Like "Pull What" I am also wondering why people are talking about minima when the task is to get through a layer in order to continue VFR to your destination - there must be more than a thousand feet of VMC under the layer or you would already have switched to plan B.
It's a few years since I did my IMC, but do they really teach such different stuff nowadays? All you do is go to the last VOR on your trip, draw a line that heads towards low ground, and as you cross through the overhead of the beacon start a descent in that direction. If you're still IMC at 1000 feet AGL, it isn't going to work so you climb back up and divert to a "proper" airfield with an approach.