During the heady days when EK was hiring DECs, our recruitment team was astonished by the abilities of the everyone-passes-the-command-course-on-first-try folks from Murka.
Two reside in memory. The first, asked to do a visual circuit from 12R, took off, turned south, became disoriented, and never turned again. The second, asked to track to the Sharjah VOR using only the RMI needles, flew to Sharjah very well. Arriving there, as the needles laid off to the left, he aggresively tracked them in ever tightening left 360 turns until the result was aerobatic.
I'm sure they do pass on the first try, but what can it possibly mean to say so if you have no standards whatsoever.