
are received, the Indenture Trustee shall solicit and resolicit new bids from all participating
bidders until only one bid remains or the remaining bidders decline to resubmit bids. The
Indenture Trustee shall accept the highest of such remaining bids if it is equal to or in excess of
both the Minimum Purchase Amount (plus any amounts owed to the Servicer as Carryover Servicing
Fees) and the fair market value of such Trust Student Loans as of the end of the Collection Period
immediately preceding the Trust Auction Date. If at least two bids are not received or the highest
bid after the resolicitation process is completed is not equal to or in excess of the higher of the
Minimum Purchase Amount (plus any amounts owed to the Servicer as Carryover Servicing Fees) and the
fair market value of the Trust Student Loans, the Indenture Trustee shall not consummate such sale.
The Indenture Trustee may consult, and, at the direction of the Depositor, shall consult, with a
financial advisor, including an underwriter of the Notes or the Administrator, to determine if the
fair market value of the Trust Student Loans has been offered. The proceeds of any such sale will
be paid at the time set forth in Section 2.06 of the Administration Agreement and applied in the
order of priority set forth in Section 5.04(b). If the sale is not consummated in accordance with
the foregoing, the Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be under any obligation to, solicit bids
for sale of the Trust Student Loans with respect to future Distribution Dates upon terms similar to
those described above, including the Servicer’s waiver of its option to purchase the Trust Estate
in accordance with Section 6.01(a) of the Administration Agreement with respect to each such future
Distribution Date.

ARTICLE V

REMEDIES

     Section 5.01. Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or
order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

     (a) default in the payment of any interest on any Controlling Note when the same becomes due
and payable, and such default shall continue for a period of five Business Days or more;

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     (b) default in the payment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable
on the related Note Final Maturity Date;

     (c) default in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement of the Issuer made
in this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or performance
of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty
of the Issuer made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing having been incorrect
in any material respect as of the time when made, such default or breach having a material adverse
effect on the holders of the Notes, and such default or breach shall continue or not be cured, or
the circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect
shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 30 days after there shall have
been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by the Noteholders of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Notes, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation or
warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a notice of Default
hereunder;

     (d) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises
in respect of the Issuer or any substantial part of the Indenture Trust Estate in an involuntary
case under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trust
Estate, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer’s affairs, and such decree or order
shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

     (e) the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case under any applicable Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the
Issuer to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the
consent by the Issuer to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of
the Indenture Trust Estate, or the making by the Issuer of any general assignment for the benefit
of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or
the taking of action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

     Section 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of
Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case the Indenture Trustee or the
Noteholders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Notes may declare all the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice in
writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any such
declaration the unpaid principal amount of such Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest
thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable, subject,
however, to Section 5.04 of this Indenture.

     At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a
judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as
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majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Notes, by written notice to the Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

     (a) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

     (i) all payments of principal of and interest on all Notes and all other amounts that
would then be due hereunder or upon such Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such
acceleration had not occurred; and

     (ii) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee hereunder and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents
and counsel; and

     (b) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the Notes that has
become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12.

     No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereto.

     Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture
Trustee. The Issuer covenants that if (i) Default is made in the payment of any interest on
any Controlling Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such Default continues for a period
of five days, or (ii) Default is made in the payment of the principal of any Note when the same
becomes due and payable at the related Note Final Maturity Date, the Issuer shall, upon demand of
the Indenture Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Noteholders, the whole amount then due and
payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and, to
the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments
of interest, at the rate specified in Section 2.07 and in addition thereto such further amount as
shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and
counsel.

     (a) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the
Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a Proceeding
for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or
final decree, and may enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor upon such Notes and
collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon such
Notes, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.

     (b) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, as more
particularly provided in Section 5.04, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights
and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall
deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein,
or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee
by this Indenture or by law.

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     (c) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes
or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the Indenture Trust Estate, Proceedings
under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken
possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other,
comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the
creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of
whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable, as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any
demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention
in such proceedings or otherwise:

     (i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest
owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including
any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor
Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement
of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee
and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and
of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

     (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the
Noteholders in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar
functions in any such Proceedings;

     (iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the
Noteholders and of the Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and

     (iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders allowed in
any judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property;

     and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such
Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make payments to the Indenture
Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments
directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient
to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and
their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred,
and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a
result of negligence or bad faith.

     (d) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee to authorize
or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any

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Noteholder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of
any Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee
in bankruptcy or similar Person.

     (e) All rights of action for asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes,
may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the
production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or
Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an
express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements
and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective
agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Noteholders.

     (f) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any Proceedings involving
the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a
party), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Noteholders, and it shall not be
necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.

     Section 5.04. Remedies; Priorities. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.05):

     (a) (i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for the
collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect
thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect
from the Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes moneys adjudged due;

     (ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of
this Indenture, with respect to the Indenture Trust Estate;

     (iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC with respect to the Trust
Estate and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies
of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders;

     (iv) sell the Indenture Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest
therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted
by law; and/or

     (v) elect to have the Trustee maintain ownership of the Trust Student Loans and
continue to apply collections with respect to the Trust Student Loans as if there had been
no declaration of acceleration;

provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate
the Indenture Trust Estate following an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default described
in Section 5.01(a) or (b), unless (A) the Noteholders of 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Notes consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to
the Noteholders of the Controlling Notes are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due
and unpaid upon such Notes for principal and interest or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines that
the Indenture Trust Estate will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of
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Controlling Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the Indenture Trustee obtains the
consent of Noteholders of 66
2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes; provided,
further, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Indenture Trust
Estate following an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default described in Section 5.01(a)
or (b) with respect to the Class A Notes, unless (D) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation
distributable to the Class B Noteholders plus the proceeds of the sale or liquidation of the Trust
Estate distributable to the Class C Noteholders are sufficient to pay to the Class B Noteholders
and the Class C Noteholders their respective Outstanding Amount plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon or (E) if the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to the Class B Noteholders
plus the proceeds of the sale or liquidation of the Trust Estate distributable to the Class C
Noteholders would not be sufficient to pay to the Class B Noteholders and the Class C Noteholders
the outstanding principal plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, the Class B Noteholders and the
Class C Noteholders of at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes and the
Class C Notes consent thereto. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to
clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E), the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an
opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the
feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Indenture Trust Estate and/or
Trust Estate, as applicable, for such purpose.

     (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8.02, following the occurrence and during the
continuation of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(a), 5.01(b), 5.01(d) or 5.01(e) which
has resulted in an acceleration of the Notes (or following the occurrence of any such event after
an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(c) has occurred and the Trust has been liquidated),
if the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property, it shall pay out the money or property
(and other amounts including amounts held on deposit in the Reserve Account and the Cash
Capitalization Account) held as Collateral for the benefit of the Noteholders, net of liquidation
costs associated with the sale of the assets of the Trust, in the following order:

     (i) pro rata, to the Indenture Trustee for amounts due under Section 6.07 and to the
Trustee for amounts due under Section 8.1 of the Trust Agreement (but in each case, only to
the extent not paid by the Administrator or the Depositor);

     (ii) to the Servicer for any due and unpaid Primary Servicing Fees;

     (iii) to the Administrator, any due and unpaid Administration Fees;

     (iv) to the Swap Counterparties, any Swap Payments payable to a Swap Counterparty under
the related Swap Agreement for such Distribution Date;

     (v) pro rata, based on the Class Note Balance and the amount of any Swap Termination
Payments due and payable by the Issuer to the Swap Counterparties under this clause (v);

     (A) to the Class A Noteholders, for amounts due and unpaid on the Class
A Notes for interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A Notes for such
interest; and

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     (B) to the Swap Counterparties the amount of any Swap Termination
Payments due to the Swap Counterparty under the related Swap Agreement due
to a Termination Event or Event of Default (as defined in the related Swap
Agreement) resulting from a “Failure to Pay or Deliver” by the Trust under
section 5(a)(i), a “Cross Default” as applies to the Trust under section
5(a)(vi) or a “Bankruptcy” of the Trust under Section 5(a)(vii) each of the
related Swap Agreement; provided, that if any amounts allocable to
the Class A Notes are not needed to pay Class A Noteholders’ Interest
Distribution Amount as of such Distribution Date, such amounts will be
applied to pay the portion, if any, of any Swap Termination Payments
remaining unpaid;

     (vi) to the Class A Noteholders, ratably, an amount sufficient to reduce their
respective Class A Note Balance to zero;

     (vii) to the Class B Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the Class B Notes for
interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due
and payable on the Class B Notes for such interest;

     (viii) to Class B Noteholders, an amount sufficient to reduce the Class B Note Balance
to zero;

     (ix) to the Class C Noteholders, for amounts due and unpaid on the Class C Notes for
interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due
and payable on the Class C Notes for such interest;

     (x) to the Class C Noteholders, an amount sufficient to reduce the Class C Note Balance
to zero;

     (xi) to the Servicer, for any unpaid Carryover Servicing Fees;

     (xii) to the Swap Counterparties, the amount of any Swap Termination Payments due and
payable by the Issuer to a Swap Counterparty under the Swap Agreements and not payable in
clause (iv) or (v) above; and

     (xiii) to the Excess Distribution Certificateholder, any remaining funds.

     The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Noteholders
pursuant to this Section. At least 15 days before such record date, the Indenture Trustee shall
mail to each Noteholder and the Issuer a notice that states the record date, the payment date and
the amount to be paid.

     Section 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Trust Student Loans. If the Notes have
been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of Default and such
declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may,
but need not, elect to maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate. It is the desire of the
parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of
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account when determining whether or not to maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate.
In determining whether to maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee
may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or
accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the
sufficiency of the Indenture Trust Estate for such purpose.

     Section 5.06. Limitation of Suits. No Noteholder shall have any right to institute
any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a
receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

     (a) such Noteholder has previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default;

     (b) the Noteholders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Notes
have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;

     (c) such Noteholder or Noteholders have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity
against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such request;

     (d) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of
indemnity has failed to institute such Proceeding; and

     (e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Indenture
Trustee during such 60-day period by the Noteholders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Notes;

it being understood and intended that no one or more Noteholders shall have any right in any manner
whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of any other Noteholders or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other Noteholders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided.

     In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and
indemnity from two or more groups of Noteholders, each representing less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what
action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

     Section 5.07. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, any Noteholder shall have the right, which
is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Note on
or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or, in the
case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Noteholder.

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     Section 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee or any
Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and
such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely
to the Indenture Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights
and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such
Proceeding had been instituted.

     Section 5.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred
upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any
other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.

     Section 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the Indenture
Trustee or any Noteholder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the
Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case may be.

     Section 5.11. Control by Noteholders. The Noteholders of a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect
to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided,
that:

     (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;

     (b) subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to the Indenture Trustee to
sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate shall be by the Noteholders of not less than 100% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Notes;

     (c) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.05 have been satisfied and the Indenture Trustee
elects to retain the Indenture Trust Estate pursuant to such Section, then any direction to the
Indenture Trustee by Noteholders of less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling
Notes to sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect; and

     (d) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee
that is not inconsistent with such direction;

provided, however, that subject to Section 6.01, the Indenture Trustee need not
take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or might materially adversely
affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action.

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     Section 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the time a judgment or decree for
payment of money due has been obtained as described in Section 5.03, the Noteholders of not less
than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Notes may waive any past Default and
its consequences except a Default (a) in payment when due of principal of or interest on any of the
Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended
without the consent of each Noteholder. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder,
respectively: but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any
right consequent thereto.

     Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and
not to have occurred for every purpose of this Indenture: but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

     Section 5.13. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each
Noteholder by such Noteholder’s acceptance of any Note shall be deemed to have agreed, that any
court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking
to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions
of this Section shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit
instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more
than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for
the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective
due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after
the Redemption Date).

     Section 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner
whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this
Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all
benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

     Section 5.15. Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek and recover
judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or
application of any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this
Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired
by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any
execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Indenture Trust Estate or upon any of the
assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in
accordance with Section 5.04(b).

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     Section 5.16. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.

     (a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so and at the
Administrator’s expense, the Issuer shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may
request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Depositor, SLM Education Credit
Finance Corporation, the Administrator and the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their respective
obligations to the Issuer, whether directly or by assignment, under or in connection with a Basic
Document, respectively, in accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights,
remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with a
Basic Document, as the case may be, to the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture
Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the Depositor, SLM
Education Credit Finance Corporation, the Administrator or the Servicer thereunder and the
institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by
the Depositor, SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation, the Administrator or the Servicer of each
of their obligations under a Basic Document, respectively.

     (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and at
the written direction of the Noteholders of 66 2/3% of the Controlling Outstanding Amount of the
Notes shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer against the
Depositor, SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation, the Administrator or the Servicer under or in
connection with a Basic Document, respectively, including the right or power to take any action to
compel or secure performance or observance by the Depositor, SLM Education Credit Finance
Corporation, the Administrator or the Servicer of each of their obligations to the Issuer
thereunder, whether directly or by assignment, and to give any consent, request, notice, direction,
approval, extension or waiver under a Basic Document, respectively, and any right of the Issuer to
take such action shall be suspended.

ARTICLE VI

THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

     Section 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee.

     (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and
skill in its exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of such person’s own affairs.

     (b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

     (i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and

     (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively
rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions

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expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided, however, that
the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or
not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

     (c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

     (i) this clause (c) does not limit the effect of clause (b) of this Section;

     (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good
faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

     (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or
omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction of the Noteholders received by it
pursuant to this Indenture.

     (d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except
as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.

     (e) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture or the other Basic Documents.

     (f) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its
own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder
or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe
that repayments of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability
or expense is not reasonably assured to it.

     (g) Except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall have no
obligation to administer, service or collect the Trust Student Loans or to maintain, monitor or
otherwise supervise the administration, servicing or collection of the Trust Student Loans.

     (h) In the event that the Indenture Trustee is the Paying Agent or the Note Registrar, the
rights and protections afforded to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture shall also be
afforded to the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Paying Agent or Note Registrar.

     (i) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section
and to the provisions of the TIA.

     (j) The rights and protections of the Indenture Trustee under Sections 6.01 and 6.02 shall
apply to each of the Basic Documents as though explicitly incorporated therein.

     (k) For so long as reports are required to be filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act
with respect to the Issuer, on or before March 1st of each calendar year,

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commencing in 2007, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Issuer and the Administrator a
report (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrator, acting on behalf of the
Issuer) regarding the Indenture Trustee’s assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing
Criteria during the immediately preceding calendar year, as required under Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18
of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB. Such report shall be addressed to the Issuer
and signed by an authorized officer of the Indenture Trustee, and shall address the Applicable
Servicing Criteria specified on a certification substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached
hereto.

     Section 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee. (a) The Indenture Trustee may rely on any
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person.
The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in such document.

