Have you ever been failed at school?

Peyrol · 11-14-2011, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Italian Norman

I am not. If yes or no, write the reason.

No, never failed.

Vincere, o morir!

**rhiannon** · 11-14-2011, 11:50 AM

Yes. Many times in high school, actually. I failed a couple things in junior high as well....this is when the crap with my mom's boyfriend started escalating...

My failures were not reflective of inability to do the work....the were a direct consequence of my attitude and general lack of desire to try doing my work

They were nobody's fault but mine.

My undergraduate work, however, was exemplary.

**Magister Eckhart** · 11-14-2011, 07:50 PM

I've never failed on anything, ever, in relation to school.

**Allenson** · 11-14-2011, 08:31 PM

No but I came pretty damn close my freshman year in college. Scraped by by the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin.

**Rygg** · 11-14-2011, 08:33 PM

Once, i had to redo my second year of highschool, i was 14 at the time and going through puberty pretty badly. I really sucked back then, but afterwards i never failed, allways been top of my class with minimal effort, but that's mostly because I was never bad at school, I just wasn't interested.

**~~Laudanum~~** · 11-14-2011, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by Rygg

Once, i had to redo my second year of highschool, i was 14 at the time and going through puberty pretty badly. I really sucked back then, but afterwards i never failed, allways been top of my class with minimal effort, but that's mostly because I was never bad at school, I just wasn't interested.

Same here.

**~~Laubach~~** · 11-14-2011, 09:48 PM

No, I've never failed. Though not good at math, I always study and overcome this deficiency. Overall, I was a good student

**Oreka Bailoak** · 11-14-2011, 10:02 PM

No. The hardest class I've ever taken was AP Calculus-BC I and II senior year of high school. One guy in my class went to Harvard and he actually made an 84 on an exam in that class lol. I made a 78 the first semester

. Schools are really uneven from high school to high school in course rigor.

In college freshman year my friend had a 3.75 GPA and I had a 3.0 GPA and we had one class together. I made an 89 and he got a 72- so the major you select and the courses you take matter a lot. School is really unfair.

Some of my friends who got into medical school/pharmacy school would take one BS class every semester to fluff their GPA; education classes, music class, foreign language that they already knew etc.

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**rhiannon** · 11-15-2011, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Oreka Bailoak

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Some of my friends who got into medical school/pharmacy school would take one BS class every semester to fluff their GPA; education classes, music class, foreign language that they already knew etc.

I am one of the only persons in my medical school class to have graduated high school with a GPA of 1.7, never took the SAT or ACT, but managed to do very well in college and later at the university level. That's what got me in...along with the fact I was a single mom who had turned her life 180°, which apparently impressed several executive admissions committee members

Never did anything to fluff the college GPA, either. Stupid me!

Failure at school is generally not a reflection of intellect....but of effort and work ethic.

**~~Han Cholo~~** · 11-15-2011, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Laubach

No, I've never failed. Though not good at math, I always study and overcome this deficiency. Overall, I was a good student

I used to be very good at math. I've probably now lost of my habilities as I've not used complex (or semi complex rather) maths since high school (that's more than 7 years ago) as what I'm studying right now does not make much use of it.

I liked maths because it was just doing concrete operations and processing simple rules, no need to memorize big things, subjetive concepts, study long pages.