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I technically failed my first time, as the backup lights in my car didn't work, so I didn't even get to the driving part. They let me use a different vehicle the same day, so I passed with a vehicle that I didn't drive too often. I've never heard of a secret policy where everyone automatically fails, and most of the people I've known pass the first time, so I'm guessing it's some urban legend.
If anything I've heard of people always getting marked down for something but arbitrarily failing everyone completely on their first try would just lead to a huge backlog of test takers.
I could see why someone would think it, though. My girlfriend got her license very late, we went to the same DMV 3 times to take the test. First time, bapped the pole during the parallel park, instant fail, do not pass go, do not collect a driver's license. Second time, didn't pass the parallel park but didn't bap the pole, so continued. Got marked "Fail" on things. More practice, third time, again, tons of fails over minor errors. Note that there is a middle point between good and fail, but they literally never used it.
Fourth time, I said screw that DMV, we're going to a different one. We went to a town with a tiny DMV with one little older lady running it, she literally had to lock up the office portion for every road test because she was alone. Girlfriend miraculously did the parallel park perfect, not a single fail on anything, and 2/3 of the middle scores. Passed easily.
First DMV had a lot of young workers, so my thinking is they like to mark everything they can to show their bosses how good they are at nitpicking other people's driving.