When I took my driver's test in the USA, my score was based on a rubric and so I could not be penalized for mistakes that weren't on the rubric. I managed to stall the car in the middle of the road but that was fine because whoever wrote the rubric must have assumed that no one would take the test in a car with a manual transmission.
So what I'm saying is that maybe this guy did pass, if there wasn't an explicit "doesn't drive off-road" scoring category...