All I can say is that working at a riding school and being a client are very diferent! I've been both!! I do think that when you have to pay for lessons it makes you think very differently. Every lesson you take, you think more about what you are being asked to do. When you work somewhere, it is as though you go through the motions without really thinking what is going on. If you know the people giving you lessons you also tend to not to listen so well or heed what you are being told. I also thought a great deal about the amount of yard work I had to do, after the lesson!!
In the past I have seen people with more 'horsey' experience than I had failing their exams because they had been told/felt they would pass.
All your not so good points were to do with balance and harmony. The only answer that I have for this is lunge lessons - not once a week but every day. A good 20 mins or so just after morning stables. Those of us who needed them at our yard did them during the breakfast break - 8.30-9.00 am. Really hard work but well worth it coming up to an exam.
I don't know your situation, but I hope you can do some of the above.
Good luck.
In the past I have seen people with more 'horsey' experience than I had failing their exams because they had been told/felt they would pass.
All your not so good points were to do with balance and harmony. The only answer that I have for this is lunge lessons - not once a week but every day. A good 20 mins or so just after morning stables. Those of us who needed them at our yard did them during the breakfast break - 8.30-9.00 am. Really hard work but well worth it coming up to an exam.
I don't know your situation, but I hope you can do some of the above.
Good luck.