Congratulations!
Mikehotel152 - may I be the first to congratulate you publicly here. Well done! And especially so after such an unsettling incident just at the start.
Examiners like to see how you handle things under pressure. Most students will provide their own pressure for this, but some seem icy cool, and need to be pushed into making a few minor mistakes to see how they handle them. It is rare that the aircraft provides this function for them so obligingly!
After such a good handling of the initial problem (we assume?!), my guess is you pretty much 'had it in the bag', barring serious cock-ups.
On my IR test, just a couple of knots below V1 the whole G1000 display on my side failed, so I immediately rejected the takeoff. The examiner was initially wondering why I was stopping, as his display was unaffected. However this doubtless worked well in my favour, having seen how I would handle a minor 'emergency'.
As for your 'invisible' strip - we've all been there! It is so easy to overlook the obvious when under pressure. One test I regularly give my examinees on the way home on a skills test is a PFL from 2,000' directly over the home airfield. You would be shocked by how many dutifully search out and use a crappy little field next to a perfectly good 1,300m runway instead of using the runway itself!
PM