Not disagreeing that the attitude of wings level nose on the horizon will be sufficent to unstall.
The fact is that for your wings to stall they will be at 15-17deg AofA.
By bringing the attitude down to nose level with the horizon you will be reducing the AoA to 3-4degs. It may be that means you physically move the stick forward or only ease the pressure the difference is more of an indication of incorrect trimming ie if you have had a trim runaway and its right the way back you will have to push forward, if its just cack handed flying you will just have to stop pulling back as hard.
But fundamentally your going to have to do something with the elevator to get it unstalled.
As i have said in previous threads I actually quite like the idea that there is a limit to how much you can lower the nose for a checkride. It takes all the you didn't do enough /did to much personal opinion out of it.