Have you ever been failed at school?

[silver_surfer]

Haven't failed yet... Although most of the time I used to study a day before the exam, still I managed to score good grades in school § high school.

[Leon_C]

I failed a Biology exam one time, but I got an A on the next one having not revised any differently. Biology examiners must be retarded, or maybe I am retarded.

[gregorius]

No,

[Melina]

There was just one class I failed at the university and that was the writing class then I did the class again and passed. The professor though was very strict.

[gregorius]

I failed at Quantum Physics part 2 last year but I managed to pass after the second time

[Piparskeggr]

Addenda to my previous comments...

Early last year I applied to my alma mater (Norwich University, the military college in Vermont, USA) to return as a nontraditional completion student and was accepted.

They looked at my record and took out a couple of courses, which are no longer taught. They also accepted credits I earned at the Springfield Technical and US Air Force Community Colleges I attended.

This left me with 2 courses to take.

Last Summer (June - August 2012) I got an A in Professional and Technical Writing.

This Summer (studies interrupted by the move from Illinois to Maryland) I earned an A in World Economy and Globalization.

My graduation date is 24 August 2013, 38 years to the day from when I first set foot on campus.

[blklady2013]

No, but I've had some close calls.
Three words: Self-Paced Astronomy
Why the hell would I do that to myself? Of course I waited until 2 weeks before the course is over to try and cram in and entire semester's worth of unit lessons. Because I'm trifling like that sometimes.
But I do know what a redshift is now and I can tell you about event horizons on black holes and electromagnetic waves in space...lol!

[alb0zfinest]

Haven't failed. But to me grades, awards are useless. Not a very good way to determines ones intelligence.

[Dandelion]

No, but I've had some close calls.
Three words: Self-Paced Astronomy
Why the hell would I do that to myself? Of course I waited until 2 weeks before the course is over to try and cram in and entire semester's worth of unit lessons. Because I'm trifling like that sometimes.
But I do know what a redshift is now and I can tell you about event horizons on black holes and electromagnetic waves in space...lol!

I tend to delay when I had a few easy exams in a row I hardly had to study for and then comes the underestimation of the course that follows.
Sucks to cram in all that material while you could study it at a far slower easier pace (with free time to spare).

[Bartuc]

Haven't failed. But to me grades, awards are useless. Not a very good way to determines ones intelligence.

Yes. Finishing school and getting a college degree is important as it shows you have the drive and the discipline required in order to succeed (specially when applying to a job), even knowing some classes are a waste of time. As for it judging someone's intelligence is a matter of debate. Intelligence (and we are talking about "potential") has nothing to do with the level of education you have. Some studies show a positive correlation between intelligence and time in school/university but it's not a rule. I find that is more related to discipline and grit.

I know lots of idiotic people with degrees (typical parrots) and some brilliant minds that didn't finish high-school but read a lot, think a lot and are very original in their ideas while they find formal education very boring, lack the grit, discipline, motivation and yet they know how to connect the dots between various disciplines.

There is also a big difference between conceptual and procedural knowledge. And most Universities and schools are failing miserably in connecting these two.