Have to agree with all the sentiments in here (including having a laugh at Smedley's story, although I can't quite see how it's relevant!)
On my own PPL skills test, I totally c0cked up a cross-wind landing. I did my PPL at a field with enough runways that one of them was always into wind, so I never really got much practice, until the day of my skills test. I chose to split the test into two, and at the end of the navigation section my examiner had me land at a field I wasn't familiar with before moving on to the general handling section. Only one runway, and a reasonable cross-wind. The approach was ok, but as I came over the numbers I realised that I didn't have a clue what I was doing! Fortunately, I did the sensible thing, went around, and managed (with a lot of concentration) to get down on the next attempt.
We went on to do the general handling section, did circuits at my home airfield (on an into-wind runway!), and went in for the de-brief. I'm certain that I shouldn't have passed the landings section of the test... but there's no way that an examiner can ask me to re-do a crosswind landing because there may not be a suitable wind the next time around. So he passed me, but "suggested" that I ought to get hold of an instructor and get some cross-wind practice "soon". So that's exactly what I did.
I think he probably handled the debrief correctly. I left feeling slightly demoralised, but I knew exactly what I needed to do to bring myself up to standard, so I went away and did it.
FFF
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