     (b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require and shall be
entitled to receive an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer and/or an Opinion of Counsel. The
Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely on any such Opinion of Counsel or Officers’ Certificate and
shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such
Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

     (c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any
duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee,
and the Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of,
or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care
by it hereunder.

     (d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good
faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided,
however, that the Indenture Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith.

     (e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or opinion of counsel with
respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete
authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by
it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

     (f) The Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or
matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document, but the Indenture Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Indenture Trustee shall
determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books,
records and premises of the Issuer, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the
Issuer and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry
or investigation.

     (g) In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, or
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profit) irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of
such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

     Section 6.03. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee in its
individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal
with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture
Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with
like rights. However, the Indenture Trustee must comply with Sections 6.11 and 6.12.

     Section 6.04. Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be
responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the
Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it
shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture or in any document issued
in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee’s
certificate of authentication.

     Section 6.05. Notice of Defaults. If a Default or a Servicer Default occurs and is
continuing and if it is either actually known to a Responsible Officer or written notice of the
existence thereof has been delivered to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee shall mail notice of the Default to each Noteholder within 90 days and to each
Rating Agency as soon as practicable within 30 days after it occurs. Except in the case of a
Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to the
mandatory redemption provisions of such Note), the Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and
so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the
notice is in the interests of Noteholders. Except as provided in the first sentence of this
Section 6.05, in no event shall the Indenture Trustee be deemed to have knowledge of a Default, a
Servicer Default or an Event of Default.

     Section 6.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee
shall deliver to each Noteholder (and to each Person who was a Noteholder at any time during the
applicable calendar year) such information as may be required to enable such holder to prepare its
Federal and state income tax returns. Within 60 days after each December 31 beginning with the
December 31 following the date of this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each
Noteholder a brief report as of such December 31 that complies with TIA § 313(a) if required by
said section. The Indenture Trustee shall also comply with TIA § 313(b). A copy of each such
report required pursuant to TIA § 313(a) or (b) shall, at the time of such transaction to
Noteholders, be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and with each securities
exchange, if any, upon which the Notes are listed, provided that the Issuer has previously notified
the Indenture Trustee of such listing.

     Section 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity. The Issuer shall cause the Depositor to pay
to the Indenture Trustee reasonable compensation for its services in accordance with a separate
agreement between the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee and shall cause the Depositor to
reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses including the reasonable
expenses and disbursements of its counsel incurred or made by it as provided in such separate
agreement. The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of
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indemnify the Indenture Trustee and its directors, officers, employees and agents against any
and all losses, claims, actions, suits, damages, liabilities, costs, penalties, taxes (excluding
taxes payable by it on any compensation received by it for its services as Indenture Trustee) or
expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by it in connection with the administration of this
trust and the performance of its duties hereunder and under the other Basic Documents. The
Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer and the Administrator promptly of any claim for which it
may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer and the Administrator
shall not relieve the Issuer or the Administrator of its obligations hereunder and under the other
Basic Documents. The Issuer shall cause the Administrator to defend the claim and the
Administrator shall not be liable for the legal fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee after it
has assumed such defense; provided, however, that, in the event that there may be a
conflict between the positions of the Indenture Trustee and the Administrator in conducting the
defense of such claim, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to separate counsel acceptable to it
in its sole discretion the reasonable fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Administrator
on behalf of the Issuer. Neither the Issuer nor the Administrator need reimburse any expense or
indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the
Indenture Trustee’s own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

     The Issuer’s payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section shall
survive the discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation and removal of the Indenture
Trustee. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in
Section 5.01(d) or (e) with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses
of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

     Section 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee. No resignation or removal of the
Indenture Trustee and no appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee shall become effective until
the acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.08. The
Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer. The Noteholders of at least a
majority in Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Notes may remove the Indenture Trustee by so
notifying the Indenture Trustee and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. The Issuer shall
remove the Indenture Trustee if:

     (i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;

     (ii) an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the Indenture Trustee;

     (iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture Trustee or its
property; or

     (iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

     If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of
Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in such event being referred to herein as
the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.

     A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the
retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring

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Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all
the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The successor
Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Indenture
Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor
Indenture Trustee.

     If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring
Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the
Noteholders of not less than a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Notes may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee. The
successor Indenture Trustee shall give notice of its appointment as successor Indenture Trustee to
the Rating Agencies.

     If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee.

     Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section, the
Issuer’s and the Administrator’s obligations under Section 6.07 shall continue for the benefit of
the retiring Indenture Trustee.

     Section 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. If the Indenture Trustee
consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate
trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving
or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee,
provided that such corporation or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible
under Section 6.11. The Indenture Trustee shall provide prior written notice of any such
transaction to the Rating Agencies.

     In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the
Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have
been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated;
and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the
Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in
the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall
have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the
certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.

     Section 6.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding any
other provisions of this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement
of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Indenture Trust Estate may at the time be located, the
Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one
or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of
all or any part of the Indenture Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such
capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Indenture Trust Estate, or any
part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties,
obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No
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appointment shall relieve the Indenture Trustee of its obligations hereunder. No co-trustee
or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor
trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or
separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.08 hereof.

     (b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed
and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:

     (i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Indenture
Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture
Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such
separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Indenture
Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in
which any particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be
incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers,
duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Indenture Trust Estate or any
portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such
separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Indenture Trustee;

     (ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission
of any other trustee hereunder; and

     (iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any
separate trustee or co-trustee.

     (c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to
have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given
to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to
this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon
its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in
its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be
provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Indenture
Trustee.

     (d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the Indenture Trustee, its
agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do
any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all its
estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Indenture
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

     Section 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. (a) The Indenture Trustee shall at all
times satisfy the requirements of TIA § 310(a) and the requirements of Rule 3a-7(a)(4)(i) of the
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Indenture Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set
forth in its most recent published annual report of condition and it shall have a long-term senior
unsecured debt rating of not less than investment grade by each of the Rating Agencies. The
Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b), including the optional provision permitted by the
second sentence of TIA § 310(b)(9); provided, however, that there shall be excluded
from the operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities of
the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA § 310(b)(1) are
met.

     (b) Within ninety (90) days after ascertaining the occurrence of an Event of Default which
shall not have been cured or waived, unless authorized by the TIA or the Commission, the Indenture
Trustee shall resign with respect to the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes and/or the Class C Notes
in accordance with Section 6.08 of this Indenture, and the Issuer shall appoint a successor
Indenture Trustee for two or all of such Classes, as applicable, so that there will be separate
Indenture Trustees for the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes. In the event
the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with the terms of the preceding sentence, the Indenture
Trustee shall comply with clauses (ii) and (iii) of TIA § 310(b).

     (c) In the case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Indenture Trustee with respect to
any Class of Notes pursuant to this Section 6.11, the Issuer, the retiring Indenture Trustee and
the successor Indenture Trustee with respect to such Class of Notes shall execute and deliver an
indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Indenture Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to
transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, the successor Indenture Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of the Class to which
the appointment of such successor Indenture Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Indenture Trustee
is not retiring with respect to all Classes of Notes, shall contain such provisions as shall be
deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of each Class as to which the retiring
Indenture Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the Indenture Trustee and (iii)
shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for
or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Indenture Trustee, it
being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such
Indenture Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Indenture Trustee shall be a
trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder
administered by any other such Indenture Trustee; and upon the removal of the retiring Indenture
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided herein.

     Section 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The Indenture Trustee
shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). An
Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent
indicated.

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ARTICLE VII

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

     Section 7.01. Issuer to Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders.
The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five
days after the earlier of (i) each Record Date and (ii) three months after the last Record Date, a
list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of
the Noteholders as of such Record Date, (b) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may
request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time such list is
furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note
Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

     Section 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders. The
Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and
addresses of the Noteholders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee
as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Noteholders received by the Indenture
Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to
it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

     (a) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Noteholders with respect
to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes. Upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of
any request by three or more Noteholders or by one or more holders of Notes evidencing not less
than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes to receive a copy of the current list of
Noteholders (whether or not made pursuant to TIA § 312(b)), the Indenture Trustee shall promptly
notify the Administrator thereof by providing to the Administrator a copy of such request and a
copy of the list of Noteholders produced in response thereto.

     (b) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of TIA
§ 312(c).

     (c) On each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee shall provide to each Noteholder of
record as of the related Record Date the information provided by the Administrator to the Indenture
Trustee on the related Determination Date pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Administration Agreement.
The Indenture Trustee shall make such information available on its website at
http://www.bnyinvestorreporting.com. In connection with any electronic transmissions of
information, including without limitation, the use of electronic mail or internet or intranet web
sites, the systems used in such transmissions are not fully tested by the Indenture Trustee and may
not be completely reliable as to stability, robustness and accuracy. Accordingly, the parties
hereto acknowledge and agree that information electronically transmitted as described herein may
not be relied upon as timely, accurate or complete and that the Indenture Trustee shall have no
liability hereunder in connection with such information transmitted electronically. The parties
hereto further acknowledge that any systems, software or hardware utilized in posting or retrieving
any such information is utilized on an “as is” basis without representation or warranty as to the
intended uses of such systems, software or hardware. The Indenture Trustee makes no representation
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software used in connection with the electronic transmission of information are free and clear
of threats known as software and hardware viruses, time bombs, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms,
or other malicious computer instructions, intentional devices or techniques which may cause a
component or system to become erased, damaged, inoperable, or otherwise incapable of being used in
the manner to which it is intended, or which would permit unauthorized access thereto. In the
event such web site is not available, the Indenture Trustee shall use reasonable efforts to
distribute such information in a timely manner to the intended recipients.

     (d) The Indenture Trustee shall furnish to the Noteholders promptly upon receipt of a written
request therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates,
financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Indenture Trustee under the Basic
Documents. The Indenture Trustee shall furnish to the Noteholders promptly upon receipt thereof
from the Trustee notice of any amendment of the Administration Agreement pursuant to Section 8.05
of the Administration Agreement.

     Section 7.03. Reports by Issuer. (a) The Issuer shall:

     (i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer is required to
file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information,
documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the
Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Issuer may be
required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;

     (ii) file with the Indenture Trustee and file with the Commission in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission such additional
information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Issuer with the
conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such
rules and regulations; and

     (iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee shall transmit by mail
to all Noteholders described in TIA § 313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents
and reports required to be filed by the Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this
Section 7.03(a) as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by
the Commission.

     (b) Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuer shall end on
December 31 of each year.

ARTICLE VIII

ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

     Section 8.01. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the
Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and
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property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The
Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it on behalf of Noteholders or the Trust
pursuant to the Administration Agreement as provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any payment or
performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Indenture Trust Estate, the
Indenture Trustee may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or
performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action
shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default under this Indenture and any right to
proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.

     Section 8.02. Trust Accounts. (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall
cause the Administrator to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, for the
benefit of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders, any Swap Counterparty and the Trust, the Trust
Accounts as provided in Section 2.03 of the Administration Agreement.

     (b) On or before the Business Day preceding each Distribution Date, all Available Funds with
respect to the preceding Collection Period will be deposited in the Collection Account as provided
in Section 2.04 of the Administration Agreement. On or before each Distribution Date, the
Indenture Trustee (or any other Paying Agent) shall make the deposits and distributions as provided
in Sections 2.07, 2.08(a), (b) and (c) of the Administration Agreement (except as otherwise
provided in Section 5.02 or Section 5.04(b)).

     (c) On the Business Day immediately preceding each Distribution Date, if the Issuer has not
received payment in full of the amount required to offset any deficiency caused by a realized
Borrower Benefit Yield Reduction for the related Collection Period pursuant to Section 3.12 of the
Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee, as directed by the Administrator, shall withdraw from
the Borrower Benefit Account on that Distribution Date an amount equal to such deficiency, to the
extent of funds available therein, to be included as part of Available Funds for that Distribution
Date.

     Section 8.03. General Provisions Regarding Accounts. (a) So long as no Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Trust Accounts shall be
invested in Eligible Investments and reinvested by the Indenture Trustee upon Issuer Order, subject
to the provisions of Section 2.03(b) of the Administration Agreement. All income or other gain
from investments of moneys deposited in the Trust Accounts shall be deposited by the Indenture
Trustee in the Collection Account, and any loss resulting from such investments shall be charged to
such Trust Account. The Issuer will not direct the Indenture Trustee to make any investment of any
funds or to sell any investment held in any of the Trust Accounts unless the security interest
granted and perfected in such account will continue to be perfected in such investment or the
proceeds of such sale. In either case, without any further action by any Person, and, in connection
with any direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any such investment or sale, if requested by
the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel of
the Issuer, acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to such effect.

     (b) Subject to Section 6.01(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable for
the selection of Eligible Investments or by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Trust
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attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s failure to make payments on such Eligible Investments
issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as
trustee, in accordance with their terms. The Indenture Trustee shall have no liability in respect
of losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any investment prior to its stated maturity or
the failure of the Issuer to provide timely written investment direction.

     (c) If (i) the Issuer shall have failed to give investment directions for any funds on deposit
in the Trust Accounts to the Indenture Trustee by 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (or such other time as
may be agreed by the Issuer and Indenture Trustee) on any Business Day; or (ii) a Default shall
have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have been
declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.02, or, if such Notes shall have been declared due
and payable following an Event of Default and amounts collected or receivable from the Indenture
Trust Estate are being applied in accordance with Section 5.05 as if there had not been such a
declaration; then the Indenture Trustee shall invest and reinvest funds in the Trust Accounts in
the Eligible Investments described in clause (d) of the definition thereof.

     Section 8.04. Release of Indenture Trust Estate. (a) Subject to the payment of its
fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.07, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the
provisions of this Indenture shall, execute instruments to release property from the lien of this
Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under
circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No party relying
upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in this Article VIII shall be
bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any
conditions precedent or see to the application of any moneys.

     (b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes Outstanding and all sums
due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07 have been paid, release any remaining portion of
the Indenture Trust Estate that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and release to
the Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Trust Accounts.
The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to this
Section 8.04(b) only upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate of
the Issuer, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA) Independent Certificates in
accordance with TIA §§ 314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01.

     (c) Each Noteholder, by the acceptance of a Note, acknowledges that from time to time the
Indenture Trustee shall release the lien of this Indenture on any Trust Student Loan to be sold to
(i) the Depositor in accordance with Article VI of the Sale Agreement, (i) to VG Funding in
accordance with Article VI of the VG Funding Purchase Agreement or (iii) to SLM ECFC in accordance
with Article VI of the SLM ECFC Purchase Agreement, and (iv) the Servicer in accordance with
Section 3.05 of the Servicing Agreement and each Noteholder, by the acceptance of a Note, consents
to any such release.

     Section 8.05. Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven
days’ notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.04(a),
accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require,
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action, an Opinion of Counsel of the Issuer, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to
complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have
been complied with and such action will not materially and adversely impair the security for the
Notes or the rights of the Noteholders in contravention of the provisions of this Indenture;
provided, however, that such Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express an
opinion as to the fair value of the Indenture Trust Estate. Counsel rendering any such opinion may
rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other
instrument delivered to the Indenture Trustee in connection with any such action.

