All the correpondents have made some excellent suggestions to help with hold entry,However it should be noted that holds and hold entries are not part of the IMC syllabus although great fun and good instrument training.
Holds are not part of the test proceedure,
however as an examiner if the student was put in the hold because of ATC requirements
then I would expect he remained in the same county at the correct altitude and I don't care what entry proceedure he uses
regards
Steamhead