Well, that's made me feel a bit better about things.
I started learning when I was 17, and I didn't want to (parents pushed me into it) and I had an awful BSM instructor, who frustrated me so much that I quit. I started again, and rushed into a test, when I obviously failed (nervous as hell). I gave up again for a year, then started again last summer, I did another test, and failed for having four minors on approaching junctions too quickly (bit sore on that) so failed.
Booked another straight away, but failed for turning too far past the line into a road (I thought it'd be a minor as nothing was coming down the road) but she failed me.
Fourth one - I ****ed up the parallel park, which happened 5 minutes into my test and I was still as nervous as hell, only got 3 minors, so that sucked.
Fifth - She failed me for going up the gears too slowly once, and apparently wasting petrol, only got 4 minors, so seemed pretty harsh.
In all honesty, just about ready to give up. My test centre has a pretty low pass rate too, which doesn't help, but I have to do it there.