ARTICLE IX

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

     Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders. (a) Without
the consent of any Noteholders but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

     (i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the
lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee
any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to
subject to the lien of this Indenture additional property;

     (ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions hereof,
of another person to the Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants
of the Issuer herein and in the Notes contained;

     (iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the Noteholders, or to
surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer;

     (iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to the Indenture
Trustee;

     (v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein or in any
supplemental indenture which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any
supplemental indenture or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions
arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture; provided, that such
action shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the Noteholders;

     (vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a
successor trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or

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     (vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as
shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any
similar Federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other provisions
as may be expressly required by the TIA.

     The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental
indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein
contained.

     (b) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may, also
without the consent of any of the Noteholders but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, enter
into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in
any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however,
that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of any Noteholder.

     Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, with prior notice to the Rating
Agencies and with the consent of the Noteholders of not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes, by Act of such Noteholders delivered to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee,
enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions
to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided,
however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Noteholder
of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

     (i) change the date of payment of any installment of principal of or interest on any
Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate thereon or the Redemption
Price with respect thereto, change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the
application of collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Indenture Trust Estate to
payment of principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or
the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the
right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture requiring
the application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any
such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case
of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);

     (ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the consent of the
Noteholders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the
Noteholders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of
this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this
Indenture;

     (iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term
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     (iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes required to direct
the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate
pursuant to Section 5.04;

     (v) modify any provision of this Section except to increase any percentage specified
herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of this Indenture or the other Basic
Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Noteholder of each
Outstanding Note affected thereby;

     (vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as to affect the
calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due on any Note on any
Distribution Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such
calculation) or to affect the rights of the Noteholders to the benefit of any provisions for
the mandatory redemption of the Notes contained herein; or

     (vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of
this Indenture with respect to any part of the Indenture Trust Estate or, except as
otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any
property at any time subject hereto or deprive any Noteholder of any Note of the security
provided by the lien of this Indenture.

     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders under this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act
shall approve the substance thereof.

     Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Noteholders of the
Notes to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general
terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail
such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of
any such supplemental indenture.

     Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or permitting the
additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the
modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized
or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

     Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to
be modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the
respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under
this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Noteholders shall thereafter be
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amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and
be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

     Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this Indenture
and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.

     Section 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if
required by the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee
as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture
Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.

ARTICLE X

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

     Section 10.01. Redemption. The Indenture Trustee shall, upon receipt of written
notice from the Servicer pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Administration Agreement, give prompt
written notice to the Noteholders of the occurrence of such event. In the event that the assets of
the Trust are sold pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Administration Agreement, that portion of the
amounts on deposit in the Trust Accounts to be distributed to the Noteholders shall be paid to the
Noteholders up to the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon
as provided in Sections 2.07 and 2.08 of the Administration Agreement. If amounts are to be paid
to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 10.01, the notice of such event from the Indenture Trustee
to the Noteholders shall include notice of the redemption of Notes by application of such amounts
on the next Distribution Date which is not sooner than 15 days after the date of such notice (the
“Redemption Date”), whereupon all such amounts shall be payable on the Redemption Date.

     Section 10.02. Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption under Section 10.01
shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile,
mailed or transmitted on or prior to the applicable Redemption Date to each Noteholder, as of the
close of business on the Record Date preceding the applicable Redemption Date, at such Noteholder’s
address or facsimile number appearing in the Note Register.

     All notices of redemption shall state:

     (i) the Redemption Date;

     (ii) the Redemption Price; and

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     (iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption
Price (which shall be the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in
Section 3.02).

     Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture Trustee in the name and at
the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any
Noteholder of any Note shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note.

     Section 10.03. Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes or portions thereof to be
redeemed shall on the Redemption Date become due and payable at the Redemption Price and (unless
the Issuer shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the
Redemption Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes
of calculating the Redemption Price.

ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

     Section 11.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. Upon any application or
request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies (i) an
Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in
this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel
stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with and (iii) (if required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of
certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements of this Section, except that, in
the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is
specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need
be furnished.

     (a) Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this indenture shall include:

     (i) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has
caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

     (ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

     (iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such signatory has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such signatory to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

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     (iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such condition
or covenant has been complied with.

(b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or securities with the
Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the release of any property or securities
subject to the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation
imposed in Section 11.01(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee
and the Rating Agencies an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer certifying or stating the
opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such
deposit) to the Issuer of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.

     (ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating
Agencies an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer certifying or stating the opinion of any
signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (i) above, the Issuer shall also
deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the
fair value to the Issuer of the securities to be so deposited and of all other such
securities made the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the commencement of the
then-current fiscal year of the Issuer, as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant
to clause (i) above and this clause (ii), is 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes, but such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any securities so
deposited, if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as set forth in the related Officers’
Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes.

     (iii) Other than any property released as contemplated by clause (v) below, whenever
any property or securities are to be released from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer
shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer
certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair
value (within 90 days of such release) of the property or securities proposed to be released
and stating that in the opinion of such person the proposed release will not impair the
security under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.

     (iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officers’
Certificate of the Issuer certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the
matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the property
or securities and of all other property, other than property as contemplated by clause (v)
below, or securities released from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the
then-current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates required by clause (iii) above
and this clause (iv), equals 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such
certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities if
the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officers’ Certificate is less than
$25,000 or less than one percent of the then Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

     (v) Notwithstanding Section 2.09 or any other provision of this Section, the Issuer
may, without compliance with the requirements of the other provisions of this Section, (A)
collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Trust Student Loans as and to the extent
permitted or required by the Basic Documents, (B) make cash payments out of

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the Trust
Accounts as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents and (C) convey to
the Depositor, the Servicer or another eligible lender those specified Trust Student Loans
as and to the extent permitted or required by and in accordance with Section 8.04(c) hereof
and Section 6.01 of the Sale Agreement, Section 3.05 of the Servicing Agreement or Section
3.11(d) of the Servicing Agreement, respectively, so long as the Issuer shall deliver to the
Indenture Trustee every six months, commencing December 31, 2006, an Officers’ Certificate
of the Issuer stating that all the dispositions of Collateral described in clauses (A), (B)
or (C) above that occurred during the immediately preceding six calendar months were in the
ordinary course of the Issuer’s business and that the proceeds thereof were applied in
accordance with the Basic Documents.

     Section 11.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person,
it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one
such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may
certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters, and one or more other such Persons as to
other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or
several documents.

     Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be based, insofar as it
relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless
such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is
based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be
based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Issuer or the
Administrator, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Issuer or the Administrator, unless such counsel
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

     Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

     Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the
Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the
granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer’s compliance with any term hereof, it is
intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at the
effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated
in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such
application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not,
however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee’s right to rely upon the truth and accuracy
of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article VI.

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     Section 11.03. Acts of Noteholders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as
herein otherwise expressly provided such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to
the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby)
are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders signing such instrument or
instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent
shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in
favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

     (b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee deems sufficient.

     (c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.

     (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by
any Noteholder shall bind the Noteholder of every Note issued upon registration of transfer thereof
or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be
done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Note.

     Section 11.04. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other
documents provided or permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders is to be made upon, given
or furnished to or filed with:

     (a) The Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder, the Servicer, the Administrator or by the Issuer
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or
with the Indenture Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office with a copy to the Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office, or

     (b) The Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid, to the Issuer addressed
to: SLM Private Credit Student Loan Trust 2006-C, in care of the Trustee, Christiana Center/OPS4,
500 Stanton Christiana Road, Newark, Delaware 19713, Attention: Corporate Trust Department; with
copies to The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street, 8 West, New York, New York 10286, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration, The Bank of New York, 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago,
Illinois 60602, Attention: Structured Finance; SLM Private Credit Student Loan Trust 2006-C, 12061
Bluemont Way, V3419, Reston, Virginia 20190, Attention: Director, Corporate Finance Operations, or
any other address previously furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer or the
Administrator. The Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to
the Indenture Trustee.

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     Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or
the Trustee shall be in writing, personally delivered or mailed by certified mail, return receipt
requested, to (i) in the case of Moody’s, at the following address: ABS Monitoring Department, 99
Church Street, New York, New York 10007, (ii) in the case of Standard & Poor’s, at the following
address: 55 Water Street, New York, New York 10041-0003, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance
Department, 32nd Floor, and (iii) in the case of Fitch, at the following address: One State Street
Plaza, New York, New York 10004, Attention Municipal Structured Finance Group; or as to each of the
foregoing, at such other address as shall be designated by written notice to the other parties.

     Section 11.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides for
notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise
herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each
Noteholder affected by such event, at his address as it appears on the Note Register, not later
than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such
notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Noteholder shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the
manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.

     Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing
by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver
shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the
Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such a waiver.

     In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work
stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders
when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any
manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to
be a sufficient giving of such notice.

     Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies, failure to give such notice
shall not affect any other rights or obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any
circumstance constitute a Default.

     Section 11.06. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding any provision
of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement with
any Noteholder providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying
Agent to such Noteholder, that is different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for
such payments or notices. The Issuer will furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such
agreement and the Indenture Trustee will cause payments to be made and notices to be given in
accordance with such agreements.

     Section 11.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits,
qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to be included in this
Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.

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     The provisions of TIA §§ 310 through 317 that impose duties on any Person (including the
provisions automatically deemed included herein unless expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a
part of and govern this Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein.

     Section 11.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section
headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction hereof.

     Section 11.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture
and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successor and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All
agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind the successors, co-trustees and
agents (excluding any legal representatives or accountants) of the Indenture Trustee.

     Section 11.10. Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the
remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

     Section 11.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes,
express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder, the Noteholders, any other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an
ownership interest in any part of the Indenture Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

     Section 11.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any payment is due
shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this
Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business
Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest
shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.

     Section 11.13. GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN
§5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW), AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

     Section 11.14. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

     Section 11.15. Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in
any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its
expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any
other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such recording is
necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for
the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

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     Section 11.16. Trust Obligations. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Administrator, the Servicer, the
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other
writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the
Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii)
any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or
the Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder or owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer,
the Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign thereof in its individual
capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the
Indenture Trustee and the Trustee have no such obligations in their individual capacity) and except
that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by
applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the
performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Trustee shall be subject to,
and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles VI, VII and VIII of the Trust
Agreement.

     Section 11.17. No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture,
and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, hereby covenant and agree that they shall not at any time
institute against the Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Depositor or
the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, receivership or liquidation
proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States Federal or state bankruptcy or similar
law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any of the other
Basic Documents. The foregoing shall not limit the rights of the Indenture Trustee to file any
claim in, or otherwise take any action with respect to, any insolvency proceeding that was
instituted against the Issuer by any Person other than the Indenture Trustee.

     Section 11.18. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it
shall permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, during the Issuer’s normal business
hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports, and other papers of the Issuer, to
make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified
public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer’s
officers, employees, and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and
as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall and shall cause its
representatives to hold in confidence all such information obtained from such examination or
inspection except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications
for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the Indenture Trustee may
reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.

     Section 11.19. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE ISSUER AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO
TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR
THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

     Section 11.20. Force Majeure. In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be responsible
or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of
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caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation,
acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts
of God; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with
accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the
circumstances.

ARTICLE XII

COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION AB

     Section 12.01. Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness. The Issuer, the Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee acknowledge and agree that the purpose of Article XII of this Agreement is to
facilitate compliance by the Issuer with the provisions of Regulation AB and related rules and
regulations of the Commission.

     The Trustee and the Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer, shall not exercise their right to
request delivery of information or other performance under these provisions other than in good
faith, or for purposes other than compliance with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the
rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (or the provision in a private offering of
disclosure comparable to that required under the Securities Act). The Indenture Trustee
acknowledges that interpretations of the requirements of Regulation AB may change over time,
whether due to interpretive guidance provided by the Commission or its staff, consensus among
participants in the asset-backed securities markets, advice of counsel, or otherwise, and agrees to
comply with requests made by the Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer, in good faith for delivery
of information under these provisions on the basis of evolving interpretations of Regulation AB.
In connection therewith, the Indenture Trustee shall cooperate fully with the Administrator, on
behalf of the Issuer, to deliver to the Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer (including any of
its assignees or designees), any and all statements, reports, certifications, records, attestation,
and any other information necessary in the good faith determination of the Administrator, on behalf
of the Issuer, to permit the Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer, to comply with the provisions
of Regulation AB, together with such disclosures relating to the Indenture Trustee or the servicing
of the Trust Student Loans, reasonably believed by the Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer, to
be necessary in order to effect such compliance.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused this Indenture to be duly
executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly authorized and duly attested, all as of the
day and year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	SLM PRIVATE CREDIT STUDENT LOAN TRUST 2006-C	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: CHASE BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its

individual capacity but solely as Trustee	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:

Name:
	 	/S/ JOHN J. CASHIN
 

       John J. Cashin
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	       Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Indenture Trustee	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/S/ ERIC A. LINDAHL	 	 
	 

	 	Name:
	 	      Eric A. Lindahl	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	      Agent	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	CHASE BANK USA,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Trustee	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/S/ JOHN J. CASHIN	 	 
	 

	 	Name:
	 	      John J. Cashin	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	      Vice President	 	 

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APPENDIX A

DEFINITIONS AND USAGE

2006-C

Usage

     The following rules of construction and usage shall be applicable to any instrument that is
governed by this appendix (this “Appendix”):

          (a) All terms defined in this Appendix shall have the defined meanings when used in any
instrument governed hereby and in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant
thereto unless otherwise defined therein.

          (b) As used herein, in any instrument governed hereby and in any certificate or other document
made or delivered pursuant thereto, accounting terms not defined in this Appendix or in any such
instrument, certificate or other document, and accounting terms partly defined in this Appendix or
in any such instrument, certificate or other document, to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on
the date of such instrument. To the extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this
Appendix or in any such instrument, certificate or other document are inconsistent with the
meanings of such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions contained in
this Appendix or in any such instrument, certificate or other document shall control.

          (c) The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in an
instrument refer to such instrument as a whole and not to any particular provision or subdivision
thereof; references in an instrument to “Article,” “Section” or another subdivision or to an
attachment are, unless the context otherwise requires, to an article, section or subdivision of or
an attachment to such instrument; and the term “including” means “including without limitation.”

          (d) The definitions contained in this Appendix are equally applicable to both the singular and
plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of
such terms.

          (e) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to below or any agreement or
instrument that is governed by this Appendix means such agreement or instrument or statute as from
time to time amended, modified or supplemented, including (in the case of agreements or
instruments) by assignment, assumption, waiver or consent and (in the case of statutes) by
succession of comparable successor statutes and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments)
references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein. References to a Person
are also to its permitted successors and assigns.

