EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I have been trying my hand at exploration on my trial account. So far, I have been 5 for 5 with only finding Unstable Wormholes in 0.8 or 0.9 space. Am I looking in the wrong places? Or just really unlucky so far? With my limited skills, it takes 10 to 15 minutes to track down a site and it is frustrating to finally pinpoint it to discover its yet another worthless (for me) wormhole.

Any suggestions?

It is luck, but what you are experiencing is not terribly unusual either.

Most types of sites you scan, you clear, and they despawn and something else spawns a few systems away. Wormholes, however, actually take effort or waiting a lot more time to despawn making wormholes seem to occur more frequently than other sites.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Sounds like I just need to be patient and plugging away.

Exploring is quite a random-luck profession, some days you can find a pristine radar site and loot millions with little trouble, others you'll find nothing but a few worthless salvage parts left-over by those who visited the site before you but didn't clear it.

However, to improve the time needed to scan down a sig to a 100 percent, there's no secret, train astrometric (pinpointing/rangefinding/acquisition) to 4 at least and use the frigate of your race with bonuses to scan strength, fitted with gravity capacitor rigs and sister core scanning probes (not the combat ones, but those only fit in an expanded launcher anyway). It's about the best you can do when you're just beginning.
Later on you can find implants providing a boost in scan strength, scan time, or such, from LP stores such as SOE if you do some missions for them, but the Epic arc doesn't provide any LP point however.

Use dotlan when you enter a system, to have an idea of the recent activity, that can help deciding if it's worth giving it a try. If there's been a lot of jumps and NPC kills in the past 24h, you can assume it's better to move on than fire the probes.

Like others said, don't walk the beaten paths but pack a lot of patience when you head out.

All cosmic sigs and anoms, have a lifetime, that lifetime can be shortened by the players, clearing a radar site, crushing a wormhole, clearing an anom, etc.
I know the frustration, I've been exploring a lot too in my early days, even visited w-space in lol-fitted frigates or cruisers, taught me to stay alert and gtfo, with a bit of newb-luck maybe.
But there's a lot of people exploring systems and basically doing just that day long, so you keep competing with others to find the sites first. In that particular domain, further away from the beaten paths, better chances you have. If you remain close to your starter system, expect other new players to go the same route you do, if you get close to market hubs or higher sec systems, you're more likely to see the sistes cleared before you. Roam the fringes of high sec, systems without stations, systems close to lowsec or null, maybe leave gallente space for some time and try your luck in caldari space or any other. We can't help you much with exploration sites, if no one finds them, they "expire" after a few days and spawn in another system.
You might want to consider other occupations for crappy days when nothing interesing shows up.
Sorry if it doesn't sound appealing, but there's nothing skills or equipment can do about it, some systems can have 3 radar and a mag site along with 2 wormholes and 5 anoms, others can have only a drone infestation... Exploration is really a random activity, but don't give up, there's a lot of systems to explore, can't be damned forever :)