Your worst subject(s) at school

scott · Post by **scott** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:32 pm

What was your worst subject(s) during your school days?

Mine were Maths and Music, Having a maths test was like having a day in the magistrates court and getting the test results was like having your sentence handed down, But I did manage to pass some of them, albeit barely. My maths teacher in Year 11 suggested I should of been doing biblical studies. Music I only did in Year 7 and all I could do was get all the nice sounds on the keyboards and use the bender. The teacher threw me out one day, but I managed to get a D rather than a Fail.

Citybus · Post by **Citybus** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:44 pm

Stuffed up Chemistry, but did well in Maths though.

Post by **Andrew** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:44 pm

Maths easily. I never passed a maths test after year 8.

Post by **Fleet Lists** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:07 pm

How can a Hurlstone Graduate admit to that?

My worst would definitely have been music - I have no ear for that at all.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:34 pm

In order from outright hatred to mere contempt

Maths-although some parts like Algebra and Trigonometery I had suprising results in
Music
Year 11 and 12 English-where it stopped being an "English" class and started being analyising feelings and points of view in texts
PE [those who cant do, teach, those who can't teach teach PE]
Indonesian

Having said that 2 of my former teachers who I really respect and admire were both Maths teachers.

John · Post by **John** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:40 pm

Maths was my least favourite and worst subject at school. It all went downhill after year 8, both a combination of not being strong at topics such as algebra and probability and from having a teacher who was unable to control the class and get on with teaching us. I ended up having tutoring from years 10-12 and studied Further Maths in VCE. I actually did rather well, but that was primarily because I am a practically minded person and Further Maths covered practical topics (e.g. financial maths, stats, networks, etc).

I failed Business Statistics in my first year of Uni, however that was due to my own (lack of) effort. The subject was 50% stats and 50% probability. Had I taken an optional test mid semester, I would have easily passed because the mid semester test only covered stats. Instead, I chose to not do the test which meant the final exam was more heavily weighted - a big mistake when the final exam was primarily based on probability, a topic I struggled with. I took the subject again the following year and passed with a credit.

Post by **Vitalstatistix** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:08 pm

Probably the worst subjects at school for me were Classical Studies... I had great interest in it, but my results begged to differ.

However another subject I regreted ever taking is Geography. A rotten class, rotten teacher and a rotten waste of 50minutes - 1 hour each day of my year 11

jarf · Post by **jarf** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:00 am

PE. Easily the biggest waste of five hours a week.

That said, I was surprisingly good at everything else even though my attendance was significantly lacking in year 12.

MetroTasCatcher · Post by **MetroTasCatcher** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:54 am

Mine has to be maths. Only passing with C's at the moment.

PE too, I'm not the most sporty person on the planet...

moto51 · Post by **moto51** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:38 am

Mine currently are history and English, my history teacher is good but I just hate it and English well it leaves a lot to be desired, since high school I haven't really learnt anything other than pointless sh!t that nobody cares about. my view is that English is anything that doesn't fit the other subjects, not how to do any of those basic things that you did in primary school that need refreshing. Geez here I am talking about primary school, that was a loooong time ago.

John · Post by **John** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:04 am

MetroTasCatcher wrote:PE too, I'm not the most sporty person on the planet...

I was never the most sporty person on the planet too. I was good at cycling and swimming, but neither were really covered in depth in PE which often meant I (and others with my skill level) were picked last and welcomed into a team with sighs and groans.

I remember a couple of times getting to be "captain" and picking all the "cool" kids last which actually annoyed them!

scott · Post by **scott** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:32 am

Sport was another one of my bad subjects, but it was compulsory and very easy to pass, you just had the be there and try and partcipate as best you can, even if you could not run 500 metres without keeling over, partcipation was the key.

