Your instructor is being an egoistical prat and not encouraging you. My instructor had an exceptional reputation for the area, almost 30 years in the business and passed a lot of people that we happened to mutually know including one of my best mate's eldest daughter. But he never mentions it, even though I can see him trying to hide a smile when I used to tell him "so you're probably one of the best in the area then, if I don't pass with you I ain't ever passing".
His reputation as a good instructor is simply known, he doesn't have to mention it, because even the examiners at the TC know.