What classes did you "bomb" in school?

Question

I was bombing English and math in early years. It was all emotional problems and lack of support. College... got the job done!

nightdrot · Accepted Answer

There is no doubt on this one - math. To be sure I was no athlete, but for whatever reason I managed good grades in gym class. By contrast, math is what stood between a full ride scholarship to college for me and the half-ride scholarship I ultimately received upon graduation from high school.

It was "math-phobia" that was born in the early days of academic career. I was generally a scholarly kid and a reader. So when I started school reading was a breeze, but my mother had not been, herself, a math student and so really never introduced me to it.

To wit, the first time a kindergarten teacher put a math test - simple addition problems - in front of me, I remember quietly freaking out and I have never recovered. To this day I carry a calculator even when I swim.

My best math grade ever was a "B" - in high school, mostly because I liked the teacher I think. For the most part, though, it was "C's" and "D's."

So I went, after graduating college, into a career in politics. Thus the national debt we have to this day.

Lliam · Accepted Answer

The only subject I bombed in high school was Spanish. I took it in summer school to pass. I didn't take high school seriously and would also cut classes to party. In the end, I didn't get excellent grades but I passed and got my diploma.

I went straight to community college part time after high school, but had kind of the same attitude when it came to the general ed classes. I did well in the ones I liked, though, especially the electives.

I quite college when I got a good corporate job. I later went back to complete my AA degree when I was around 30 years old. At that point, my attitude had changed and I got the top grade in all of my courses. I enjoyed college a lot when I was more mature.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

bomb means fail? strange never heard of that in my entire life.

I failed algebra 2 years because the teacher I had did not know how to explain to me properly. When my sister explained it to me it was so easy but I had already failed, I learned how to do it fast just with 10 mins or less of my sister explaining. When this happened to me I realized that sometimes when some kids don't understand something perhaps those kids just need to have multiple people explain it in different ways, and it's just a matter of which way you understand and not because you don't want to understand, the mind works in different ways for different people.

anyway that was the only class I was always failing which made me believe that I hated math but it was wrong, because when I learned it I liked it!

midnightmoon05 · Accepted Answer

I failed gym purposely.
I failed bio. because we were too busy making fun of the teacher.
I failed school period.
I am so glad I didn’t listen 1/2 of the time…otherwise I wouldn’t have been as successful as I am today.
School is structured to follow rules and get a job.
I need more than a job to keep me enjoying life/busy and feel good about who I am with what I do outside of my job.
Glad it’s working out.
Thank you for being my partner in crime. Together we will conquer!! Hahahaa!! Ready for the challenges? 😘😝

msmissydc · Answer

I was always much better in writing than math or things like biology, chemistry or physics. My best grade was in political science. I was good in that so if I bombed something than that, but I also had the advanced course in English (for me foreign language) which wasn't bad either. My second foreign language was Nederlands which I wasn't that good in. I could have great in german if I wouldn't hated poetry analysis. Technically what I learned in german is now my job so... yeah.

AviatorTom · Answer

I never real "bombed" any course. In high school, my worst subject was History. In college, I was given a barely passing grade in Thermodynamics because the instructor didn't like me, and didn't want to see me again if he failed me... I actually understood the material, just preferred doing it my way, not the way he wanted it.

Sour-rose · Answer

Math. I used to love math but then it got hard as hell... then i hated it. :) I might be wise but math is my weakest subject. If you say
"SR, what's 12x62, plus 18 divided by 2?"

I'm gonna short circut. :)

Potteplante · Answer

I got kicked out of design for being a no show to classes. Had no interest for me whatsoever but I made up for that with social studies on a higher level - was more relevant to my desired degree.

Apulu_Imback · Answer

I never failed any subject ever in my school life. Hey I'm an Asian student with strict parents! I can't afford failing lol!

Anonymous · Answer

i’ve been in highschool for the past 6 years bc i’ve flunked 2x. i failed every class except the classes teachers just passed me up so they wouldn’t get me next year. hoping things gets better but i have no motivation ❤️

DubiousIntentions · Answer

I bombed Chemistry and Algebra. I mean who needs that stuff anyway, right?

Pinay_ako · Answer

I had a 74 on PE!!!  I hated every second of Calculus and Chemistry! 😡  I barely made it 🤣 but graduated top number 28 out of 400+ students in senior year. I guess my other subjects saved me

Anonymous · Answer

math. had a tutor and everything by my senior year or i wouldn't have passed. in college, yeah i passed every single math class because i didn't want to deal with that ever again.

WonderBell99 · Answer

Never failed a class in my life, but my grades were a bit down in the first few months of junior year. Thankfully, I took some extra classes and got it covered.

I didn’t totally suck at it, I just lost interest in the middle because the transition from 10th grade to 11th was pretty big and everything seemed so difficult. I was also preparing for a competitive exam, so I was super stressed.

Unit1 · Answer

I excelled in English. Grade 5-7 only A and B. Grade 8 mostly E. What changed? The English teacher.

Sareuh90 · Answer

I’m just not good at it I’m more of an English gal

najekim · Answer

Couldn't stand English and it showed in my grades. But I had to take it. pht!

LiamJHayden · Answer

Reading in sixth grade. The teacher wanted us to read some a chapter in some lame book and write down a plot summary. I was reading Dante by then and neglected to do the plot summary. He gave me a D because he knew I was an avid reader, but he told me I deserved "F."

Sparkie460 · Answer

I failed math because I had a lousy teacher. She explained everything once and only once.  I passed p. e. by the skin of my teeth because I showed up for attendance then cut out

Anonymous · Answer

I tried so hard to understand stuff. Anything I grasped was English, Mathematics and Computers. Did not finish anything past the 7th grade.

DaisyM23 · Answer

there've always been subjects that i fluctuated in during school but did really well in my final exams in - but the one subject that stuck out for me in being bad in BOTH was graphics (design and technology basically)

msc545 · Answer

Organic Chem was damn near the ned of me. I have never worked that hard in my life for an A and almost didn't get it. To this day I hate chemistry.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

My lowest mark was History, however, I came to love that class in the latter grades of High School and did a lot better. I always did well in the math/sciences.

musicbrain5 · Answer

I was a decent student, average, not super exceptional. But I didn’t do well with Calculus. I just squeaked by enough to get the credit I needed to graduate.

leahzrc · Answer

gym I skipped gym all the time because I didnxt want to sweat my makeup off and I used to cake it on with a glam look everyday. Now I only wear mascara

Adam1978 · Answer

Gym class because my friend was fat and I was always paired with him. That and my family couldn't afford skates to us kids.

Princess3335 · Answer

I cheated throughout all 2 of my science courses in high school and got 70s. But English is were I'd sometimes struggle.

exitseven · Answer

I had4 years of high school French. I am lucky if I can order Soup DuJour in a restaurant

sage2021 · Answer

I didn't do good in any classes so I guess a bombed in all of them. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Nikki1989 · Answer

I was good at everything except math.

Anemone978 · Answer

Math.. I always skipped school a lot so missed a lot of math lessons...

Pterodon · Answer

All of them. I hated every second of school and quit when I was old enough. I’ve never regretted it. I still did my dream job for my dream company without a GED and proved everyone wrong

NathanDavis · Answer

none... I just quit college all the same

Googlemyahoo · Answer

Did bad in math all the way through.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

Math and french were my weaknesses

AngryCarl2 · Answer

Bomb classes what does it mean?

Jazzy54 · Answer

Math.

Slim57 · Answer

Math

TacosRAwesome · Answer

English literature.

Joker_ · Answer

@Degenerate lol...

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