What were your strongest and weakest subjects in school?

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libsaretards · Accepted Answer

English was my strongest subject. I loved reading and writing. Social Studies/History was a tie, but I give credit to that to the fact that the teacher who taught this subject was the only teacher who never gave up on me, even when I wanted to give up on myself. When other teachers wrote me off as a lost cause, she took the time to get to know me. However, if we are talking which subject I had an internal knack for, English by far.

Math was my worst subject, not because it was difficult but because I felt like it was a waste of my time and the time it took to give math the attention to detail it requires to do correctly was not worth the reward of a mere grade. Also, why put effort into math when the teacher was stupid enough to write ALL her passwords down for me to give to a hacker friend to help boost my grades to "C"s. It did not help that I spent more time working towards (and eventually succeeding at) the demise of this teacher's career. She was a straight bitch to those who did not kiss her ass or have a natural talent towards math. If math was a struggle for you, she saw you as a waste of space. She was also the type of teacher who could not comprehend that I was being bullied and expected me to just take beatings instead of fighting back.

These were the grades I got in high school for the subjects I can remember:
A's: English (100% throughout all 4 years with two being AP classes), Social Studies/History, Chorus and PE
B's: Anatomy, Human Growth and Development
C's: Religious studies
D's: Pre-Algebra (took in 8th grade but counted as high school credit), Algebra, Geometry and about 4-5 other courses that I do not even recall at the moment
F's: Algebra 2, Calculus and Statistics. Algebra 2 was the class my buddy hacked to reflect a C because for some reason this was the ONLY class in my entire school that you had to pass with a "C" to get credit for and could not skate by with a "D". Calculus and Statistics were not required to graduate but were placeholder classes because my first high school required that every year a student takes a math class, regardless of whether or not the number of credits to graduate was met. These classes were exempt from my GPA calculation.

abc3643 · Accepted Answer

Strongest: Physics - It's objective
Weakest: English - It's subjective

Think about it like this:

Physics heavily uses mathematics. There's no style or subjective judging. You are either right or wrong. It's completely predictable.

By comparison, English is a wild west scenario. You don't know how you are going to be graded.

If I use a sports / games:
Physics and mathematics are like chess or checkers (draughts for you Queen's English speakers).
Well-definied rules and no need for judges. Anyone watching you play understands exactly what you have done and why and there's no argument because the rules are universally understood and applied.

But English is like ice skating or gymnastics. It's ALL judging and if the judge doesn't like you or is in a bad mood that day or is bribed to judge you harshly, you are fucked. You can't study for that or prepare for that. Everyone watching you do ice skating or gymnastics will have a different unique opinion about your performance. It's bullshit.

This is why I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: No English requirements.

tonyadunnwititall · Accepted Answer

9th grade I had 7 hours of study hall. Talk about boring. And who gets kicked out of gym and health class? Me that's who. I liked English yet after several sit downs in the hall one by one each class kicked me out and off to another hour of study hall. I was such a brat I would refuse 1 day of ISS and tell the principal or counselor I wasn't sitting a day out and sitting in a room all day. The other option was 3 days OSS needless to say I didn't think that threw and like my mom had told me I flunked that year and my friends went to high school without me

Rachelspiks · Accepted Answer

My weakest was P. E. (physical education, aka sport), because I just hate sport and I'm not very well co-ordinated, and can't even balance on one leg. I can't swim either, because I'm afraid of the water and can't stand being wet.
My favourite subjects were English, history, astronomy and physics, and they were really easy.

Lynx122 · Answer

I was strong at most subjects, biology, physics, history, English, my weakest was math because I never practiced but I was actually good in class and I was really good at doing math in my head. But by the time the tests came around I forgot half of what we did in class and I didn't do the homework to practice the variations of the problems we were working on so it was like a puzzle adventure when I did the tests and most of the time I didn't do great lol. But with the participation in class it was enough to get by.

HighValue · Answer

Strongest was always math, and the weakest when I was in high school was history because I usually found it to be boring. However, as an adult when I realized that history has many effects on how things are now, it has become more interesting and I perform significantly better than I used to.

EmbraceThePain · Answer

Strongest? PE or physical education. Also, English/literature if I remember correctly.

Weakest? Chemistry & mathematics. Why? Lack of trying and studying.

