Whats your least favourite subject?

Steve01

So which of your subjects do you absolutely hate? My choice would be History. The format of the course is downright annoying. We're given 4 whole textbooks to study and when it comes to the exam we only answer one question on each entire book (though there are 4 choices for each question). The Department do their best to word the questions as awkwardly as possible too. Oh why oh why didn't I pick Geography

Naikon

History, and to an extent English.
History is such a pain due to the courses size,and it doesent help that the course is so memory heavy.
There is little analytical emphises on the course,its more about writing out pages of scrawl and actually trying to memorise pages of detail.
History hands down:)

Steve01

Here here. I've decided to learn off the sections of the course that seem important and ignore everything else(for example in the Ireland 1916-1949 section I'm focusing on the Eucharistic Congress, Ireland during WWII, Fianna Fail's economic policies and writers of the New Ireland). Pretty much learning off these sections word for word and then vomiting them onto the page in the exam. It worked for the Christmas test anyway, got myself a B so I did!

Rozabeez

For the exam itself, probably history or english, however for a subject, as in learning it...then home ec.

geminilady

Has to be english hands down, then prob home ec.

tolosenc

Economics. Too much crap to learn.

Attol

I loved Business and kept getting A1s in all our assignments and got a B2 on our first big exam yet I got a D for effort and progress in my Christmas report. I'm gutted and now hate the stupid subject. I'm doing the whole course in 1 year and thought I was progressing brilliantly!

I don't particularly like the composition aspect of English either because I know it'll go either brilliantly or I'll freeze and fail horribly. I'm not bad at English but creative writing has always been my downfall. The mocks will be very useful in helping me figure out what to focus on.

JC 2K3

French.

Why oh why are we forced to study a Europeon language?

It's not a hard exam, I just despise it.

History is a hard exam but I love it

1huge1

^^ should of gone with German

my worst id say is honours Biology its fairly hard
though being in a classroom with 2 guys (myself included) and 23 girls can be preety distracting

madgal

English English English English English English English English English English English English English English

I hate it with a passion. The poetry is depressing, and suicidal. MacBeth is vicious and brutal, and the essay are crap! Need I say any more.

Insect Overlord

My least favourite subject would have to be Honors Maths. I was more than willing to put myself in the top class at the start of 5th year, but at the halfway point of 6th year I find myself completely lost. Dodgey teacher...

Also, while Irish is probably my strongest subject, I'm starting to get sick of it. Again, this is purely down to a teacher.

Limerick Dude

Physics, English, there all pretty gay.

Nehpets

Odd, I love english.

Hate Irish but I am doing pass so it's grand. I hate physics with a passion. I just can't do it at all... argh

German is annoying too but I don't mind it as much.

Limerick Dude

Im pretty good at English but i still hate it if that makes sense, its just so much effort and utter bollox writing essays and the like.

Rozabeez

English is alright....there's just SO MUCH of it.

qz

Irish and English sometimes. Everything else seems pretty alright to learn.

Steve01

Admittedly English is a pain in the hole. I don't think it comes down to 'do you enjoy English?' so much as 'do you enjoy writing until all that remains of your hand is a fleshy stump?'...

...Ok maybe the imagery is a bit over-the-top but you get the idea

Rozabeez

/me glances at fleshy stumps.


Over the top? Speak for yourself....!

Fobia

Chemistry. I'm going to assume by the above that none of you do chemistry. How anyone could do chemistry and not consider it their least favourite subject, I'll never understand. It's so, so, so extremely annoying.

JC 2K3

I understand Chemistry, the amount of facts and definitions to be learned off are a bitch though(and it's not like Physics where once you understand it you essentially know it and can simply learn forumulae rather than definintions).

Definately not my least favourite though, I find all the Organic Chemistry really interesting.

Your Man

Fobia wrote:

Chemistry. I'm going to assume by the above that none of you do chemistry. How anyone could do chemistry and not consider it their least favourite subject, I'll never understand. It's so, so, so extremely annoying.

agree with you there...its a load of bollocks, some of the calculations on the experiments are impossible...theres no rhyme or reason to them, an example being the redox titrations, it doesnt help ive a terrible teacher

Mushy

Physics is one I despise. Irish is another but thats mainly Paper 2. There the ordinary levels so it could be worse. I'll have to go with English. Crap teacher, crap poetry...just mind-numbingly boring subject. Am looking forward till the evening of the 6th of June when it'll be all over

Famous_Séamus

Your Man wrote:

agree with you there...its a load of bollocks, some of the calculations on the experiments are impossible...theres no rhyme or reason to them, an example being the redox titrations, it doesnt help ive a terrible teacher

I agree as well. More so then any other subject, you require a fairly broad knowledge of the subject. Of course this is good in a learning sence, however having to learn so many equations and stuff, when you dont know where they came from is extremely difficult. I was getting better at it for a while....but now Im going down hill again. Why did I listen to all the people saying "You need a Science subject..."

JC 2K3

You don't need to learn many equations in Chemistry, and you should have at least a general idea of where the equations you do have to learn came from if not a full understanding.....

JBoyle4eva

I despise the honors English course, particularly comparative as the texts we've chosen weren't that particualarly interesting.

