The above comment is correct, but remember, you must pass ALL 7 PPL exams within 18 months from your first exam pass...so you are in fact on a timer.
Yes, I think most instructors (read, all of us) are aware of this.
Perhaps you should be getting down to nav gen yourself rather than passing so much time on Pprune? May I gently remind you where you are?
A place for instructors to communicate with one another
As in: one another. Feel free to return to this forum when you have some sort of instructor rating, do.