I’ve taken mathematics courses in college and gotten nearly all A’s in them, as well as hard science courses. In high school, which is what I’m remembering, I was a student that just didn’t study or apply myself in nearly anything.

Shortly after graduating, I changed quite a bit.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

In high school my worst subject was math and my best subject was history but I loved math and raised my math grade over 24% from grade 9 to grade 12. In university, my worst subject was politics and my best subject was south Asian religions because politics involves cloistered familiarity with distinct groups and I was very under skilled in that margin, and South Asian religions had a heavy relationship with visual and literary culture and those were both areas I was talented in.

JennyDunne · Answer

Strongest was art, weakest PE. As long as I brought my kit I was never asked to do anything after like first year lol.
I think the only real subject I did badly at was Biology, but I don't know if it was that I was bad at it or if the teacher just hated me

dustybiker · Answer

Math, science, strong. English was made weak. I started life in England, and thus learned all the terms early on. Came to US and the horrible American school teacher I first had marked my “terms” as incorrect. I wasn’t wrong.
Parents were pissed and I was too young to understand. I wish they had switched my classroom. Ah, the young and impressionable.

Red_Arrow · Answer

I always hated English. Found that very hard and boring. Yet when I took the tests for college admittance I scord so high in English that I was actually exempt from having to take it in college. My strongest subject was math. But when I hit college, calculus basically killed me, though I finally caught on and understood it well before graduating.

MTC29 · Answer

Math and science were my strengths. English was my weakness. I knew I'd spend my career submitting written reports, so I work hard to bring up my grades in English.

Even with a graduate engineering degree, I'd look like a fool if I was unable to form complete sentences or punctuate properly. Never mind using "words" such as wanna and gunna.

Nightroads · Answer

Strong in all subjects tested in the 84th percentile or higher.

Strongest was science and mathematics at a 97th.

Weakest was writing and comprehension with the 84th.

Yet i failed contemporary high school, i skipped roughly 60% of my junior year.

EaterPeter · Answer

Accounting, Arithmetic Everything else was cr**. Numbers were my thing I guess. Scoring subjects as what that used to be called back in the days. Typing.

es20490446e · Answer

My strongest subjects weren't available at school.

I liked to draw and make paper crafts after doing my homework during the class. The teachers didn't complain, because my qualifications were good.

I also liked to do computers when at home.

I believe that those subjects were which paid of better after all. Now I have the skill of being very creative, even when the endeavor is technical.

Jaximus-Lion · Answer

Strongest: English, math and physiquesWeakest: Arabic and history (am from the middle east). What about you?

Retiever · Answer

This was a long time ago. I had a bad reputation in school for being mean. Good side people left me alone except for the group I hung out with. The bad side I couldn’t get no where near the women I wanted to be with.

nawtee_me · Answer

English was my worst and While Algebra was pretty good, at the age of 48 I went to college for the first time and to show how much things changed. I had to take two semesters of high school Algebra before taking college Algebra and I tutored college English at the academic learning center. Go figure...

Lliam · Answer

My strongest were the arts - music theory, ancient art history, jewelry making. I also loved history, cultural anthropology and geology.

I'm not into science. My weakest was math. I also disliked philosophy and psychology.

TheorionMage · Answer

Pragmatic sciences, Speech, Debate, Graphic Arts, marksmanship, martial arts (strongest)
Advanced Mathematics (70 years and I've NEVER had to add 'alphabet' letters)
and advanced foreign languages and typical team sports (weakest)

Phoenix98 · Answer

My weakest subject was math which is ironic since my current job deals with a lot of math and numbers and what I went to school for required a lot of more complex math lol.

My strongest subjects were history and science.

Nomina · Answer

My strongest were French class (it would be the equivalent of English class in English speaking countries), philosophy and history. My weakestm were maths, chemistry/physics.

Jlegacy · Answer

I was strongest in subjects I flunked at the end. I never took failure lightly.
Funny thing though, I passed all subjects. Never failed any but if I did, the next term, I'd be first or second in that subject.

DaveToo · Answer

Strongest? English and History. Weakest? Math and Math.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

The weakest subject for me was Youth n Law and easy to pass and I made Straight A's in that class  The Strongest subject that I should have never taken was Pschycolgy, never  could pass that class

Andres77 · Answer

History was best. I hated anything that required writing.

