I found, although thought it would be the other way round at the start, the real test of your character was the next bit...
CPL/IR/Interview/Type-rating...
Well mine is starting soon, and if you have read my other thread you will see that I'm already facing a test of character and I haven't even started the flaming things yet !!
Reading your post there, I remembered another reason why I failed Gen Nav the first time round, I'd concertrated so much on the actual Nav stuff, I'd forgotten that there were elements of instruments in the exam too, and hadn't learn't those bits or even the gen knowledge bits thoroughly enough.