As far as maths goes, I was actually very good at statistics and actually did very well in Chance and Data units, but Algebra with all the silly "solve this for x" equations and geometry and trig really tested me, and bloody maths homework that took me hours. But I did Further Maths in Year 12 and had a great supportive teacher who knew my shortcomings and helped out when needed, That had a lot of statistics in it, but it more application type maths which I did better in, being able to use it in every day life. Using a graphics calculator and Excel really helped, as we did not sit and do problems every day, we based it on common situations such as X bus fleet needs to improve it's average fleet age, what would you suggest etc

Frances · Post by **Frances** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:45 am

Physics. I got by reasonably well with anthing else to do with science though. I don't think I ever got more than 40% in any tests or exams that were solely about Physics (from memory I think the worst mark I got for it was something like 23%).

Closely followed by Mathematics........

Two-Way · Post by **Two-Way** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:56 am

franfran wrote:Physics. I got by reasonably well with anthing else to do with science though. I don't think I ever got more than 40% in any tests or exams that were solely about Physics (from memory I think the worst mark I got for it was something like 23%).

Yup Physics was my worst subject. But then when I went to TAFE as an electrical apprentice, suddenly everything we learnt in Physics fell into place. Weird.

English I only just passed, just!

eddy · Post by **eddy** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:58 am

19% in French then they decided i would be better off at a tech school than a high school

kitkat271 · Post by **kitkat271** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:05 pm

Hated PE - as someone who had no proficiency whatsoever for ball sports there was absolutely no place for me. And they wonder why we have an obesity problem ...

Peter1805 · Post by **Peter1805** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:19 pm

French & Geography, but my vote for most boring would have to be Accounting... Accountants are the most boring people on Earth, and have contributed to the rise of the most boring coloured car on earth, the silver car, in all it's shades of soul-less grey.

My Geography teacher once threatened to throw me out the window - which had some significance as a threat, because the classes were held on the first floor of the building..

Frances · Post by **Frances** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:36 pm

Peter1805 wrote:Accountants are the most boring people on Earth

I would have thought that actuaries are more boring than accountants, but I suppose they're more or less a sub-species of accountant anyway.....

Dave Wilson · Post by **Dave Wilson** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:53 pm

Actuaries certainly earn the bickies though.

French was my worst subject but excelled in German - otherwise would have been shot by our most German of German teachers.

1whoknows · Post by **1whoknows** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:14 pm

Irony? 8% for HSC General Maths and I end up managing multi million $$ programs.

Frances · Post by **Frances** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:31 pm

Dave Wilson wrote:Actuaries certainly earn the bickies though.

I've heard it described as the ideal job for someone who wants to make a lot of money but not have a life.......

The King · Post by **The King** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:56 pm

For me English was the worst - I didn't see the point in analysing novels, films, Shakespeare and Poetry. How would analysing this crap help in a future career? I felt Shakepeare was the worst though - like being forced by to appreciate and study his work because he was so great and important

Happy Bus User · Post by **Happy Bus User** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:04 pm

HPE was definitely my worst. I got an E in grade 8 and a D in grade 9!!

Frances · Post by **Frances** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:23 pm

The King wrote:For me English was the worst - I didn't see the point in analysing novels, films, Shakespeare and Poetry. How would analysing this crap help in a future career? I felt Shakepeare was the worst though - like being forced by to appreciate and study his work because he was so great and important

Each to their own I suppose.

English was, together with Art, one of my favourite subjects. I quite enjoyed studying Shakespeare and the other various texts we had. I don't know if it has helped me in my career or not (probably not) but it has given me an appreciation of literature and, yes, I do read works by famous novelists and poets from time to time, the last ones being "Kangaroo" by DH Lawrence and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce.

MetroTasCatcher · Post by **MetroTasCatcher** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:09 pm

The King wrote:For me English was the worst - I didn't see the point in analysing novels, films, Shakespeare and Poetry. How would analysing this crap help in a future career? I felt Shakepeare was the worst though - like being forced by to appreciate and study his work because he was so great and important

I gotta agree with you there, we're doing Macbeth etc etc this year, it is boring as all shite. We did all the bloody novel analysing last year, what a waste of a bloody year. The curriculum is f*cked up, we should be learning how to do useful things in English like writing resumes or essays, not reading novels and picking it to bits...