          (f) All dollar amounts calculated hereunder shall be rounded to the nearest penny with one
half of one cent being rounded up to the next penny.

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Definitions

     “Accrual Period” means, with respect to a Distribution Date for a class of Floating
Rate Notes, the period from and including the immediately preceding Distribution Date for such
class of Floating Rate Notes, or in the case of the initial such period, the Closing Date, to but
excluding such current Distribution Date.

     “Act” has the meaning specified in Section 11.03(a) of the Indenture.

     “Actual/360” means that interest is calculated on the basis of the actual number of
days elapsed in a year of 360 days.

     “Additional Principal Distribution Amount” means, as of any Distribution Date after
the last day of the Collection Period on which the Pool Balance has declined to 10% or less of the
Initial Pool Balance, an amount equal to the lesser of (i) amounts available to be distributed on
such Distribution Date after payment of clauses (i) through (xiii) under Section 2.07(c) of the
Administration Agreement and (ii) the Class Note Balance after giving effect to all prior
distributions on that Distribution Date.

     “Administration Agreement” means the Administration Agreement, dated as of September
28, 2006, among the Servicer, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Trustee, the Issuer and
the Depositor, as such agreement may be amended or supplemented.

     “Administration Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12 of the Administration
Agreement.

     “Administrator” means Sallie Mae, Inc., in its capacity as administrator of the Trust
and the Trust Student Loans in accordance with the Administration Agreement.

     “Administrator Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01 of the
Administration Agreement.

     “Administrator’s Certificate” means an Officers’ Certificate of the Administrator
delivered pursuant to Section 3.01(c) of the Administration Agreement.

     “Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person controlling
or controlled by or under common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the
management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of
voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.

     “Asset Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, an amount equal to:

     PB
+ CI - R

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     Where:

     CI = the amount on deposit in the Cash Capitalization Account on the last day
of the related Collection Period less the excess for that Distribution Date of (i)
interest due on the Notes plus any Primary Servicing Fees, Administration Fees, any
Swap Payments owed to the Swap Counterparty by the Trust and any Swap Termination
Payments owed by the Trust to a Swap Counterparty which are pari passu with interest
payments on the Class A Notes due, over (ii) Available Funds on deposit in the
Collection Account. In no case shall CI be less than zero;

     PB = the Pool Balance as of the last day of the related Collection Period; and

     R = the amount to be released from the Cash Capitalization Account pursuant to
section 2.08(a)(viii), (ix) and (x) of the Administration Agreement.

provided, however, that as of the Closing Date, the Asset Balance shall equal
$1,205,435,486 and that, for all Distribution Dates occurring on or after the December 2010
Distribution Date, the Asset Balance will be equal to the Pool Balance as of the last day of the
related Collection Period.

     “Authorized Officer” means (i) with respect to the Trust, any officer of the Trustee
who is authorized to act for the Trustee in matters relating to the Trust pursuant to the Basic
Documents and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Trustee to the
Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to
time thereafter), (ii) with respect to the Administrator, any officer of the Administrator or any
of its Affiliates who is authorized to act for the Administrator in matters relating to itself or
to the Trust and to be acted upon by the Administrator pursuant to the Basic Documents and who is
identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Administrator to the Indenture
Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time
thereafter), (iii) with respect to the Depositor, any officer of the Depositor or any of its
Affiliates who is authorized to act for the Depositor in matters relating to or to be acted upon by
the Depositor pursuant to the Basic Documents and who is identified on the list of Authorized
Officers delivered by the Depositor to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may
be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) and (iv) with respect to the Servicer,
any officer of the Servicer who is authorized to act for the Servicer in matters relating to or to
be acted upon by the Servicer pursuant to the Basic Documents and who is identified on the list of
Authorized Officers delivered by the Servicer to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such
list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter).

     “Available Funds” means, with respect to a Distribution Date or any related Monthly
Servicing Payment Date, the sum of the following amounts for the related Collection Period, or, in
the case of a Monthly Servicing Payment Date, the applicable portion of these amounts: (i) with
respect to the initial distribution date, all amounts deposited into the collection account on the
closing date; (ii) all collections received by the Servicer from borrowers on the Trust Student
Loans, (iii) all Recoveries received during that Collection Period, (iv) the aggregate Purchase
Amounts received during that Collection Period for those Trust Student Loans repurchased by the
Depositor or purchased by the Servicer, VG Funding or SLM Education Credit Finance

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Corporation, (v)
amounts received by the Trust pursuant to the Servicing Agreement during that Collection Period
related to yield or principal adjustments, (vi) Investment Earnings for that Distribution Date and
any interest remitted by the Administrator to the Collection Account prior to such Distribution
Date or Monthly Servicing Payment Date, (vii) amounts received from the Swap Counterparty for that
Distribution Date, (viii) on each Distribution Date, any amounts transferred into the Collection
Account to offset deficiencies due to the Borrower Benefit Yield Reduction pursuant to Section 3.12
of the Servicing Agreement, and (ix) amounts required to be transferred from the Borrower Benefit
Account for such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 2.08A of the Administration Agreement, to
the extent funds are on deposit therein;

     provided, however, that if with respect to any Distribution Date there would not be
sufficient funds to pay all of the items specified in clauses (i) through (xi) of Section 2.07(c)
of the Administration Agreement, after application of Available Funds and application of (a)
amounts available from the Cash Capitalization Account to pay any of the items specified in clauses
(i) through (ix) of Section 2.07(c) of the Administration Agreement and (b) amounts available from
the Reserve Account to pay any of the items specified in clauses (i) through (iv), (vi) and (viii)
and on the respective Note Final Maturity Date of each Class of Notes, clauses (v), (vii) and (ix),
then Available Funds for that Distribution Date shall include, in addition to the Available Funds
as defined above, amounts on deposit in the Collection Account, or amounts held by the
Administrator, or which the Administrator reasonably estimates to be held by the Administrator, for
deposit into the Collection Account which would have constituted Available Funds for the
Distribution Date succeeding such Distribution Date, up to the amount necessary to pay such items,
and the Available Funds for such succeeding Distribution Date shall be adjusted accordingly. In
addition, Available Funds on the Distribution Dates from September 2008 through December 2010
shall include all funds released from the Cash Capitalization Account for deposit into the
Collection Account on those Distribution Dates.

     “Basic Documents” means the Trust Agreement, the Indenture, the Servicing Agreement,
the Administration Agreement, the Purchase Agreements, the Sale Agreement, the Note Depository
Agreement, the Swap Agreements and other documents and certificates delivered in connection with
such documents.

     “Basis Swap Agreement I”, “Basis Swap Agreement II”, “Basis Swap Agreement
III”, and “Basis Swap Agreement IV” mean the applicable ISDA Master Agreement by and
between the Trust and Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc., dated as of September 28, 2006,
including the related schedule and confirmations.

     “Benefit Plan” means (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of
ERISA), whether or not subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in
Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, whether or not subject to Section 4975 of the Code or (iii) any
entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity.

     “Bill of Sale” has the meaning specified in the Purchase Agreements or the Sale
Agreement, as applicable.

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     “Book-Entry Note” means a beneficial interest in the Notes, ownership and transfers of
which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.10 of the
Indenture.

     “Borrower Benefit Account” means the account designated as such, established and
maintained pursuant to Section 2.03(a)(v) of the Administration Agreement.

     “Borrower Benefit Account Initial Deposit” shall mean $0.

     “Borrower Benefit Yield Reduction” has the meaning specified in Section 3.12 of the
Servicing Agreement.

     “Business Day” means (i) with respect to calculating Two-Month LIBOR or Three-Month
LIBOR, any day on which banks in New York, New York and London, England are open for the
transaction of international business; and (ii) for all other purposes, any day other than a
Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in New York, New York
or Wilmington, Delaware are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to remain
closed.

     “Carryover Servicing Fee” has the meaning specified in Attachment A to the Servicing
Agreement.

     “Cash Capitalization Account” means the account designated as such, established and
maintained pursuant to Section 2.03(a)(iii) of the Administration Agreement.

     “Cash Capitalization Account Initial Deposit” means $117,000,000.

     “Certificateholder” means the Excess Distribution Certificateholder.

     “Charged-Off Loan” means a Trust Student Loan which is written-off in accordance with
the Servicer’s policies and procedures, which as of the Closing Date occurs not later than the date
when such Trust Student Loan becomes 270 days past due.

     “Class A Enhancement” means, for any Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Asset
Balance as of the prior Distribution Date (or as of the Closing Date, in the case of the
first Distribution Date) over (ii) the Class A Note Balance before taking into account any
principal distributions to the Class A Notes on the current Distribution Date.

     “Class A Note” means a Class A-1 Note, a Class A-2 Note, a Class A-3 Note, a Class A-4
Note or a Class A-5 Note.

     “Class A Note Balance” means the sum of the Class A-1 Note Balance, the Class A-2 Note
Balance, the Class A-3 Note Balance, the Class A-4 Note Balance and the Class A-5 Note Balance.

     “Class A Note Interest Shortfall” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the
sum for all of the Class A Notes of the excess of (i) the amount of interest that was payable to
the Class A Notes on the preceding Distribution Date over (ii) the amount of interest actually

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distributed with respect to the Class A Notes on such preceding Distribution Date, plus interest on
the amount of such excess interest due to the Class A Noteholders, to the extent permitted by law,
at the weighted average interest rate borne by the Class A Notes from such preceding Distribution
Date to the current Distribution Date.

     “Class A Note Parity Trigger” means with respect to any Distribution Date that (i) the
Class A Note Balance (prior to giving effect to distributions on such date) is in excess of the sum
of (a) the Pool Balance as of the last day of the related Collection Period and (b) amounts on
deposit in the Collection Account and Cash Capitalization Account after payment of items (i)
through (iv) of Section 2.07(c) of the Administration Agreement or (ii) the Class A Note Balance
for such Distribution Date (prior to giving effect to any distributions on that date) is greater
than or equal to the Asset Balance for the prior Distribution Date. The Class A Note
Parity Trigger will remain in effect until the Class A Enhancement is greater than or equal to the
Specified Class A Enhancement.

     “Class A Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A Note is registered in
the Note Register.

     “Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount” means, with respect to any
Distribution Date, the sum of (i) the amount of interest accrued at the Class A-1 Rate, the
Class A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate or the Class A-5 Rate, as applicable, for
the related Accrual Period with respect to all classes of Class A Notes on the aggregate
outstanding principal balances of these classes of Class A Notes (a) on the immediately preceding
Distribution Date after giving effect to all principal distributions to Class A Noteholders on such
preceding Distribution Date or (b) in the case of the first Distribution Date, on the Closing Date;
and (ii) the Class A Note Interest Shortfall for such Distribution Date.

     “Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount” means (a) as of any Distribution
Date prior to the Stepdown Date or on which a Trigger Event is in effect, the lesser of (i) 100% of
the excess, if any, of (x) the Class Note Balance (after taking into account distributions of
principal on the immediately preceding Distribution Date or as of the Closing Date in the case of
the first Distribution Date) over (y) the excess, if any, of (1) the Asset Balance for such
Distribution Date over (2) the Specified Overcollateralization Amount and (ii) the Class A Note
Balance immediately before such Distribution Date and (b) on or after the Stepdown Date and as long
as a Trigger Event is not in effect for such Distribution Date, the excess, if any, of (x) the
Class A Note Balance immediately prior to such Distribution Date over (y) the lesser of (A)
the product of (i) 85.0% and (ii) the Asset Balance as of such Distribution Date and (B) the
excess, if any, of the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date over the Specified
Overcollateralization Amount. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or after the Class A-1 Maturity
Date, the Class A-2 Maturity Date, the Class A-3 Maturity Date, the Class A-4 Maturity Date or the
Class A-5 Maturity Date, as applicable, the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount
shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the Class A-1 Note Balance, Class A-2
Note Balance, Class A-3 Note Balance, Class A-4 Note Balance or Class A-5 Note Balance, as
applicable, to zero.

     “Class A-1 Maturity Date” means the March 15, 2018 Distribution Date.

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     “Class A-1 Note Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A-1 Notes.

     “Class A-1 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-1 Note is registered
in the Note Register.

     “Class A-1 Notes” means the $157,000,000 Floating Rate Class A-1 Student Loan-Backed
Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1
thereto.

     “Class A-1 Rate” means, for any Accrual Period after the initial Accrual Period,
Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the related LIBOR Determination Date, plus 0.01%, based on an
Actual/360 accrual method. For the initial Accrual Period, the Class A-1 Rate shall mean the
Initial Accrual Rate plus 0.01%, based on an Actual/360 accrual method.

     “Class A-2 Maturity Date” means the September 15, 2020 Distribution Date.

     “Class A-2 Note Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A-2 Notes.

     “Class A-2 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-2 Note is registered
in the Note Register.

     “Class A-2 Notes” means the $268,000,000 Floating Rate Class A-2 Student Loan-Backed
Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2
thereto.

     “Class A-2 Rate” means, for any Accrual Period after the initial Accrual Period,
Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the related LIBOR Determination Date, plus 0.05%, based on an
Actual/360 accrual method. For the initial Accrual Period, the Class A-2 Rate shall mean the
Initial Accrual Rate plus 0.05%, based on an Actual/360 accrual method.

     “Class A-3 Maturity Date” means the June 15, 2021 Distribution Date.

     “Class A-3 Note Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A-3 Notes.

     “Class A-3 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-3 Note is registered
in the Note Register.

     “Class A-3 Notes” means the $110,000,000 Floating Rate Class A-3 Student Loan-Backed
Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3
thereto.

     “Class A-3 Rate” means, for any Accrual Period after the initial Accrual Period,
Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the related LIBOR Determination Date, plus 0.13%, based on

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an
Actual/360 accrual method. For the initial Accrual Period, the Class A-3 Rate shall mean the
Initial Accrual Rate plus 0.13%, based on an Actual/360 accrual method.

     “Class A-4 Maturity Date” means the March 15, 2023 Distribution Date.

     “Class A-4 Note Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A-4 Notes.

     “Class A-4 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-4 Note is registered
in the Note Register.

     “Class A-4 Notes” means the $215,000,000 Floating Rate Class A-4 Student Loan-Backed
Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4
thereto.

     “Class A-4 Rate” means, for any Accrual Period after the initial Accrual Period,
Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the related LIBOR Determination Date, plus 0.17%, based on an
Actual/360 accrual method. For the initial Accrual Period, the Class A-4 Rate shall mean the
Initial Accrual Rate plus 0.17%, based on an Actual/360 accrual method.

     “Class A-5 Maturity Date” means the December 15, 2039 Distribution Date.

     “Class A-5 Note Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Outstanding
Amount of the Class A-5 Notes.

     “Class A-5 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-5 Note is registered
in the Note Register.

     “Class A-5 Notes” means the $356,017,000 Floating Rate Class A-5 Student Loan-Backed
Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-5
thereto.

