GA SMA TRACK DEVIATION NON ADHERENCE TO ATC CLRNC DUE CLRNC INTERP.

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I WAS ENRTE FOR F55 ZFW CLRED ME TO DSND AND MAINTAIN 3000' TO AQN FOR THE APCH (VOR/DME). I RPTED XING AQN SBND AND WAS ACKNOWLEDGED. I CONTINUED S WAITING FOR 'CLRED FOR THE APCH' I RPTED TO CENTER. AGAIN ABOUT 3 MI S OF AQN AND AGAIN WAS ACKNOWLEDGED. AT SOME TIME ABOUT 10 DME S CENTER THEN ASKED IF I WAS SHOOTING THE APCH TO WHICH I REQUESTED CLRNC FOR. I WAS THEN INFORMED TO RETURN TO AQN CLRED FOR THE APCH. LOOKING BACK I REALIZE I WAS CLRED FOR THE APCH WHEN I WAS CLRED FOR DSCNT; AND THAT EVEN HAD I NOT BEEN CLRED FOR APCH THE CORRECT PROC WOULD HAVE BEEN TO ENTER THE ESTABLISHED HOLD AT AQN. THIS WAS MY FIRST IFR SOLO IN IMC CONDITIONS WHICH GREATLY CONTRIBUTED TO MY MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT I WAS TOLD TO DO. ALSO DURING INSTRUMENT TRNING THAT CLRNC WAS GIVEN AS FOLLOWS: DSND AND MAINTAIN 3000' DIRECT AQN CLRED FOR VOR APCH RPT AQN OUTBND OR PROC TURN INBND. THE WAY THE CLRNC WAS ACTUALLY GIVEN I ONLY UNDERSTOOD CLRED TO 3000' THEN WHEN I RPTED XING AQN SBND AND NO ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION WERE ISSUED I ASSUMED I WAS CONFORMING AND RECONFIRMED MY ASSUMPTIONS BY RPTING A SECOND TIME FURTHER S OF AQN. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: CALLBACK MADE TO CONFIRM TYPE OF APCH AND RPTR EXPLAINED HE DID NOT HAVE AN APCH CHART WITH HIM WHEN HE WROTE THE RPT AND FORGOT THE ACTUAL LABEL. HE ALSO AFFIRMED THAT THE FACT THAT THIS WAS HIS FIRST SOLO APCH CAUSED HIM SOME EMOTIONAL TRAUMA. CLRNC FROM CENTER WAS AS STATED 'CLRED TO DSND TO 3000' DIRECT AQN FOR THE VOR B APCH.' IT IS POSSIBLE IN HIS EXCITEMENT ANTICIPATING THE APCH HE MISSED THE WORD CLRED BTWN 'AQN' AND 'FOR' BUT HE DOES NOT THINK THE CLRNC WAS SPECIFIC ENOUGH.