All this waving around of pens and using various instruments in ways for which they were not designed! The lines that divide the entry sectors are printed on the Aerad chart. Mentally, or by pre-flight writing the various headings on the chart, work out the headings that define each sector. As you come up to the hold, compare your actual heading with the sector defining headings, work out which entry is required, tell the examiner and then do it.
Before that, however, while in the briefing room, tactfully ask this examiner where in the IMC Rating syllabus are holding and hold entries. If he doesn't get the message from that, have a word with someone else in authority at your school and if that doesn't work, have an (anonymous) chat with a Flight Standards Officer in CAA Flight Crew Licensing. The IMC Rating is demanding enough without some martinet adding a test requirement that gives some difficulty to I/R holders.
Some contributors to this thread might be unaware that the subject relates to the UK PPL national IMC Rating, not the full Instrument Rating. Different syllabus, different privileges.
[This message has been edited by Hew Jampton (edited 17 January 2001).]