     “Class A-5 Rate” means, for any Accrual Period after the initial Accrual Period,
Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the related LIBOR Determination Date, plus 0.24%, based on an
Actual/360 accrual method. For the initial Accrual Period, the Class A-5 Rate shall mean the
Initial Accrual Rate plus 0.24%, based on an Actual/360 accrual method.

     “Class B Enhancement” means for any Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Asset
Balance as of the prior Distribution Date (or as of the Closing Date, in the case of the first
Distribution Date) over (ii) the Class A Note Balance and the Class B Note Balance before taking
into account any principal distributions on the current Distribution Date.

     “Class B Maturity Date” means the December 15, 2039 Distribution Date.

     “Class B Note Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Outstanding
Amount of the Class B Notes.

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     “Class B Note Interest Shortfall” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the
excess of (i) the Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount on the preceding Distribution
Date over (ii) the amount of interest actually distributed to the Class B Noteholders on that
preceding Distribution Date, plus interest on the amount of that excess, to the extent permitted by
law, at the Class B Rate from that preceding Distribution Date to the current Distribution Date.

     “Class B Note Parity Trigger” means with respect to any Distribution Date that (i) the
outstanding Class A Note Balance and Class B Note Balance (prior to giving effect to any
distributions on such date) is in excess of the sum of (a) the Pool Balance as of the last day of
the related Collection Period and (b) amounts on deposit in the Collection Account, Principal
Distribution Account and Cash Capitalization Account after payment of clauses (i) through (vi)
under Section 2.07(c) of the Administration Agreement, or (ii) the Class A Note Balance and the
Class B Note Balance as of the related Distribution Date (prior to giving effect to any
distributions on that date) is greater than or equal to the Asset Balance for the prior
Distribution Date. The Class B Note Parity Trigger will remain in effect until the Class B
Enhancement is greater than or equal to the Specified Class B Enhancement.

     “Class B Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class B Note is registered in
the Note Register.

     “Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount” means, with respect to any
Distribution Date, the sum of (a) the amount of interest accrued at the Class B Rate for the
related Accrual Period on the Class B Note Balance (i) on the immediately preceding Distribution
Date, after giving effect to all principal distributions to Class B Noteholders on that preceding
Distribution Date or (ii) in the case of the first Distribution Date, the Closing Date, and (b) the
Class B Note Interest Shortfall for that Distribution Date.

     “Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount” means, as of any
Distribution Date on or after the Stepdown Date and as long as a Trigger Event is not in effect
on such Distribution Date, the excess, if any, of (x) the sum of (i) the Class A Note Balance
(after taking into account the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount due on such
Distribution Date) and (ii) the Class B Note Balance immediately prior to such Distribution Date
over (y) the lesser of (A) the product of (i) 89.875% and (ii) the Asset Balance for such
Distribution Date and (B) the excess, if any, of the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date over
the Specified Overcollateralization Amount. Prior to the Stepdown Date or on any Distribution Date
for which a Trigger Event is in effect, the excess, if any, of (i) the amounts in clause (a)(i) of
the definition of the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount over (ii) the Class A Note
Balance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or after the Class B Maturity Date, the Class B
Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to
reduce the Class B Note Balance to zero.

     “Class B Notes” means the $39,177,000 Floating Rate Class B Student Loan-Backed Notes
issued by the Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-6 thereto.

     “Class B Rate” means, for any Accrual Period after the initial Accrual Period,
Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the related LIBOR Determination Date, plus 0.31%, based on

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an
Actual/360 accrual method. For the initial Accrual Period, the Class B Rate shall mean the Initial
Accrual Rate plus 0.31%, based on an Actual/360 accrual method.

     “Class C Enhancement” means, for any Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Asset
Balance as of the prior Distribution Date (or as of the Closing Date, in the case of the first
Distribution Date) over (ii) the Class Note Balance before taking into account any principal
distributions on the current Distribution Date.

     “Class C Maturity Date” means the December 15, 2039 Distribution Date.

     “Class C Note Balance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Outstanding
Amount of the Class C Notes.

     “Class C Note Interest Shortfall” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the
excess of (i) the Class C Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount on the preceding Distribution
Date over (ii) the amount of interest actually distributed to the Class C Noteholders on that
preceding Distribution Date, plus interest on the amount of that excess, to the extent permitted by
law, at the Class C Rate from that preceding Distribution Date to the current Distribution Date.

     “Class C Note Parity Trigger” means with respect to any Distribution Date that (i) the
Class A Note Balance, Class B Note Balance and Class C Note Balance (prior to giving effect to any
distributions on such date) is in excess of the sum of (a) Pool Balance as of the last day of the
related Collection Period and (b) amounts on deposit in the Collection Account, Principal
Distribution Account and Cash Capitalization Account after payment of clauses (i) through (viii)
under Section 2.07(c) of the Administration Agreement, or (ii) the Class Note Balance as of the
related Distribution Date (prior to giving effect to any distributions on that date) is greater
than or equal to the Asset Balance for the prior Distribution Date. The Class C Note
Parity Trigger will remain in effect until the Class C Enhancement is greater than or equal to the
Specified Class C Enhancement.

     “Class C Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class C Note is registered in
the Note Register.

     “Class C Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount” means, with respect to any
Distribution Date, the sum of (i) the amount of interest accrued at the Class C Rate for the
related Accrual Period (a) on the Class C Note Balance on the immediately preceding Distribution
Date after giving effect to all principal distributions to Class C Noteholders on that preceding
Distribution Date or (b) in the case of the first Distribution Date, the Closing Date and (ii) the
Class C Note Interest Shortfall for that Distribution Date.

     “Class C Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount” means, as of any Distribution
Date on or after the Stepdown Date and, as long as a Trigger Event is not in effect on such
Distribution Date, the excess, if any, of (x) the sum of (i) the Class A Note Balance (after taking
into account the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount due on such Distribution Date),
(ii) the Class B Note Balance (after taking into account the Class B Noteholders’ Principal
Distribution Amount due on such Distribution Date) and (iii) the Class C Note Balance

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immediately
prior to such Distribution Date over (y) the lesser of (A) the product of (i) 97.0% and (ii) the
Asset Balance as of such Distribution Date and (B) the excess, if any, of the related Asset Balance
for such Distribution Date over the Specified Overcollateralization Amount. Prior to the
Stepdown Date or on any Distribution Date with respect to which a Trigger Event is in effect, the
excess, if any, of (i) amounts in clause (a)(i) of the definition of the Class A Noteholders’
Principal Distribution Amount over (ii) the Class A Note Balance plus the Class B Note Balance.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or after the Class C Maturity Date, the Class C Noteholders’
Principal Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the
Class C Note Balance to zero.

     “Class C Notes” means the $54,245,000 Floating Rate Class C Student Loan-Backed Notes
issued by the Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-7 thereto.

     “Class C Rate” means, for any Accrual Period after the initial Accrual Period,
Three-Month LIBOR, as determined on the related LIBOR Determination Date, plus 0.39%, based on an
Actual/360 accrual method. For the initial Accrual Period, the Class C Rate shall mean the Initial
Accrual Rate plus 0.39%, based on an Actual/360 accrual method.

     “Class Note Balance” means the sum of the Class A Note Balance, the Class B Note
Balance and the Class C Note Balance.

     “Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to
Section 17A of the Exchange Act. The initial Clearing Agency shall be The Depository Trust Company
and the initial nominee for the Clearing Agency shall be Cede & Co.

     “Clearing Agency Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry
transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

     “Closing Date” means September 28, 2006.

     “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “Collateral” has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of the Indenture.

     “Collection Account” means the account designated as such, established and maintained
pursuant to Section 2.03(a)(i) of the Administration Agreement.

     “Collection Account Initial Deposit” means $1,300,000.

     “Collection Period” means, with respect to the first Distribution Date, the period
beginning on the Cutoff Date and ending on November 30, 2006 and with respect to each subsequent
Distribution Date, the Collection Period means the three calendar months immediately following the
end of the previous Collection Period.

     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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     “Controlling Note” means so long as any of the Class A Notes are Outstanding, the
Class A Notes (voting together as a single class), if the Class A Notes have been paid in full,
the Class B Notes and if the Class B Notes have been paid in full, the Class C Notes.

     “Corporate Trust Office” means (i) with respect to the Indenture Trustee, the
principal office of the Indenture Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered, which office at the Closing Date is located at 101 Barclay Street,
8 West, New York, New York 10286 Attention: Corporate Trust Administration (telephone: (212)
827-8562; facsimile: (212) 815-3883) or at such other address as the Indenture Trustee may
designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Depositor, or the principal
corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee (the address of which the successor
Indenture Trustee will notify the Noteholders, the Administrator and the Depositor) and (ii) with
respect to the Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee located at Christiana
Center/OPS4, 500 Stanton Christiana Road, Newark, Delaware 19713, Attention: Corporate Trust
Department (telephone: (302) 552-6279; facsimile: (302) 552-6280); or at such other address as the
Trustee may designate by notice to the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust office of any
successor Trustee (the address of which the successor Trustee will notify the Administrator and the
Depositor).

     “Cumulative Realized Losses Test” is satisfied for any Distribution Date on
which the cumulative principal amount of Charged-Off Loans, net of Recoveries is equal to or less
than the percentage of the Initial Pool Balance set forth below for the specified period:

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Percentage of
	Distribution Date	 	Initial Pool Balance
	Closing Date through September 2011
Distribution Date
	 	 	15	%
	December 2011 Distribution Date
through September 2014 Distribution
Date
	 	 	18	%
	December 2014 Distribution Date and
thereafter
	 	 	20	%

     “Cutoff Date” means the Closing Date, and with respect to any substituted Trust
Student Loans, the date used in determining the Principal Balance and accrued interest to be
capitalized for purposes of completing the loan transmittal summary form under the Sale Agreement.

     “Default” means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default.

     “Definitive Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10 of the Indenture.

     “Delaware Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38 of Title 12, Part V of the Delaware
Code, entitled “Treatment of Delaware Statutory Trusts.”

     “Delivery” when used with respect to Trust Account Property means:

     (a) with respect to bankers’ acceptances, commercial paper, negotiable certificates of deposit
and other obligations that constitute “instruments” within the meaning of Section 9-102(a)(47)

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of
the UCC and are susceptible of physical delivery, transfer thereof to the Indenture Trustee or its
nominee or custodian by physical delivery to the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian
endorsed to, or registered in the name of, the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian or
endorsed in blank, and, with respect to a certificated security (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(3)
of the UCC) transfer thereof (i) by delivery of such certificated security endorsed to, or
registered in the name of, the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian or endorsed in blank
to a securities intermediary (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the UCC) and the making by
such securities intermediary of entries on its books and records identifying such certificated
securities as belonging to the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian and the sending by
such securities intermediary of a confirmation of the purchase of such certificated security by the
Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian, or (ii) by delivery thereof to a “clearing
corporation” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(5) of the UCC) and the making by such clearing
corporation of appropriate entries on its books reducing the appropriate securities account of the
transferor and increasing the appropriate securities account of a securities intermediary by the
amount of such certificated security, the identification by the clearing corporation of the
certificated securities for the sole and exclusive account of the securities intermediary, the
maintenance of such certificated securities by such clearing corporation or the nominee of either
subject to the clearing corporation’s exclusive control, the sending of a confirmation by the
securities intermediary of the purchase by the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or custodian of
such securities and the making by such securities intermediary of entries on its books and records
identifying such certificated securities as belonging to the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or
custodian (all of the foregoing, but not including Trust Student Loans, “Physical Property”); and
such additional or alternative procedures as may hereafter become appropriate to effect the
complete transfer of ownership of any such Trust Account Property to the Indenture Trustee or its
nominee or custodian, consistent with changes in applicable law or regulations or the
interpretation thereof;

     (b) with respect to any security issued by the U.S. Treasury, the Government National Mortgage
Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or by the Federal National Mortgage
Association that is a book-entry security held at a Federal Reserve Bank pursuant to Federal
book-entry regulations, the following procedures, all in accordance with applicable law, including
applicable Federal regulations and Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC: the crediting of such book-entry
security to an appropriate book-entry account of the Indenture Trustee or its nominee or the
custodian or securities intermediary at a Federal Reserve Bank, causing the custodian to
continuously indicate by book-entry such book-entry security as credited to the relevant book-entry
account, the continuous crediting of such book-entry security to a securities account of the
custodian at such Federal Reserve Bank and the continuous identification of such book-entry
security by the custodian as credited to the appropriate book-entry account; and

     (c) with respect to any item of Trust Account Property that is an uncertificated security
under Article 8 of the UCC and that is not governed by clause (b) above, registration on the books
and records of the issuer thereof in the name of the securities intermediary, the sending of a
confirmation by the securities intermediary of the purchase by the Indenture Trustee or its nominee
or custodian of such uncertificated security, the making by such securities intermediary of entries
on its books and records identifying such uncertificated certificates as belonging to the Indenture
Trustee or its nominee or custodian.

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     “Depositor” means SLM Funding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

     “Depository Agreement” means the Note Depository Agreement.

     “Determination Date” means, with respect to the Collection Period preceding any
Distribution Date, one Business Day preceding such Distribution Date.

     “Distribution Date” means the 15th day of each March, June, September and
December, or, if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day, commencing
on December 15, 2006.

     “Eligible Deposit Account” means either (a) a segregated account with an Eligible
Institution or (b) a segregated trust account with the corporate trust department of a depository
institution organized under the laws of the United States of America or any one of the States or
the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), having corporate trust powers
and acting as trustee for funds deposited in such account, so long as any of the securities of such
depository institution have a credit rating from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, in one of
their generic rating categories which signifies investment grade.

     “Eligible Institution” means a depository institution organized under the laws of the
United States of America or any one of the States or the District of Columbia (or any domestic
branch of a foreign bank) (i) which has (A) either a long-term senior unsecured debt rating of
“AAA” or a short-term senior unsecured debt or certificate of deposit rating of “A-1+” or better by
Standard & Poor’s and (B)(1) a long-term senior unsecured debt rating of “A1” or better and (2) a
short-term senior unsecured debt rating of “P-1” or better by Moody’s, and (C) a long-term senior
unsecured debt rating of “AA” or a short-term senior unsecured debt rating of “F1+” by Fitch, or
any other long-term, short-term or certificate of deposit rating with respect to which the Rating
Agency Condition has been satisfied and (ii) whose deposits are insured by the FDIC. If so
qualified, the Trustee or the Indenture Trustee may be considered an Eligible Institution.

