What was your best and worst subjects in school?

[hownos]

Best - History
Worst - Art

[gbgoodies]

Best - Math and Science
Worst - History and Geography

[Allaby]

Best- recess and lunch
worst- math

[Gideon58]

Best: Music

Worst: Math

[Holden Pike]

With the title "What was your best and worst subjects in school?" I knew hownos was not going to list English as their best. :)

BEST: English/Writing
WORST: Math

[Stirchley]

Best - History
Worst - Art

Best: French & Latin I would say equally.

Worst: How much time do we have? Math, biology, chemistry, anything scientific, algebra, trigonometry, etc.

[nyctc7]

BEST: English/Writing
WORST: Math

Me, too. I was always much more of a word person than math person.

[Yoda]

Worst, math. Mostly lack of interest.

Best, reading. In 5th grade I think I took one reading class and they immediately pulled me out and put me in some other one.

[hownos]

With the title "What was your best and worst subjects in school?" I knew hownos was not going to list English as their best. :)

BEST: English/Writing
WORST: Math

It was a test🙂

[TheManBehindTheCurtain]

Not so much a matter of best/worst but liked/disliked. And an illustration of that John Lennon quote about life being what happens to you while you're making over plans.

High School: Choices highly influenced by well meaning (and wise) counselor
Disliked, Math, but still got pushed into four years of it leading to trig
Liked, Art. After being denied more art classes (and realizing I was talentless at art): English/Writing

University: Inertia
Disliked, Math (took and breezed through basic class)
Liked: English/Writing

Real Life: 40-year career trajectory from writing to marketing to technical marketing operations
Consistent actual skill that was a benefit: Writing
Skill I reluctantly realized I still had to use: Math

[Captain Steel]

I was kind of proud of myself in college - I took two semesters of Astronomy (classes were normal length and held twice a week) which fulfilled my entire requirement of credits for math and science for my entire college degree. Meanwhile, my fellow students who were also majoring in Visual Arts were taking classes like chemistry which had two lecture classes a week and two lab classes a week that were 3 hours each! (I always remember hearing them complain about the lab time.)

I loved Astronomy and the class (especially when they turned the lights down for slide shows - which was almost every class. For me it was nap time!)

Only thing I didn't like: first semester, the professor wrote everything we needed to know on a blackboard - I got straight A's! With the second semester we got a different, older professor - he proclaimed he was not a secretary and would not be providing our notes on a blackboard (instead, as students, we were to learn what to take notes on from his lectures and what not to). For the second semester my grade dropped from A's to C's.

[Nausicaä]

From what I can remember studying at school if you mean High School.

Worst = Maths, German, Chemistry, Physics(except Astronomy), Computer Science, Music

Best = Art, Physical Education/Sports, English, Biology, Classical Civilization, History, Geography, French

[Citizen Rules]

Best - History
Worst - Art

With the title "What was your best and worst subjects in school?" I knew @hownos (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=114001) was not going to list English as their best. :)

BEST: English/Writing
WORST: Math

It was a test🙂Huh? English not your best subject? Are you French speaking?

[hownos]

Huh? English not your best subject? Are you French speaking?

we can't change titles for some reason.

[I_Wear_Pants]

Worst: I can't learn a foreign language at all and I don't know why.

Best: Anything I put effort into doing. If I actually cared, I could have been a straight-A student (minus the foreign language subjects, of course). The problem was, from elementary through some undergrad, I didn't care. School was easy, and thusly boring, and I don't like to do boring things. In undergrad and graduate studies, when I applied myself, I typically had top marks. Imagine if I was mentally healthy and not lazy. I could have done a bunch. Oh well. You reap what you sow.

[Citizen Rules]

History/social studies were my best. If I liked the teacher I would end up with A+ That wasn't from studying because I never studied at home but I participated in the classroom discussions which the teacher was into and I enjoyed that.

Advance math was my worst, I seen no need to learn algebra and advanced math so I didn't bother to do any of my homework but just copied off the kid next to me...who it turns out was failing:p So in high school algebra: 1st quarter A because I kinda liked it, next quarter B, next quarter C and you guessed it next quarter I squeaked by with a D-. Cool class though, the teacher was really old and late to his class and we would play craps/dice for money in the back room until he told us to take our seats.


We use to have an ongoing 2 card poker game before school started in the cafeteria called Guts, where the dealer called 1,2,drop and anybody who staid in and lost had to match the money in the pot. For high school kids this could get up to $20 or more which was pretty excited until one day the staff closed it down.

[WrinkledMind]

Best: Maths, Science, Sanskrit
Worst: Drawing.

[LeBoyWondeur]

Best: Languages, although I struggled with German.
Worst: Gym class. I didn't mind the individual tasks (the stuff that's actually about gymnastics) but we usually got to play all sorts of ball games and I can't deal with rolling and flying objects. Initially I avoided these games by means of "unfortunately scheduled" doctor and dentist appointments but after a while I simply skipped the gym hours without giving a reason.

[hownos]

Best: Languages, although I struggled with German.
Worst: Gym class. I didn't mind the individual tasks (the stuff that's actually about gymnastics) but we usually got to play all sorts of ball games and I can't deal with rolling and flying objects. Initially I avoided these games by means of "unfortunately scheduled" doctor and dentist appointments but after a while I simply skipped the gym hours without giving a reason.

