most of the stuff I tried really hard to understand, but he seems to think I'm a professional.
He was teaching me something to do with checks during cruise flight, not sure of the name of the checks and the sequence but you do engine checks, and check the fuel gauge for full then you will check the transponder is squawking the right code.
I think you need to speak to this instructor and say that the way he is doing it is not right for you and he needs to explain things a little more clearly, the checks you are talking about sound like the cruise checks which should be done every 10 mins or so, this can vary from school to school (and with some schools can vary between instructor though this should
not be so) but I teach FEMDO - Fuel - quantity and balance, Engine - Ts & Ps, Mixture - set, DI - syncronised, Orientation - happy with position
Sounds like he might be using FEDRA instead with R = Radio or Transponder and A = Altimeter.