For my GFT the cloud base was too low for the upper air work so the examiner made me climb through about 2000' of cloud to VMC on top. Of course I then had to descend back through it. As I popped out underneath at about 1700' I was thinking that went quite well and he chopped the power for the PFL.
One thing puzzled me. How did he know where we were. The C152 had no navaids at all, apart from a DI and compass of course.