Instructors are not supposed to “give you what you want”.
Now what they are supposed to do is find your problem areas and teach you how to conquer them.
There is no such thing as a mystery standard.
You can’t just keep guessing what he wants to see that day.
Something like:
3 out of 5 landings between this point and this point ( like two taxiways or threshold markings or any combination of easily seen markers).
The remaining two may not be past this next point. If it appears you will touchdown past this point I expect you to do a go around.
Center line needs to be between the main gear.
If it is not I expect you to do a go around.
Out of the 5 landings I would like to see full flap, partial flap and no flap landings.
Those are clear expectations.
Now it take a good circuit/pattern to do a good landing as you don’t have the experience yet to correct for a bad pattern and still get a good landing out of it.
So if your landings are not satisfactory then there’s something amiss with your patterns.
If your patterns are amiss there’s something lacking in your primary skills:
Climbing turns
Descending turns
Level flight with constant track ( wind correction)
Acceleration and deceleration in level flight
Configuration changes in level flight.
Configuration changes in descending flight.
Something that I used to do was be the “autopilot”.
As previously agreed I would take the airplane at 500’ after take off and fly the circuit/pattern and have the student sit back, relax and watch and listen. Give the airplane back on final on speed and on altitude and configured.
Repeat as required.
Once a couple of decent landings are accomplished then hand the airplane back on base. Then mid downwind.