I never skipped gym class. We got to look a the girls.

[hownos]

Best- recess and lunch
worst- math

what about religion?

[Allaby]

what about religion?

I didn't take religion class in high school. It was optional and I never got around to it. In College, almost every class was religion class.

[hownos]

I didn't take religion class in high school. It was optional and I never got around to it. In College, almost every class was religion class.

i remember you went to bible college

[Allaby]

i remember you went to bible college

Correct. Homiletics (ie. preaching class) was my best subject in Bible college and I even won an award for doing outstanding work in the homiletics program.

[iluv2viddyfilms]

With the title "What was your best and worst subjects in school?" I knew hownos was not going to list English as their best. :)

BEST: English/Writing
WORST: Math

lol. Ass. Technically true, although nitpicking something awful there. I imagine you're referring to the faulty parallelism and unnecessary plural of "subjects."

Did you want something along the lines of: "What was your best and your worst subject in school?"

Mine:

BEST: History and Econ/Personal Finance and Gym/Health (and before anyone says that's not a subject, let's look at the obesity rates, the inactivity levels, and the amount heart disease and type II diabetes in this country)

WORST: Chemistry and Math (post Statistics) Pre-Calculus, etc.

English/Language Arts is a subject I hated originally but gradually grew to favor it more and more throughout high school, college, and my early working adult life. Of course English/Language Arts is the subject more than any other that is rife with the absolute worst teachers and worse people who go into the profession. Oddly enough however, it also happens to be the subject with the best teachers too, although they're as rare as a moment in a Chris Nolan film where the camera holds still.

[Stirchley]

Our music teacher was terrifying. Among other things her face was scarred which frightened us. One day she said we must compose a short musical piece & then perform it to the class. After 5 years of these lessons I still could not (and cannot) read music & the thought of her choosing me was horrifying. Luckily, she chose someone else. :rolleyes:

[Austruck]

Worst, math. Mostly lack of interest.

Best, reading. In 5th grade I think I took one reading class and they immediately pulled me out and put me in some other one.

You probably remember that, once you were back to homeschooling that next year, the school principal called me up and ASKED me to let you come back because you pulled up the school's averages in standardized testing. :D :D

And I remember when you hit your high school years, you asked me to switch you to math that was useful. So we started you on a consumer math course instead, and you did much better... because it was useful info and not just theoretical math.

[Austruck]

Best: English classes
Worst: Science classes

If I didn't see a need to put in a lot of time for an assignment in any class (even ones I enjoyed), and I could still get an A (or perhaps a B, depending on the class), I wouldn't waste my precious teenage time on it.

When I found out that our district didn't require taking a math or a science course past tenth grade, I dropped both of those subjects like a hot potato and substituted them with English electives instead. I think I took every English class available by the time I graduated.

When I first did this in eleventh grade, I was called into the guidance counselor's office and asked why I wasn't signed up for a science or a math class. We wrangled back and forth a bit, with him saying I would need to be more well-rounded to get into a good college, and with me saying I intended to be an English major and therefore was specializing early. :)

He couldn't stop me from taking what I wanted, so I forged ahead. No math or science after 10th grade. I applied to just one school, Carnegie Mellon, for early decision. I got in. (Early decision meant that if they accepted you, you'd go there and not apply elsewhere.) So, I guess I was right. :D

I've always been not exactly intellectually lazy, but rather intellectually picky and focused. If something interests me, I can dive pretty deep. If it doesn't, no amount of requiring me to read about it will make it sink in.

[Stirchley]

Best: English classes
Worst: Science classes

If I didn't see a need to put in a lot of time for an assignment in any class (even ones I enjoyed), and I could still get an A (or perhaps a B, depending on the class), I wouldn't waste my precious teenage time on it.

When I found out that our district didn't require taking a math or a science course past tenth grade, I dropped both of those subjects like a hot potato and substituted them with English electives instead. I think I took every English class available by the time I graduated.

When I first did this in eleventh grade, I was called into the guidance counselor's office and asked why I wasn't signed up for a science or a math class. We wrangled back and forth a bit, with him saying I would need to be more well-rounded to get into a good college, and with me saying I intended to be an English major and therefore was specializing early. :)

He couldn't stop me from taking what I wanted, so I forged ahead. No math or science after 10th grade. I applied to just one school, Carnegie Mellon, for early decision. I got in. (Early decision meant that if they accepted you, you'd go there and not apply elsewhere.) So, I guess I was right. :D

I've always been not exactly intellectually lazy, but rather intellectually picky and focused. If something interests me, I can dive pretty deep. If it doesn't, no amount of requiring me to read about it will make it sink in.

You made a lot of good decisions. You were very focused even as young as 15.

I went to a good prep school, but was extremely bored. I never knew if it was the teachers or whether it was me. :rolleyes:

[Austruck]

You made a lot of good decisions. You were very focused even as young as 15.

I went to a good prep school, but was extremely bored. I never knew if it was the teachers or whether it was me. :rolleyes:

Boredom in school could be the fault of the teachers, for sure. But it could also signal that the content/material was just not stimulating enough for you.