Originally Posted by Tango49
the main one being a feeling of anxiety of almost suffocating proportions during the one-to-one examination.
Well m8 u aint the only one! I can fly any IR procedure with my eyes closed when I'm with an instructor, but during my test I couldn't even read the platform heights on the plates!! The examiner didnt help either, he gave me no preflight briefing and he rushed the whole flight so that he could go home.
Any future tests that I do I'm going to try and not get too worked up about them, at the end of the day they are only stupid tests. More important things in life.