Apulu_3 · Answer

Strongest - SST and English Weakest - Maths and my home town language (I still manage to get nice mark in maths. I'm just not interested in it)

normalice · Answer

I don't think I ever got less than a perfect score on a math test. And I don't think i got anything above a D on any sort of English or writing test.

suisuiola · Answer

Strongest were art, music, English, Mandarin and French Weakest were Math and Science, anything involving sciences.

Miss_Wats0n · Answer

Weakest Science and Maths. Strongest whole of literature and language include psychology and criminology.

ArrowheadSW · Answer

Strongest were math and science. Weakest, maybe classes such as English Lit, but I still did well. Just not my strongest.

doopayo · Answer

language arts/world history/biology  And my weakest being algebra/calculus

Medhat-M · Answer

Actually I had no weak ones.. I hated math and chemistry but got good grades... I've always been in the top 10 students in my school... but I never acted like a nerd or something hehe

iWantToCry · Answer

The strongest was definitely math The weakest was probably English/literature. I just couldn't get into learning a language I was already fluent in.

Massageman · Answer

Strong? Sciences. Weak? classic literature- didn't have much of it and even THAT was too much. HS kids may or may not be at a point to understand some/many of the concepts therein.

MCheetah · Answer

Strongest: Science, History, Geography, English, Art. Weakest: Math, Foreign Languages, IT.

Datboi65 · Answer

Strongest: Physics, Math, Chemistry, English, PE Weakest: History, ICT

silkjames · Answer

My strongest science, math, history, I sucked in English class always got passing grade tho so I could play sports lol

Diodoro · Answer

Strongest: Math/Science  Weakest: English. Bane of my existence

Jessica405 · Answer

My strongest were computer science and physics. My worst were art and English literature.

tatianamay · Answer

Strong- Physics, chemistry, biology and English  Weak- math

DonkeyDan · Answer

The sciences were my strongest, and geography and history were my weakest.

SphynxUK · Answer

English lit and language were easy for me, but I struggled with maths.

EternallyCorrect · Answer

My strongest subjects were math and science. My weakest subject was English.

OddBeMe · Answer

I’d read the entire history textbook before the school year even began but algebra just seemed so illogical. But in college I took Statistics where math was put into play and I excelled.

Jayplays900 · Answer

Strongest? History by far, and I am good at Physical and Astronomical Sciences. But I despise Mathematics and anything to do with Biology. Despise it.

TapDancingSpider · Answer

weakest maths and strongest literature, history, biology and chemistry

GhostMochi · Answer

Strongest: English  Weakest: History (Just found it so boring)

AlexanderAnttila · Answer

English and History were strongest. Math was weakest.

IveGotNoName · Answer

Very stereotypically: Strongest: Physics, chemistry and math, science in general Weakest: PE

Wester1967 · Answer

Strongest - writing and journalism  Weakest - Female psychology

JakeS00 · Answer

Strength: English and writing  Weakness: Math and Science

exitseven · Answer

French was my worst subject. I did the best in science.

ChiPaPa · Answer

I was a good, rounded student. The main issue I had was complex equations. I had tutors to help in Maths. Both in high school and college.

jasco · Answer

Biology, English mind the grammar, history. We’re my strongest. Math science other biology, PE we’re my weakness

loveslongnails · Answer

English and Music were my strongest, Chemistry my weakest.

Riddler1412 · Answer

Strongest: P. E. physics, chemistry, English, biology, philosophy, and art. Weakest geography.

Renegade_Sailor · Answer

Alcohol consumption and weight lifting. That was high school. 😳

NightOwl8801 · Answer

Math was the absolute worst subject for me , I had to get help every single time for it... History , JROTC and English were my best three subjects

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

I’m pretty much good in all subjects and got A’s but I guess the subject that I struggled the most in would be math and my best one would be history

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Strongest = Reading/English Weakest = Math. I didn't like to study so I struggled with Math.

Totesperf · Answer

Strongest in Social Studies and Linguistics. (Almost identical) Weakest in Mathematics.

zagor · Answer

Strongest: Math Weakest: Psychology, because the teacher taught one particular theory as fact.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

I was terrible in math and french. Biology and German were pretty good

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