How many school subjects did you fail?

[bcla]

I was college bound, maybe thats why. I ended up at the local junior college though so probably wasn't really necessary in the end.

At least in California, the only entrance requirement for entry into full-time community college is a high school degree. Still - if someone was entering trying to transfer to a 4-year college there might be some catching up to do.

I looked at my old school district's class listings. Seems a bit different than what I remember. Physics is now considered an honors class. More AP classes. But the non-college prep classes are fairly nondescript. Just "English" or "math".

 

[Kittyblue]

At least in California, the only entrance requirement for entry into full-time community college is a high school degree. Still - if someone was entering trying to transfer to a 4-year college there might be some catching up to do.

I looked at my old school district's class listings. Seems a bit different than what I remember. Physics is now considered an honors class. More AP classes. But the non-college prep classes are fairly nondescript. Just "English" or "math".

My intentions were a 4 year university. My parents (and my) wallet said community college LOL. It was probably a smart choice since I didn't know for sure what I wanted a degree in. As it turns out, my first degree was an AS with career training only offered at the CC.

 

[bcla]

My intentions were a 4 year university. My parents (and my) wallet said community college LOL. It was probably a smart choice since I didn't know for sure what I wanted a degree in. As it turns out, my first degree was an AS with career training only offered at the CC.

There's always going in "undeclared". But that still requires meeting class requirements.

I never really understood movies where they show remedial students improving and then managing to get into to colleges. What I remember from my high school days was a strong effort was needed even as far back as the 7th grade. If there isn't a solid 4 years of performance, nobody is going to manage that. The movies Stand and Deliver fictionalized it in a way that was unrealistic. The actual teacher in that movie developed a program at his school over years where his students were actually prepared over an entire 4 years of high school rather than playing catch up.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I didn’t fail but did horrible in geometry otherwise all A or B but as for geometry still don’t understand it I’m sure someone uses it just my brain says ah nope !

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Just Geometry. I hated math but took algebra my freshman year of high school which I barely passed with a low C. The only option I had as a Sophomore was geometry, which I got all D’s and F’s in. Oddly enough they let me graduate with only 1 math credit. I should have had 2.

 

[TippyThomas]

None. My parents would have probably disowned me if I had.

 

[prairie_girl]

I failed Grade 11 math. 70% of the class did too, so it was definitely a teacher issue. I took it in summer school and got like a 85 or something.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

0

But dropped a class in high school that I knew I wouldn’t pass (and didn’t need).

And got a passing grade in Stats in college. Walked into the final knowing what I had to get to get the C- I needed.

 

[DISNEY1975]

I didnt fail the whole term, but did fail a major part of biology. I refused to even enter the classroom when dissecting the worm and the frog. I ended with a D- ! Oh well....35+ years later, I have never had to use any of that knowledge....or Algebra, but I still aced it!

 

[donaldbuzz&minnie]

1- embarrassing but it was sewing, lol. I can now sew on a button and that's about it.

That makes me so mad! I remember taking sewing in the 7th grade and thinking that if I didn't already know how to sew (my grandmother taught me), I'd never do it again. We had to line up to have the teacher check every stupid seam. I hate it when teachers not only don't do a good job teaching their subjects, but end up with kids hating a subject they might have at least been neutral about before that teacher got a hold of them.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Calculus and AP Chemistry in HS. Got overextended my senior year and was having real coping issues. I wanted to drop them and the principal wouldn't allow it. Talked to the teachers and told them I wouldn't be trying anymore. I hated it but I didn't feel like I had an alternative.

 

[goofyernmost]

1 for me geography - awful at it

I failed one, and that was French I in high school. I hated it and if I had passed it they required that I take French II the next year. So I intentionally failed it so I could take English literature instead. Never regretted it, but now that I live in the south, I do so wish I had been able to take Spanish.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

Physics in College. A few times but different ones as I had to take several being in Health Science. Hated Physics. Nothing in high school.

Same here - physics in college. I don't even know why I struggled with it but I barely squeaked by with a D.

I also technically failed my Thermodynamics class for my engineering major, got a 56 for my final grade. Lucky for me, the highest grade in the class was a 62 so there ended up being a HUGE curve.

Then there was the polymer engineering class that I took a couple of years ago that I had no business being in. I could talk my way through the topics, but didn't have the chemistry background to put it down on paper in the correct way when it came to taking tests. I'm not sure what happened but I think the professor must have taken pity on me, my F miraculously turned into a C overnight.

 

[loves to dive]

0

 

[BrianL]

I never got an F in any classes through High School, but I did get "U - Unacceptible" in Handwriting when I was younger because my writing has always been always sloppy.

 

[RUDisney]

The only HS class in which I struggled was Chemistry. I got an A in it, but it was so boring that I struggled. The teacher said I should have taken AP Chem so I'd have more of a challenge and it would have held my interest. I sailed through Physics, because I took AP. I entered college with 34 AP credits and was able to use 33 of them. I started as a sophomore and graduated in 2.5 years with a 4-year degree.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Differential Equations in college - it's from the devil; pure evil. If you don't know what that is, believe me, you are better for it.

 

[MillauFr]

I didn't fail, but there was a certain math class in college that I didn't do very well at. It was still considered passing though, so I could move on to the next class in the math sequence for my major, where I got a much better grade.

The strange thing was that in grad school we had an "applied math" requirement for my major. They were all classified as graduate level courses, but the material was 100% undergraduate level. One of the classes I took was some of the same material I didn't do well in at the undergraduate level, and I absolutely aced the class. I was talking with some of my classmates, and they said it would be extremely easy for someone who had done it before. I got much better at it the second time around.

I had a similar experience. In my Junior year at the University of Minnesota I took advanced regression analysis. There were 12 students in the class. 11 of them were graduate students and myself. I think most of the grad students were employees from 3M working in QA/QC. They were very smart. I failed the class. Ouch.

I took a similar class during Grad School at the University of Washington. I did much better. I got an A. Professor and I got along great because I was the only one asking questions during class and I used to work with her husband.

 

[belle032]

I was really close to failing Statistics my freshman year of college. I only took it because my advisor told me I needed it. Guess what? I didn't.

 

[Magical2017]

Zero.