First, as has been said, YOU will be flying during the skills test, so you can carry out the stalls at YOUR comfort level as long as you are actually showing the examiner what is asked (e.g. for fully developed you should not be recovering at the light buffet).
Apart from the skills test though it would be interesting to know what the instructor did that put you off so much. As has been said, practice helps, but so does proper teaching, I instruct at UH where we teach stalling in the APPL course, this looks at most aspects of stalling in depth and I have always found that the students actually find it more fun than they thought it would be and have rarely found anyone that thinks of it as frightening once we have covered this part of the syllabus.
Last edited by foxmoth; 23rd April 2013 at 13:53.