well, here we don't take driving tests for permits, but I remember when my bro took his. He got a 72%(passed it first time) but was counted off for speeding, and parallel parking. Evidently, he went past the spot like you're supposed to, and then put it in reverse and sped-parked. He parked perfectly, but was counted off cause of his manner of parking without slowing down!
My dad failed his first test cause he did it in his dad's GTO back in the day...he said that he peeled out several times by accident...