I passed mine first time, just a few years ago
despite* being so nervous my hands were sweating and I slipped off the gearstick and smacked the examiner in the thigh, twice, and spending the duration of the test with the windscreen wipers on (on a dry day) because I switched them on instead of the indicator and was too terrified to try and switch them off again. (I was confused - I'd had lessons in four different cars in the preceding few weeks: my own automatic 20year old Carlton, my instructor's little dodgem of a car, another dodgem belonging to my fill-in instructor when my first instructor went on holiday for a month, and then yet another dodgem when a tree fell on the first one).

*or perhaps because
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 21:14, Reply)