I also suspect you'll do very well on your checkride. Sometimes that just happens. I had one guy who didn't get his PPL checkride until he had almost 100 hours and over a year into it (kept getting weathered out, etc.) but he stuck with it and loved it. He went on to get an Instrument Rating and bought a Cherokee 180 that's on leaseback at KSMO - I fly his plane every time I'm out there looking to rent one for fun, just because...