     “Eligible Investments” means book-entry securities, negotiable instruments or
securities represented by instruments in bearer or registered form which evidence:

          (a) direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as to timely payment by, the
United States of America, the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, the Federal National Mortgage Association, or any agency or instrumentality
of the United States of America the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of
the United States of America; provided that obligations of, or guaranteed by, the Government
National Mortgage Association (GNMA), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) or
the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) shall be Eligible Investments only if, at
the time of investment, they meet the criteria of each of the Rating Agencies for collateral for
securities having ratings equivalent to the respective ratings of the Notes in effect at the
Closing Date;

          (b) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit of any depository institution
or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any State (or any
domestic branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and examination by Federal or state
banking or depository institution authorities (including depository receipts issued

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by any such
institution or trust company as custodian with respect to any obligation referred to in clause (a)
above or portion of such obligation for the benefit of the holders of such depository receipts);
provided that at the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein
(which shall be deemed to be made again each time funds are reinvested following each Distribution
Date), the commercial paper or other short-term senior unsecured debt obligations (other than such
obligations the rating of which is based on the credit of a Person other than such depository
institution or trust company) thereof shall have a credit rating from each of the Rating Agencies
in the highest investment category granted thereby;

          (c) commercial paper having, at the time of the investment, a rating from each of the Rating
Agencies in the highest investment category granted thereby;

          (d) investments in money market funds having a rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the
highest investment category granted thereby (including funds for which the Indenture Trustee, the
Administrator or the Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates is investment manager or
advisor);

          (e) bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company referred to in
clause (b) above;

          (f) repurchase obligations with respect to any security that is a direct obligation of, or
fully guaranteed by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof the
obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America, in
either case entered into with a depository institution or trust company (acting as principal)
described in clause (b) above;

          (g) asset-backed securities, including asset-backed securities issued by Affiliates, or
entities formed by Affiliates, of SLM Corporation, but excluding mortgage-backed securities, that
at the time of investment have a rating in the highest investment category granted by each of the
Rating Agencies, but not at a purchase price in excess of par;

          (h) Eligible Repurchase Obligations; and

          (i) any other investment which would not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of any rating
of the Notes by any of the Rating Agencies as affirmed by the Rating Agencies in a writing
delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

     For purposes of the definition of “Eligible Investments” the phrase “highest investment
category” means (i) in the case of Fitch, “AAA” for long-term investments (or the equivalent) and
“F-1+” for short-term investments (or the equivalent), (ii) in the case of Moody’s, “Aaa” for
long-term investments (or the equivalent) and “P-1” for short-term investments (or the equivalent),
and (iii) in the case of S&P, “AAA” for long-term investments (or the equivalent) and “A-1+” for
short-term investments (or the equivalent). A proposed investment not rated by Fitch but rated in
the highest investment category by Moody’s and S&P shall be considered to be rated by each of the
Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted thereby.

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     “Eligible Loans” has the meaning specified in the Sale Agreement or the Purchase
Agreements, as applicable.

     “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01 of the Indenture.

     “EXCEL Loan” means an EXCEL®, Student EXCEL®, EXCEL Select, EXCEL Custom®, EXCEL
Education Loan (sm), EXCEL Grad Loan (sm) , EXCEL
Preferred®, GRADEXCEL®, GradEXCEL Preferred, and GradEXCEL Custom Program loan originated under the
EXCEL Loan Program, LawEXCEL Loan Program, MBA EXCEL Loan Program, or MD EXCEL Loan Program.

     “Excess Distribution Certificate” means the certificate, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.

     “Excess Distribution Certificate Paying Agent” means any paying agent or co-paying
agent appointed pursuant to Section 3.03(g) of the Trust Agreement, which shall initially be the
Indenture Trustee.

     “Excess Distribution Certificate Register” and “Excess Distribution Certificate
Registrar” mean the register mentioned and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.03(c)
of the Trust Agreement.

     “Excess Distribution Certificateholder” means the person in whose name an Excess
Distribution Certificate is registered in the Excess Distribution Certificate Register.

     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

     “Expenses” means any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims,
actions and suits, and any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including
reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever which may at any time be
imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Trustee or any of its officers, directors or
agents in any way relating to or arising out of the Trust Agreement, the other Basic Documents, the
Trust Estate, the administration of the Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Trustee under
the Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents.

     “Executive Officer” means, with respect to any corporation, the Chief Executive
Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, any Executive Vice President,
any Senior Vice President, any Vice President, the Secretary or the Treasurer of such corporation;
and with respect to any partnership, any general partner thereof.

     “FDIC” means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

     “Federal Funds Rate” for any day means the rate set forth for such day opposite the
caption “Federal Funds (effective)” in the weekly statistical release designated H.15(519), or any
successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. If such
rate is not published in the relevant H.15(519) for any day, the rate for such day shall be the

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arithmetic mean of the rates for the last transaction in overnight Federal Funds arranged prior to
9:00 a.m. New York City time on that day by each of four leading brokers in such transactions
located in New York City selected by the Administrator. The Federal Funds rate for each Saturday
and Sunday and for any other that is not a Business Day shall be the Federal Funds Rate for the
preceding Business Day as determined above.

     “First Priority Principal Distribution Amount” means, with respect to any Distribution
Date, an amount not less than zero equal to:

     AN – AB

     Where:

     AN = the Class A Note Balance on (i) the immediately preceding Distribution
Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Class A Notes on
such preceding Distribution Date) or (ii) in the case of the first Distribution
Date, on the Closing Date;

     AB = the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date;

     provided, however, that:

	 	(a)	 	if a Class A Note Parity Trigger is in effect, then the First Priority
Principal Distribution Amount shall equal the Class A Noteholders’ Principal
Distribution Amount;
	 
	 	(b)	 	on or after the Class A-1 Maturity Date, the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the
Class A-1 Note Balance to zero;
	 
	 	(c)	 	on or after the Class A-2 Maturity Date, the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the
Class A-2 Note Balance to zero;
	 
	 	(d)	 	on or after the Class A-3 Maturity Date, the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the
Class A-3 Note Balance to zero;
	 
	 	(e)	 	on or after the Class A-4 Maturity Date, the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the
Class A-4 Note Balance to zero; and
	 
	 	(f)	 	on or after the Class A-5 Maturity Date, the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the
Class A-5 Note Balance to zero.

     “Fitch” means Fitch, Inc. (also known as Fitch Ratings).

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     “Floating Rate Notes” means the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3
Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class A-5 Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes.

     “Funding Interim Trust Agreement” means the Interim Trust Agreement, dated as of
September 28, 2006, between the Depositor and the Interim Trustee.

     “GLB Regulations” means the Joint Banking Agencies’ Privacy of Consumer Financial
Information, Final Rule (12 CFR Parts 40, 216, 332 and 573) or the Federal Trade Commission’s
Privacy of Consumer Financial Information, Final Rule (16 CFR Part 313), as applicable,
implementing Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Public Law 106-102, as amended.

     “Grant” means mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise, release,
convey, assign, transfer, create and grant a lien upon and a security interest in and right of
set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral
or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of
the obligations) of the Granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to
claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the
Collateral and all other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other
communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring
Proceedings in the name of the Granting party or otherwise and generally to do and receive anything
that the Granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

     “Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of September 1, 2006, between the Trust and
the Indenture Trustee.

     “Indenture Trust Estate” means all money, instruments, rights and other property that
are subject or intended to be subject to the lien and security interest of the Indenture for the
benefit of the Noteholders (including all property and interests Granted to the Indenture Trustee),
including all proceeds thereof.

     “Indenture Trustee” means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, not in
its individual capacity but solely as trustee under the Indenture.

     “Independent” means, when used with respect to any specified Person, that the Person
(a) is in fact independent of the Trust, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor and any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (b) does not have any direct financial interest or any
material indirect financial interest in the Trust, any such other obligor, the Depositor or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the Trust, any such other
obligor, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee,
promoter, underwriter, placement agent, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar
functions.

     “Independent Certificate” means a certificate or opinion to be delivered to the
Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the
applicable requirements of Section 11.01 of the Indenture, made by an Independent appraiser or
other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of
reasonable care, and such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the
definition of “Independent” in the Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning
thereof.

Appendix A-18

 

     “Index Maturity” means, with respect to any Accrual Period, a period of time equal to,
three months or two months, as applicable, commencing on the first day of that Accrual Period.

     “Initial Accrual Rate” means for each class of Notes and the Accrual Period commencing
on the Closing Date to, but excluding, the first Distribution Date, the rate per annum as
determined on the related Determination Date, as follows:

     x + [ 17 / 30 * (y – x)]

     where:

x = Two-Month LIBOR, and

y = Three-Month LIBOR.

     “Initial Pool Balance” means the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date, which is
$1,088,435,486.

     “Insolvency Event” means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) the filing of a
decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of such Person
or any substantial part of its property in an involuntary case under any applicable Federal or
state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such
Person or for any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of
such Person’s affairs, which decree or order remains unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or (b) the commencement by such Person of a voluntary case under any applicable
Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the
consent by such Person to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such
law, or the consent by such Person to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for such Person or for
any substantial part of its property, or the making by such Person of any general assignment for
the benefit of creditors, or the failure by such Person generally to pay its debts as such debts
become due, or the taking of action by such Person in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

     “Insolvency Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01(b) of the
Administration Agreement.

     “Interim Trustee” means Chase Bank USA, National Association, a national banking
association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Interim Trustee under the Interim Trust
Agreement. “Interim Trustee” shall also mean each successor Interim Trustee as of the
qualification of such Interim Trustee under the Interim Trust Agreement.

     “Interim Trust Agreement” means the Funding Interim Trust Agreement and the VG Funding
Interim Trust Agreement.

     “Interim Trust Loans” has the meaning set forth in the Interim Trust Agreement.

     “Investment Earnings” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the investment
earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) on amounts on deposit in the Trust Accounts

Appendix A-19

 

(other
than the Borrower Benefit Account) to be deposited into the Collection Account on or prior to
such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 2.03(b) of the Administration Agreement.

     “Issuer” means the Trust and, for purposes of any provision contained in the Indenture
and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the Notes.

     “Issuer Order” and “Issuer Request” means a written order or request signed in
the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture
Trustee.

     “LawEXCEL Loans” means LawEXCEL, LawEXCEL Preferred, LawEXCEL Custom, B&B EXCEL Custom
and EXCEL GradExtension Loan (SM) .

     “Law Loan” means loans originated under the LawEXCEL Loans and LAWLOANS Program.

     “LIBOR” means Two-Month LIBOR or Three-Month LIBOR, as applicable.

     “LIBOR Determination Date” means, for each Accrual Period, the second Business Day
before the beginning of that Accrual Period.

     “Lien” means a security interest, lien, charge, pledge, equity or encumbrance of any
kind, other than tax liens and any other liens, if any, which attach to the respective Trust
Student Loan by operation of law as a result of any act or omission by the related Obligor.

     “Liquidating Distribution” means the amount of any distribution to the Depositor in
connection with the termination of the Trust under Section 9.01(a) of the Trust Agreement.

     “Luxembourg Listing Agent” means, initially, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg SA.

     “Luxembourg Paying Agent” means, initially, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg SA.

     “MBA EXCEL Loans” means the MBA EXCEL, MBA EXCEL Preferred and MBA EXCEL Loans.

     “MBA Loan” means a loan originated under the MBA EXCEL Loans Program or an MBA Loan®.

     “MD EXCEL Loans” means a MDEXCEL, R&R EXCEL Custom, MED EXCEL Preferred, Med EXCEL
Custom, Med EXCEL, R&R EXCEL, R&R EXCEL Preferred, R&R EXCEL Custom, EXCEL Grad Extension Loan R&R,
Dental EXCEL Preferred, and Dental EXCEL Custom Loan.

     “Medical Loan” means a loan originated under the MD EXCEL Loans Program or a MEDLOAN.

     “Minimum Purchase Amount” means an amount that would be sufficient to (i) reduce the
Outstanding Amount of each class of Notes on such Distribution Date to zero and, (ii) pay to the
respective Noteholders the Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount, the Class B

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Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount and the Class C Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount
payable on such Distribution Date.

     “Monthly Servicing Payment Date” means the 15th day of each calendar month or, if such
day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day, commencing on October 16,
2006.

     “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

     “Note Depository Agreement” means the Letter of Representations, dated September 28,
2006, among the Trust, the Trustee and the Indenture Trustee in favor of the Depository Trust
Company.

     “Note Final Maturity Date” for a class of Notes means the Class A-1 Maturity Date, the
Class A-2 Maturity Date, the Class A-3 Maturity Date, the Class A-4 Maturity Date, the Class A-5
Maturity Date, the Class B Maturity Date or the Class C Maturity Date, as applicable.

     “Note Interest Shortfall” means the Class A Note Interest Shortfall, the Class B Note
Interest Shortfall and/or the Class C Note Interest Shortfall, as applicable.

     “Note Owner” means, with respect to a Book-Entry Note, the Person who is the owner of
such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on the books of the applicable Clearing Agency, or on the books
of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency
Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).

     “Note Pool Factor” as of the close of business on a Distribution Date means a
seven-digit decimal figure equal to the Outstanding Amount of a class of Notes divided by the
original Outstanding Amount of such class of Notes. The Note Pool Factor for each class will be
1.0000000 as of the Closing Date; thereafter, the Note Pool Factor for each class will decline to
reflect reductions in the Outstanding Amount of that class of Notes.

     “Note Rates” means, with respect to any Accrual Period, the Class A-1 Rate, the Class
A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate, the Class A-5 Rate, the Class B Rate and the
Class C Rate for such Accrual Period, collectively.

     “Note Register” and “Note Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in
Section 2.04 of the Indenture.

     “Noteholder” or “Holder” means either a Class A Noteholder, a Class B
Noteholder or a Class C Noteholder, as the context requires.

     “Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount” means the Class A Noteholders’ Interest
Distribution Amount, the Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount and the Class C
Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount.

Appendix A-21

 

     “Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount” means the Class A Noteholders’ Principal
Distribution Amount, the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount and the Class C
Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount.

     “Notes” means the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class
A-4 Notes, the Class A-5 Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes, collectively.

     “Obligor” on a Trust Student Loan means the borrower or co-borrowers of such Trust
Student Loan and any other Person who owes payments in respect of such Trust Student Loan.

     “Officers’ Certificate” means (i) in the case of the Trust, a certificate signed by
any two Authorized Officers of the Trustee, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01 of the Indenture, and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee, and (ii) in the case of the Depositor, the Administrator or the Servicer, a
certificate signed by any two Authorized Officers of the Depositor, the Administrator or the
Servicer, as applicable.

     “Operating Agreement” means the Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement of the
Depositor, as such agreement may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

     “Opinion of Counsel” means (i) with respect to the Trust, one or more written opinions
of counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Indenture, be employees of or
counsel to the Trustee, the Trust, the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor and who shall be
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and which opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the
Indenture Trustee as Indenture Trustee, shall comply with any applicable requirements of Section
11.01 of the Indenture and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee,
and (ii) with respect to the Depositor, the Administrator or the Servicer, one or more written
opinions of counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to the Depositor, the Administrator or the
Servicer, which counsel shall be acceptable to the Indenture Trustee and the Trustee.

     “Outstanding” means, as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore
authenticated and delivered under the Indenture except (i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note
Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation, (ii) Notes or portions thereof, for
which payment has been made to the applicable Noteholders in reduction of the outstanding principal
balance thereof or for which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Noteholders thereof (provided,
however, that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to the Indenture), and (iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes which
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser;
provided, that in determining whether the Noteholders of the requisite Outstanding Amount
of the Notes have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder or under any other Basic Document, Notes owned by the Trust, any other obligor upon the
Notes, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Indenture Trustee shall be
protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only

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Notes that a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee either actually knows to be
so owned or has received written notice thereof shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have
been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Notes and
that the pledgee is not the Trust, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor or any Affiliate
of any of the foregoing Persons.