However, as for learning, it's gotta be Home Ec. Love half the course(Social studies & Consumer section) but I'm finding the food science section particularly drawn out and complex.

MadSambuka

English should be banned

Rozabeez

Hardly.

Haven't a Clue

Physics, Maths and French.

I don't mind English as it's one of my strongest subjects, as is history...

BFassassin

I hate History with a passion.

We have had a substitute teacher in for this past few months and He is far better than the other teacher that I've had by far!

The shear amount of useless stuff you have to learn is just awful.

The rest of the subjects should be grand imo.

JC 2K3

BFassassin wrote:

I hate History with a passion.

We have had a substitute teacher in for this past few months and He is far better than the other teacher that I've had by far!

The shear amount of useless stuff you have to learn is just awful.

Define "useful".

What did you expect to be learning when you picked history?

fonpokno

does nobody hate biology? its like the stupidest subject on the planet! i dont care about how plants work....:(

md99

For me, it's maths, I absolutely detest that load of boll***s

Then again there's those who are the opposite, love maths and hate english. Depends on each persons frame of mind really..

Corruptedmorals

fonpokno wrote:

does nobody hate biology? its like the stupidest subject on the planet! i dont care about how plants work....:(

I hate it too! The terminology sucks, (attenuating, instead of weakening etc.) and it's so..broad! I kinda had to pick it, because the other subjects in that block were aco*******, art and eh, construction. o_0

KnifeWRENCH

ENGLISH
i hate english because the exam is so unpredicatble.
paper 1:the comprehending texts could have absolutely ANY theme...and it could be one where you have absolutey no interest.the composing section can very easily go horribly,horribly wrong.
paper 2: macbeth quotes are very hard to learn off.comparative study weve read our texts but havent answered questions yet.unseen poetry is a bitch,thank go its worth so little marks or id be screwed.and the prescribed poetry (which i think is probably the easiest section) can also go against you if the questions dont suit.
at least in all the other papers you have some idea what will come up,but english is the exam where you can be least prepared and caught completely offguard,no matter how much work you do.

andrew

by farr hons. math. that subject is the most impossible, stupid,crap, **** subject in the world. i got an A in my jr. cert, and now im barely passing! crap teacher. i hate maths soooo much ahhhh!

Selphie

andrew wrote:

by farr hons. math. that subject is the most impossible, stupid,crap, **** subject in the world. i got an A in my jr. cert, and now im barely passing! crap teacher. i hate maths soooo much ahhhh!

Me too! Sometimes I think I'll actually fail the paper and repeating the LC is just too daunting to even consider. We've a crap teacher. I have to work my ass off to do well on class tests and I fail surprise ones. Studying just does not work - I can never remember how to do things and I have pushy, all-honours, parents
Biology too - for the same reasons. I'd be pushed to pick which one I dislike the most.
Our school gets a great press but the teachers are diabolical

Haven't a Clue

I can grasp the more practical parts of maths, such as probability, the line, the circle etc. But imaginary numbers and the like take the piss...

PurpleFistMixer

I hate probability. >.< Trigonometry is lovely so far, though.

JC 2K3

I love probability, we did it in 4th year and I didn't get it, but now in 6th year I've had an epiphany and it's such an easy question now, and it's really quick to do too.

Trigonometry I've always liked too, and Applied Maths makes it easier also.

Ah Maths, I love it so much...

PurpleFistMixer

I've always had a bit of a belief-related problem with probability, (it either happens or it doesn't) so I find myself resistant to learning it.

Corruptedmorals

I love probability! I absolutely hate Paper 1...out of the attempt six questions, I can do maybe 4, at a stretch. Paper 2 is much better, I mean, the statistics question- how simple!

(Yeah I'm talking about ordinary level)

Steve01

I love probability! I absolutely hate Paper 1...out of the attempt six questions, I can do maybe 4, at a stretch. Paper 2 is much better, I mean, the statistics question- how simple!

(Yeah I'm talking about ordinary level)

We haven't covered probability yet but I've been learning it of my own accord and it looks fairly straight-forward. And yes Paper 2 is far easier than Paper 1.

1huge1

^^ your in 6th year and not done it yet
i always thought it was best to get the easy stuff done at the start

im in 5th year and its the teachers plan to get the whole course done in 5th year

blondie07

Definately has to be history. so regret not picking business. its totally different to junior cert, theres just too much to memorise. wish i cud just learn big chunks of it and regurgitate it like in the old course, i hate this whole "answering the question" thing.

andrew

Your Man wrote:

agree with you there...its a load of bollocks, some of the calculations on the experiments are impossible...theres no rhyme or reason to them, an example being the redox titrations, it doesnt help ive a terrible teacher

what are ya talkin about chemistry rules! i am still in 5th year though...

wow, that looks nerdier then it sounds... no wait it sounds nerdy too

Lia_lia

Honours Biology.
I just can't keep all that info in my head!
Oh and I don't really like art history either.

mateo

ENGLISH!

I want to cry

md99

andrew wrote:

by farr hons. math. that subject is the most impossible, stupid,crap, **** subject in the world. i got an A in my jr. cert, and now im barely passing! crap teacher. i hate maths soooo much ahhhh!

Are we in the same class? lol