conditional sentences I want to say my father promised me to buy a car for me if I passed the exam. If I say "He promised me if I passed the exam, he would buy me a car." It means is it unreal? Didn't he buy me or didn't I pass?? If I intend to express a real conditional sentence that happened in the past how should I say that? Like the example?

describe a person who has helped you become who you are today. A person who has helped me become who I am today is my father. Firstly, he taught me to be independent since I was just a child. He never decided for me, just explained me advantages and disadvantages of something and leave me free to choose. For example, when I was a child he persuaded me to pick my clothes by myself no matter it had good quality or was proper or not. So I have a very independent personality now. Furthermore, he always care about my education. He believed in my talent and encouraged me to study hard. he permanently traced(?)my grades and was a great exhorting. For example, since he knew that I liked to have a car, promised me to buy it for me if I passed the university entrance exam. It was a great motivation for me and his plan paned out. Because of his supporting, I could graduated in MBA.

describe a person you know who does a job that you admire. One person who does a job that I admire is my manager. Firstly because my manager as a woman is a very admirable(adorable?) Manager. She is very serious and she can lead employees very well. Factly most of my colleagues are skillful men but all of them obey her and they are under her control. Furthermore , she has a cosmetic company, which means she is an enterprenuer and a lot of people are getting paid for their works in her company. Also almost nobody fire there. If somebody isn't good enough in one position , she or he will be appointed to another position regarding to his or her skill or ability.