     “Outstanding Amount” means the aggregate principal amount of all (or, if specified, a
subset of) Notes Outstanding at the date of determination.

     “Paying Agent” means the Indenture Trustee or any other Person that meets the
eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in Section 6.11 of the Indenture and is
authorized by the Trustee on behalf of the Trust to make the payments to and distributions from the
Collection Account and payments of principal of and interest and any other amounts owing on the
Notes on behalf of the Trust.

     “Person” means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated
organization, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or government or any agency
or political subdivision thereof.

     “Physical Property” has the meaning assigned to such terms in the definition of
“Delivery” above.

     “Pool Balance” means, as of the last day of a Collection Period, the aggregate
principal balance of the Trust Student Loans as of the beginning of such Collection Period,
including accrued interest as of the beginning of such Collection Period, that is expected to be
capitalized, plus interest that accrues during such Collection Period that are capitalized or are
to be capitalized and which were not included in the prior Pool Balance, as reduced by (i) all
payments received by the Trust through the last day of such Collection Period from Obligors (other
than Recoveries), (ii) all amounts received by the Trust through that date from purchases of the
Trust Student Loans by SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation, VG Funding or the Servicer, (iii)
the aggregate principal balance of all Trust Student Loans that became Charged-Off Loans during
such Collection Period, and (iv) the amount of any adjustments to balances of the Trust Student
Loans that the Servicer makes under the Servicing Agreement through the last day of such Collection
Period. The principal balance of a Trust Student Loan that became a Charged-Off Loan during a
prior Collection Period shall be deemed to be zero.

     “Predecessor Note” means, with respect to any particular Note, every previous Note
evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for
the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.05 of the
Indenture and in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence
the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.

     “Primary Servicing Fee” for any Monthly Servicing Payment Date has the meaning
specified in Attachment A to the Servicing Agreement, and shall include any such fees from prior
Monthly Servicing Payment Dates that remain unpaid.

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     “Principal Distribution Account” means the account designated as such, established and
maintained pursuant to Section 2.03(a)(iv) of the Administration Agreement.

     “Principal Distribution Amount” means the sum of the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount, the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Third Priority
Principal Distribution Amount, and the Regular Principal Distribution Amount for a Distribution
Date.

     “Proceeding” means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or
administrative proceeding.

     “Program” means one of the loan programs under which a Medical Loan, MBA Loan, Law
Loan, Signature Student Loan or EXCEL Loan was originated.

     “Purchase Agreement” means either the SLM ECFC Purchase Agreement or the VG Funding
Purchase Agreement.

     “Purchase Amount” with respect to any Trust Student Loan means the amount required to
prepay in full such Trust Student Loan under the terms thereof including all accrued interest
thereon.

     “Purchased Student Loan” means a Trust Student Loan which is, as of the close of
business on the last, day of a Collection Period, purchased by the Servicer pursuant to Section
3.05 of the Servicing Agreement or repurchased by the Depositor pursuant to Section 6.01 of the
Sale Agreement or purchased by the Sellers pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Purchase Agreements.

     “Rating Agency” means Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. If any such organization
or successor thereto is no longer in existence, “Rating Agency” with respect to such organization
shall be a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or other comparable Person
designated by the Administrator, notice of which designation shall be given to the Indenture
Trustee, the Trustee and the Servicer.

     “Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any action, that each Rating Agency
shall have been given 10 days’ prior notice thereof and that each of the Rating Agencies shall have
notified the Administrator, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Indenture Trustee in writing that
such action will not result in and of itself in a reduction or withdrawal of the then current
rating of any of the Notes.

     “Record Date” means, with respect to a Distribution Date or Redemption Date,
the close of business on the day preceding such Distribution Date or Redemption Date.

     “Recoveries” means, as of any date of determination, all amounts received by the Trust
in respect of a Charged-Off Loan after such Trust Student Loan became a Charged-Off Loan.

     “Redemption Date” means in the case of a payment to Noteholders pursuant to Section
10.01 of the Indenture, the Distribution Date specified pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture.

Appendix A-24

 

     “Redemption Price” means an amount equal to the Class Note Balance, plus accrued and
unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Note Rates to but excluding the Redemption Date.

     “Reference Banks” means four major banks in the London interbank market selected by
the Administrator.

     “Regular Principal Distribution Amount” means, with respect to any Distribution Date,
an amount not less than zero and equal to:

     (N – (AB – SOA)) – (FPDA + SPDA + TPDA)

     Where:

     N = the Class Note Balance on (i) the immediately preceding Distribution Date
(after giving effect to any principal payments made on such preceding Distribution
Date) or (ii) in the case of the first Distribution Date, the Closing Date, as the
case may be;

     AB = the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date;

     SOA = the Specified Overcollateralization Amount for such Distribution Date;

     FPDA = the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any, for such
Distribution Date;

     SPDA = the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any, for such
Distribution Date; and

     TPDA = the Third Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any, for such
Distribution Date;

     provided, however, that:

the Regular Principal Distribution Amount shall not exceed the Class Note Balance
on such Distribution Date (after taking into account the allocation of the First
Priority Principal Distribution Amount, the Second Priority Principal
Distribution Amount and the Third Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any,
on such Distribution Date).

     “Regulation AB” means Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation AB), 17
C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1123, as such may be amended from time to time, and subject to such
clarification and interpretation as have been provided by the Commission in the adopting release
(Asset-Backed Securities, Securities Act Release No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (Jan. 7,
2005)) or by the staff of the Commission, or as may be provided by the Commission or its staff from
time to time.

Appendix A-25

 

     “Reserve Account” means the account designated as such, established and maintained
pursuant to Section 2.03(a)(ii) of the Administration Agreement.

     “Reserve Account Initial Deposit” means $2,721,089.

     “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any officer within
the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, including any Vice President, Assistant Vice
President, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, or any other officer of the Indenture Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers, with direct responsibility for the administration of the Indenture and the other Basic
Documents on behalf of the Indenture Trustee and also, with respect to a particular matter, any
other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.

     “Sale Agreement” means the Sale Agreement Master Securitization Terms Number 1000,
dated as of September 28, 2006, among the Trustee on behalf of the Trust, the Trust, the Interim
Trustee and the Depositor, and the sale agreement or agreements entered into thereunder.

     “Sarbanes Certification” means the certification required by Rules 13a-14(d) and
15(d)-14(d) under the Exchange Act (pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002).

     “Schedule of Trust Student Loans” means the listing of the Trust Student Loans set
forth in Schedule A to the Indenture and the Bill of Sale (which Schedule may be in the form of
microfiche).

     “Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount” means, with respect to any
Distribution Date, an amount not less than zero equal to:

     (ABN – AB) – FPDA

     Where:

     ABN = the sum of the Class A Note Balance and the Class B Note Balance on (i)
the immediately preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal
payments made on the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes on such preceding
Distribution Date or (ii) in the case of the first Distribution Date, the Closing
Date;

     AB = the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date; and

     FPDA = the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any, with respect
to such Distribution Date;

     provided, however, that:

	 	(a)	 	if a Class B Note Parity Trigger is in
effect, then the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount shall
equal (a) the sum of (i) the Class A Noteholders’ Principal
Distribution Amount

Appendix A-26

 

	 	 	 	and (ii) the Class B Noteholders’ Principal
Distribution Amount less (b) the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount;
	 
	 	(b)	 	on or after the Class B Maturity Date,
the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount shall not be less
than the amount that is necessary to reduce the Class B Note Balance
to zero; and
	 
	 	(c)	 	the Second Priority Principal
Distribution Amount shall not exceed the Class A Note Balance and
the Class B Note Balance as of such Distribution Date (after taking
into account the allocation of the First Priority Principal
Distribution Amount, if any, on such Distribution Date).

     “Seller” means SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation and/or VG Funding, as
applicable.

     “Seller Sale Agreements” means the SLM ECFC Purchase Agreement and the VG Funding
Purchase Agreement, each dated September 28, 2006.

     “Servicer” means Sallie Mae, Inc., in its capacity as servicer of the Trust Student
Loans, or any successor thereto in such capacity in accordance with the Servicing Agreement.

     “Servicer Default” means an event specified in Section 5.01 of the Servicing
Agreement.

     “Servicer’s Report” means any report of the Servicer delivered pursuant to Section
3.01(a) of the Administration Agreement, substantially in the form acceptable to the Administrator.

     “Servicing Agreement” means the Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 28, 2006,
among the Trust, the Trustee, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator and the Indenture
Trustee.

     “Servicing Criteria” means the “servicing criteria” set forth in Item 1122(d) of
Regulation AB, as such may be amended from time to time.

     “Servicing Fee” has the meaning specified in Attachment A to the Servicing Agreement.

     “Signature Student Loan” means a loan originated under the Signature Student Loan
Program.

     “SLM ECFC” means SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation.

     “SLM ECFC Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement Master Securitization Terms
Number 1000, dated as of September 28, 2006, among SLM ECFC, the Interim Trustee and the Depositor,
as well as each purchase agreement entered into thereunder.

Appendix A-27

 

     “Specified Class A Enhancement” means, for any Distribution Date, the greater of (a)
15.0% of the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date, or (b) the Specified Overcollateralization
Amount for such Distribution Date.

     “Specified Class B Enhancement” means, for any Distribution Date, the greater of (a)
10.125% of the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date, or (b) the Specified Overcollateralization
Amount for such Distribution Date.

     “Specified Class C Enhancement” means, for any Distribution Date, means the greater of
(a) 3.0% of the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date, or (b) the Specified
Overcollateralization Amount for such Distribution Date.

     “Specified Overcollateralization Amount” means, as of any Distribution Date, 2.0% of
the initial Asset Balance.

     “Specified Reserve Account Balance” means, at any time, the lesser of $2,721,089 and
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

     “Standard & Poor’s” means Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of The
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

     “State” means any one of the 50 States of the United States of America or the District
of Columbia.

     “Statistical Cutoff Date” means September 4, 2006.

     “Stepdown Date” means the earlier to occur of (a) the December 2011 Distribution Date
and (b) the Distribution Date following that date on which the Class A Note Balance is
reduced to zero.

     “Student Loans” means private education loans to students and parents of students that
are not reinsured by the Department of Education or any other government agency.

     “Subcontractor” means any vendor, subcontractor or other Person that is not
responsible for the overall servicing (as “servicing” is commonly understood by participants in the
student loan-backed securities market) of Trust Student Loans but performs one or more of the
discrete functions identified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB with respect to the Trust Student
Loans under the direction or authority of the Administrator, Servicer or Indenture Trustee (as
applicable).

     “Subservicer” shall mean any Person that services the Trust Student Loans on behalf of
the Administrator, Servicer or Indenture Trustee (as applicable) and is responsible for the
performance (whether directly or through other Subservicers or Subcontractors) of a substantial
portion of the material servicing functions required to be performed by the Administrator, Servicer
or Indenture Trustee (as applicable) that are identified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB.

     “Successor Administrator” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(e) of the
Indenture.

Appendix A-28

 

     “Successor Servicer” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(e) of the Indenture.

     “Swap Agreements” means Basis Swap Agreement I, Basis Swap Agreement II, Basis Swap
Agreement III, and Basis Swap Agreement IV.

     “Swap Counterparty” means Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc., together with its
successors and permitted assigns under the Swap Agreements. In all instances, any references to the
Swap Counterparty in plural shall be read to refer to the Swap Counterparty, so long as each Swap
Counterparty is the same entity.

     “Swap Payment” means, with respect to each Distribution Date, the amount payable to
the Swap Counterparty by the Trust for such date as specified in the related Swap Agreement.

     “Swap Termination Date” means the date on which the related Swap Agreement terminates
in accordance with its terms.

     “Swap Termination Payments” has the meaning set forth in the Swap Agreements.

     “Telerate Page 3750” means the display page so designated on the Moneyline Telerate
Service (or such other page as may replace that page on that service for the purpose of displaying
comparable rates or prices).

     “Third Priority Principal Distribution Amount” means, with respect to any Distribution
Date, an amount not less than zero equal to:

     (N – AB) – (FPDA + SPDA)

     Where:

     N = the Class Note Balance on (i) the immediately preceding Distribution Date
(after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Notes on such preceding
Distribution Date) or (ii) in the case of the first Distribution Date, the Closing
Date;

     AB = the Asset Balance for such Distribution Date;

     FPDA = the First Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any, such
Distribution Date; and

     SPDA = the Second Priority Principal Distribution Amount, if any, for such
Distribution Date;

     provided, however, that:

	 	(a)	 	if a Class C Note Parity Trigger is in effect, then the Third Priority
Principal Distribution Amount shall equal (a) the sum of (i) the Class A Noteholders’
Principal Distribution Amount, (ii) the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution
Amount and (iii) the Class C Noteholders’ Principal Distribution

Appendix A-29

 

	 	 	 	Amount less (b) the
First Priority Principal Distribution Amount plus the Second Priority Principal
Distribution Amount;
	 
	 	(b)	 	on or after the Class C Maturity Date, the Third Priority Principal
Distribution Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the
Class C Note Balance to zero; and
	 
	 	(c)	 	the Third Priority Principal Distribution Amount shall not exceed the Class
Note Balance on such Distribution Date (after taking into account the allocation of the
First Priority Principal Distribution Amount and the Second Priority Principal
Distribution Amount, if any, on such Distribution Date).

     “Three-Month LIBOR” or “Two-Month LIBOR” means, with respect to any Accrual
Period, the London interbank offered rate for deposits in U.S. dollars having the Index Maturity
which appears on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. London time, on the related LIBOR
Determination Date. If this rate does not appear on Telerate Page 3750, the rate for that day will
be determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in U.S. dollars, having the Index
Maturity and in a principal amount of not less than U.S. $1,000,000, are offered at approximately
11:00 a.m., London time, on that LIBOR Determination Date, to prime banks in the London interbank
market by the Reference Banks. The Administrator will request the principal London office of each
Reference Bank to provide a quotation of its rate. If the Reference Banks provide at least two
quotations, the rate for that day will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations. If the Reference
Banks provide fewer than two quotations, the rate for that day will be the arithmetic mean of the
rates quoted by major banks in New York City, selected by the Administrator, at approximately 11:00
a.m., New York City time, on that LIBOR Determination Date, for loans in U.S. dollars to leading
European banks having the Index Maturity and in a principal amount of not less than U.S.
$1,000,000. If the banks selected as described above are not providing quotations, LIBOR in effect
for the applicable Accrual Period will be LIBOR for the specified maturity in effect for the
previous Accrual Period.

     “Transfer” means an offer, sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition of a Note or
any interest therein.

