What Were Your Best/Worst Subjects at School?

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What were you good at? What were you bad at? Did you enjoy the subjects you were good at and hate the ones you were bad at or was it just the luck of the draw?

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[–]VioletRemi 11 insightful - 6 fun11 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

I was good at everything, but my favourite were physics and astronomy.

[–]CJLez[S] 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Best Subjects

I was a few years ahead of the other kids in reading, and being curled up with a book was my favourite hobby so any subject with a lot of reading I was great at. Mainly history (which I loved, Horrible History books were my jam), English (language and literature) and RE. Surprisingly I never got my head around French though. Sciences and maths were a bit above average but nothing spectacular.

Worst Subjects

I have always had horrendous hand-eye coordination and, though I'm good at typing, my hands will not do anything else they're told (to the point of several years of mandatory after-school handwriting classes to make me legible). Two of my worst subjects were Art and Music. This was a small rural school in the 90s so, if a child was struggling in a lesson, it wasn't because there was something going on (in my case probably undiagnosed dyspraxia), it meant one thing and one thing only - the child was obviously not trying hard enough. Art and Music were mandatory until age 13 but from 8 years old I was punished by having to sit there and watch the other kids play instruments/paint because I 'didn't deserve to participate in the class if I wasn't going to try' despite trying my hardest every single time.

Nowadays I love going to the gym and walking but my worst lessons at school were PE. Not only did I have my co-ordination issues, I also had a huge amount of trouble with left versus right, a lopsided gait, severe asthma, poor eyesight, a tendency to fall over several times an hour and I was an absolute runt, both in terms of weight and height. Yeah, PE was never going to end well.

I wasn't the 'picked last' kid, I was the 'team captains having screaming matches about why I shouldn't be on their team until the teacher forced one side to have me' kid. I wasn't the slow-running kid, I was the kid who was given a cross-country course that was 50% shorter than everyone else's course and still came last every week.

The height of my physical prowess was joining the afterschool badminton club - after three years of classes I hit the shuttlecock over the net twice. Not twice in one go. Twice in the whole three years. At least I can laugh now about how hilariously useless I was at sports.

[–]Innisfree 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

5th grade, 10 glorious mins of playing Mephistopheles. The audience did not feel the same :) We should have staged Pokemon.

Otherwise, school was like living with the Dursleys.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was more excited for FFA and 4H then actual school. Managed to kick ass in math and anything PE related.

[–]beholdyourheart 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My best subjects were English and science. I was godawful at math and PE. Though honestly even in the subjects I did good in I was still not a great student because I was unbelievably lazy and forgetful and rarely handed in assignments on time or at all; I just relied on the system in my school where we took a final exam and if the mark was higher than our regular grade it'd replace it. I managed to graduate high school with pretty good grades on that alone, I would have flunked otherwise lmao - I really hated high school.

Weirdly now that I'm in university I've taken more of an interest in math and sciences since it's relevant for my degree, but it took a while to get over the knee-jerk panic response from seeing any math equation that would just shut my brain down (which in hindsight may have contributed to why I was so bad at math lol).

[–]Lessom 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My favourite subjects were PE, Maths and History. My history teacher was such a hottie which was an added bonus. Liked Art but was really bad at it.

Subjects I didn’t enjoy were languages. Did French and Spanish and found it difficult.

[–]lmaonope333 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Favorite- Language Arts, History, Biology

Least Favorite- Maths, Bible, religious law

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good: English, Math, Art Bad: geography

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i was the best at art and band/music! worst at everything else lol. while i did get high test scores in english, i couldn't write the homework essays to save my life. like my brain just wouldn't do it. couldn't understand math at all. my notebooks were like 90% bad anime drawings, 10% notes lmao. still kinda surprised i graduated 😬

[–]RedditHatesLesbians 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm still in school, and I'm not particularly bad at anything but my favourite subjects are English, Biology and Psychology. I love learning about the human body and the brain and I've always been a huge bookworm as well as very into writing.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Favourite / best: english, art, history. Liked but not very good at: french, music, PE (I actually likes sports but I didn't play them much because my friends weren't into them. I liked soccer, ground hockey, netball). Bad at: maths, science (I wouldn't say I was bad, but I think I have some sort of undiagnosed learning disability going on that makes it hard to follow steps).

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good at: Most math, English, foreign languages, History, Chemistry, Physics

Bad at: Geometry, other sciences, PE (we actually took tests in PE!), actually speaking proficiently in foreign languages

Favorite: History

Least favorite: Math, all sciences

My family is mainly in STEM related fields, so not going into STEM when I decent at some subjects was catastrophic.

[–]plotbunny 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good: all language courses. A random assortment of other classes (sciences, music, etc) if the teacher was good.

Bad: Math and art. I've grown to like linear algebra though.

[–]carrotcake 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Best at: language related stuff, history, geometry, philosophy

Worst at: chemistry and physical education. I also grew to hate some aspects of biology, but I wasn't bad at it.

I'm very into humanities and I study things related to it but I kinda miss physics and math.

[–]WildwoodFlower 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Best subjects: English, social studies

Worst subject: Math

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Best in art.

Worst in writing essays.

Good at everything else when I wanted to, but incredibly lazy and never did any homework.

[–]knownasness 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i didn't have a 'worst' subject, school is easy. i definitely didn't care for history class though. stem courses have always been my fave, but i performed best in maths. and i'm a jock so PE was also a fav.

[–]MrFahrenheit46 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Best Subjects: Reading, writing, history, geography (I'm a very visual learner).

Worst Subjects: Algebra, chemistry, certain parts of biology.