Cricket23: your instructor is absolutely correct that you should be able to cope with whatever circumstances throw at you. The full CA procedure assumes that you have the height to do it, if not you need to fly to where you should be in the procedure for your height (and when higher, fly initially to area of best fields).
Remember, if the forced landing is successful it doesn't matter if you did any checks or told anyone, so concentrate on maintaining the aspect - if it's constant you're on the surface of an inverted cone and can only touch the ground in one place! However, it would be embarrassing to have to explain why the aircraft was in a field because you hadn't changed the fuel selector to the tank that still had some fuel in it!
Aligning yourself with the wind (use smoke or DI) makes field selection easier.
One thing to emphasise, however you do it always land into wind.. The kinetic energy (proportional to groundspeed squared) at touchdown needs to be dissipated somehow so it's pretty obvious that it needs to be as low as possible. Compare landing in a 10kt wind in an aircraft with a touchdown airspeed of 40kts. Into wind the energy at touchdown is 900M (M is mass of aircraft); downwind the touchdown energy is 2500M - nearly 3x the energy to be dissipated if you were to land downwind! In a 20kt wind the difference is 9 times!
HFD