     “Transfer Date” has the meaning specified in Section 5.02(a) of the Administration
Agreement.

     “Treasury Regulations” means regulations, including proposed or temporary regulations,
promulgated under the Code. References in any document or instrument to specific provisions of
proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations
or other successor Treasury Regulations.

     “Trigger Event” means with respect to any Distribution Date, that the Cumulative
Realized Losses Test is not satisfied.

     “Trust” means SLM Private Credit Student Loan Trust 2006-C, a Delaware statutory trust
established pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

Appendix A-30

 

     “Trust Account Property” means the Trust Accounts, all cash and investments held from
time to time in any Trust Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts, Physical Property,
book-entry securities, uncertificated securities or otherwise), including the Reserve Account
Initial Deposit, the Collection Account Initial Deposit, the Borrower Benefit Account Initial
Deposit and all earnings on and proceeds of the foregoing.

     “Trust Accounts” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03 of the Administration
Agreement.

     “Trust Agreement” means the Short-Form Trust Agreement, dated as of June 23, 2006
between the Depositor and the Trustee, as amended and restated by an Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement dated September 28, 2006 among the Depositor, the Trustee and Indenture Trustee.

     “Trust Auction Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04 of the Indenture.

     “Trustee” means Chase Bank USA, National Association, a national banking association,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee under the Trust Agreement. “Trustee” shall
also mean each successor Trustee as of the qualification of such successor as Trustee under the
Trust Agreement.

     “Trust Estate” means all right, title and interest of the Trust (or the Trustee on
behalf of the Trust) in and to the property and rights sold, transferred and assigned to the Trust
pursuant to the Sale Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and
all other property of the Trust from time to time, including any rights of the Trustee and the
Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement, the Administration Agreement and the Swap Agreements.

     “Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
force on the date hereof, unless otherwise specifically provided.

     “Trust Student Loan” means any student loan that is listed on the Schedule of Trust
Student Loans on the Closing Date plus any student loan that is substituted for a Trust Student
Loan by the Depositor pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Sale Agreement, by the Sellers pursuant to
Section 6.02 of the Seller Sale Agreements or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05 of the
Servicing Agreement, but shall not include any Purchased Student Loan following receipt by or on
behalf of the Trust of the Purchase Amount with respect thereto.

     “Trust Student Loan Files” means the documents specified in Section 2.01 of the
Servicing Agreement.

     “Two-Month LIBOR” see “Three-Month LIBOR”.

     “UCC” means, unless the context otherwise requires, the Uniform Commercial Code, as in
effect in the relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time to time.

     “Underwriter” means each of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated.

Appendix A-31

 

     “VG Funding” means VG Funding, LLC.

     “VG Funding Trustee” means Chase Bank USA, National Association, a national banking
association, not in its individual capacity but solely as interim eligible lender trustee for the
benefit of VG Funding under the VG Funding Interim Trust Agreement.

     “VG Funding Interim Trust Agreement” means the Interim Trust Agreement dated as of
September 28, 2006, between VG Funding and the VG Funding Trustee.

     “VG Funding Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement Master Securitization
Terms Number 1000, dated as of September 28, 2006, among VG Funding, the VG Funding Interim
Trustee, the Interim Trustee and the Depositor, as well as each purchase agreement entered into
thereunder.

     “91-Day Treasury Bills” means direct obligations of the United States with a maturity
of thirteen weeks.

Appendix A-32

 

SCHEDULE A

Schedule of Trust Student Loans

[See Schedule A to the Bill of Sale

(Attachment B to the Sale Agreement)]

Schedule A

 

 

SCHEDULE B

Location of Trust Student Loan Files

[See Attachment B to the Servicing Agreement]

Schedule B

 

 

EXHIBIT A

[Form of Notes]

(See 16.1 through 16.6)

Exhibit A

 

 

EXHIBIT B

[Form of Note Depository Agreement]

Exhibit B

 

 

EXHIBIT C

Servicing Criteria To Be Addressed In Assessment Of Compliance

     The assessment of compliance to be delivered by The Bank of New York, as Indenture Trustee,
shall address, at a minimum, the criteria identified below as “Applicable Servicing Criteria”:

	 	 	 	 	 
	Reference	 	Criteria	 	Applicability
	 

	 	General Servicing Considerations	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(1)(i)

	 	Policies and procedures are instituted to monitor any performance or other triggers and events of default in
accordance with the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(1)(ii)

	 	If any material servicing activities are outsourced to third parties, policies and procedures are instituted to
monitor the third party’s performance and compliance with such servicing activities.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(1)(iii)

	 	Any requirements in the Transaction Documents to maintain a back-up servicer for the trust student loans are
maintained.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(1)(iv)

	 	A fidelity bond and errors and omissions policy is in effect on the party participating in the servicing function
throughout the reporting period in the amount of coverage required by and otherwise in accordance with the terms of the
transaction agreements.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Cash Collection and Administration	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(2)(i)

	 	Payments on trust student loans are deposited into the appropriate custodial bank accounts and related bank clearing
accounts no more than two business days following receipt, or such other number of days specified in the Transaction
Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(2)(ii)

	 	Disbursements made via wire transfer on behalf of an obligor or to an investor are made only by authorized personnel.	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(2)(iii)

	 	Advances of funds or guarantees regarding collections, cash flows or distributions, and any interest or other fees
charged for such advances, are made, reviewed and approved as specified in the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(2)(iv)

	 	The related accounts for the transaction, such as cash reserve accounts or accounts established as a form of
overcollateralization, are separately maintained (e.g., with respect to commingling of cash) as set forth in the
Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(2)(v)

	 	Each custodial account is maintained at a federally insured depository institution as set forth in the Transaction
Documents. For purposes of this criterion, “federally insured depository institution” with respect to a foreign
financial institution means a foreign financial institution that meets the requirements of Rule 13k-1(b)(1) of the
Securities Exchange Act.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(2)(vi)

	 	Unissued checks are safeguarded so as to prevent unauthorized access.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(2)(vii)

	 	Reconciliations are prepared on a monthly basis for all asset-backed securities related bank accounts, including
custodial accounts and related bank clearing accounts. These reconciliations are (A) mathematically accurate; (B)
prepared within 30 calendar days after the bank statement cutoff date, or such other number of days specified in the
Transaction Documents; (C) reviewed and approved by someone other than the person who prepared the reconciliation; and
(D)	 	N/A

Exhibit C-1

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	Reference	 	Criteria	 	Applicability
	 

	 	contain explanations for reconciling items. These reconciling items are resolved within 90 calendar days of their
original identification, or such other number of days specified in the Transaction Documents.
	 	
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Investor Remittances and Reporting	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(3)(i)

	 	Reports to investors, including those to be filed with the Commission, are maintained in accordance with the
Transaction Documents and applicable Commission requirements. Specifically, such reports (A) are prepared in accordance
with timeframes and other terms set forth in the Transaction Documents; (B) provide information calculated in accordance
with the terms specified in the Transaction Documents; (C) are filed with the Commission as required by its rules and
regulations; and (D) agree with investors’ or the trustee’s records as to the total unpaid principal balance and number
of student loans serviced by the Servicer.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(3)(ii)

	 	Amounts due to investors are allocated and remitted in accordance with timeframes, distribution priority and other
terms set forth in the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(3)(iii)

	 	Disbursements made to an investor are posted within two business days to the Servicer’s investor records, or such
other number of days specified in the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(3)(iv)

	 	Amounts remitted to investors per the investor reports agree with cancelled checks, or other form of payment, or
custodial bank statements.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Pool Asset Administration	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(i)

	 	Collateral or security on student loans is maintained as required by the Transaction Documents or related student
loan documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(ii)

	 	Student loan and related documents are safeguarded as required by the Transaction Documents
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(iii)

	 	Any additions, removals or substitutions to the asset pool are made, reviewed and approved in accordance with any
conditions or requirements in the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(iv)

	 	Payments on student loans, including any payoffs, made in accordance with the related student loan documents are
posted to the Servicer’s obligor records maintained no more than two business days after receipt, or such other number
of days specified in the Transaction Documents, and allocated to principal, interest or other items (e.g., escrow) in
accordance with the related student loan documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(v)

	 	The Servicer’s records regarding the student loans agree with the Servicer’s records with respect to an obligor’s
unpaid principal balance.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(vi)

	 	Changes with respect to the terms or status of an obligor’s student loans (e.g., loan modifications or re-agings)
are made, reviewed and approved by authorized personnel in accordance with the Transaction Documents and related pool
asset documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(vii)

	 	Loss mitigation or recovery actions (e.g., forbearance plans, modifications and deeds in lieu of foreclosure,
foreclosures and repossessions, as applicable) are initiated, conducted and concluded in accordance with the timeframes
or other requirements established by the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A

Exhibit C-2

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	Reference	 	Criteria	 	Applicability
	1122(d)(4)(viii)

	 	Records documenting collection efforts are maintained during the period a student loan is delinquent in accordance
with the Transaction Documents. Such records are maintained on at least a monthly basis, or such other period specified
in the Transaction Documents, and describe the entity’s activities in monitoring delinquent student loans including, for
example, phone calls, letters and payment rescheduling plans in cases where delinquency is deemed temporary
(e.g., illness or unemployment).
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(ix)

	 	Adjustments to interest rates or rates of return for student loans with variable rates are computed based on the
related student loan documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(x)

	 	Regarding any funds held in trust for an obligor (such as escrow accounts): (A) such funds are analyzed, in
accordance with the obligor’s student loan documents, on at least an annual basis, or such other period specified in the
Transaction Documents; (B) interest on such funds is paid, or credited, to obligors in accordance with applicable
student loan documents and state laws; and (C) such funds are returned to the obligor within 30 calendar days of full
repayment of the related student loans, or such other number of days specified in the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(xi)

	 	Payments made on behalf of an obligor (such as tax or insurance payments) are made on or before the related penalty
or expiration dates, as indicated on the appropriate bills or notices for such payments, provided that such support has
been received by the servicer at least 30 calendar days prior to these dates, or such other number of days specified in
the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(xii)

	 	Any late payment penalties in connection with any payment to be made on behalf of an obligor are paid from the
servicer’s funds and not charged to the obligor, unless the late payment was due to the obligor’s error or omission.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(xiii)

	 	Disbursements made on behalf of an obligor are posted within two business
days to the obligor’s records maintained by the
servicer, or such other number of days specified in the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(xiv)

	 	Delinquencies, charge-offs and uncollectible accounts are recognized and recorded in accordance with the
Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A
	 
	 	 	 	 
	1122(d)(4)(xv)

	 	Any external enhancement or other support, identified in Item 1114(a)(1) through (3) or Item 1115 of Regulation AB,
is maintained as set forth in the Transaction Documents.
	 	N/A

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Date:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK, not in its individual capacity but
solely
as Indenture Trustee	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Name:
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title:	 	 

Exhibit C-3exv10w1

 

Exhibit 10.1

Monday, September 18, 2006

Glenn Kermes

713 5th Avenue South

Escanaba, MI 49829

Dear Glenn:

On behalf of Winland Electronics, Inc., I am pleased to offer you an opportunity to join our
organization as a Chief Financial Officer, reporting to Lorin Krueger, President/CEO. Presuming
you accept our offer, we would like you to begin on October 2, 2006.

Your starting annual salary will be $135,000.00, paid bi-weekly at a rate of $5,192.31. The Chief
Financial Officer position is classified as an “Exempt” position, and therefore, not eligible for
overtime compensation. Based on the achievement of pre-determined goals (to be mutually agreed
upon by you and the CEO and completed or satisfied by Dec. 31, 2006), you will be eligible to earn
up to an additional $10,000 gross incentive. You will also be eligible for an additional incentive
of up to 20% of your base salary, based upon the company meeting Board of Directors’ approved
performance guidelines. This incentive is not guaranteed and must be released by both the Board of
Directors and the President/CEO, with exact award amount determined by the President/CEO. As an
officer, you will also be awarded 36,000 stock option shares, with the strike price in effect on
your first day of employment (Oct. 2, 2006). These options will vest at 20% per year to be fully
vested in five years.

A relocation package (including up to one month’s temporary housing in the Mankato area) will be
provided for reasonable relocation expenses by a moving company pre-approved by Winland
Electronics. All moving expenses must be approved by the CEO prior to the move. Please see the
attached Relocation Package Agreement for details.

Your initial Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual will be at the rate of 10.667 hours per month, which will
be prorated for the remainder of this year. Additional benefits under Winland’s Employee Benefit
Program are described in the enclosed Benefits Summary.

If you are to accept employment at Winland Electronics, Inc., it shall be in an “at-will” capacity,
meaning that either the employee or the Company may terminate the relationship at any time with the
understanding that neither party has the obligation to base the decision on any reason other than
intent not to continue the employment relationship.

This offer of employment is contingent upon the successful completion of Winland’s pre-employment
drug screening process. Please see the attached Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy. Acceptance of
all terms outlined in the Employment Agreement is also required as a part of this offer; the
agreement will be approved by the Compensation Committee and presented to you. This agreement will
have the

 

 

standard non-competition and intellectual property clauses. A basic draft is attached; note, this
is not the final agreement being offered.

Please return this letter, signed drug policy acknowledgements and employment agreement on or
before Tuesday, September 26, 2006 to indicate your acceptance and understanding.

If you have questions about the position or our benefits package, please contact me at
507-386-4170. We look forward to having you as part of the Winland team!

Sincerely,

	 	 	 	 	 
	/s/ Holly Jones
 

Holly Jones, SPHR

Human Resources Manager

Winland Electronics, Inc.

hejones@winland.com

507-386-4170	 	
/s/ Glenn Kermes
 

Acceptance Signature
	 	September 26, 2006
 

Date

Enc.

Relocation Package Agreement

Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy

Employment Agreement, Non-Competition & Confidentiality Agreement

 

 

Winland Electronics, Inc.

Relocation Package Agreement

	 	 	 	 
	Employee:

	 	Glenn Kermes
	 

	 	 
	 
	 	 
	Start Date:

	 	October 2, 2006
	 

	 	 

A relocation package of approximately $9,000 (net) will be paid directly to the
pre-approved providers listed below. Payment will be made once move is complete. Expenses listed
are an estimate; final cost will be determined upon completion of service. All moving expenses
must be pre-approved by the President/CEO.

Relocation Expenses:

	 	•	 	Up to One Month Stay at Grandstay Executive Suites, Mankato $1737
	 
	 	•	 	Full service moving expenses, Mayflower Corporation, estimated $7,000

If the employee voluntarily leaves Winland Electronics, Inc. before completing one year of service,
he/she may be subject to reimbursing Winland Electronics, Inc. for a pro-rated amount of the
relocation payment.

Winland Electronics, Inc. may elect to net any reimbursement due against undistributed funds owed
to the employee upon termination.

The employee’s signature below is:

	 	•	 	Confirmation of understanding of this agreement.
	 
	 	•	 	Authorization to deduct these funds.

	 	 	 	 
	Signature:
	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 
	 	 
	Date:

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