What was your least favorite subject in school?

freshpopcorn

For me it had to be maths. Never had an issue with it in primary school. Just lost all interest in it in secondary school. Partly due to having a poor teacher. He was a nice guy but simply couldn't teacher a class. I was basically advised to do foundation level in my leaving cert. Ending up sticking to my guns and did ordinary level and got a D1.
I have no idea how I managed to get that D1. My paper was halirous I wrote a note in English beside every calculation explain what I was doing.
What was your least favourite subject in school?

KKkitty

Maths here too. Whatever hope I had with it faded away when letters were added to equations.

NachoBusiness

Irish, French, German.

Hate learning other languages.

Used to do my Commerce and English homework in those classes, scallywag that I was/am.

Wacker The Attacker

Irish.

I hated Mathematics in school because I had an appalling teacher. I got a masters in maths and a degree in accounting in adult life to prove it wasn't me.

Theres still no need to learn irish

TrustedApple

Would have been biology for me for my leaving cert. Like i don't mind reading about the topics online and the likes it was just the teacher who made me hate the subject with a passion as he was not a good teacher and he never took the fact i had delixea into the tests and used to fail me all the time in them if i 2 or 3 letters wrong in the words and used to always but big red X on my work and it used to upset me quite a lot when i did know the ANS.

I called him a asshole one day in 6th year after i failed my mocks that he marked it was higher LV. He said that i wasn't aloud back in his class agin on to i said sorry to him witch i never did and never went back to his class.

So i went and thought myself the course witch i done for must of the leaving cert

Ended up with a C1 in higher Lv in my leaving cert with no thanks to him and the fact it i was able to do the subject to begin with there was no need to be telling me in front of the class that i was failing every test and making me go up the board when i wasn't able to spell the words to write down the homework.

Nasty man picking on a student with a learning disability

Huntergonzo

Irish, I just couldn't see the point in learning it, thought it was a complete waste of time.

Samaris

Hated Business Studies and Home Ec. Found CPSE (civics) a waste of time too.

Fr_Dougal

Detention.

Wacker The Attacker

Huntergonzo wrote: »

Irish, I just couldn't see the point in learning it, thought it was a complete waste of time.

It still is.

The_Valeyard

Cspe, sphe.

dodderangler

Loved irish and engineering.
Hated chemistry. Still don't know why I chose to do it

Wang King

Latin.... Our teacher was a sadist

Cheshire Cat

Wang King wrote: »

Latin.... Our teacher was a sadist

+1

tomwaterford

Art and music (only for 1 year though music)
As someone who's utterly talentless...it was hard to stay outta trouble for messing


Closet followed by English...failed ordinary in the pres and :eek:

Huntergonzo

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

It still is.

True, if I was back in school I'd still have no time for Irish but I have no problem with students who are interested in Irish learning it, just think it shouldn't be compulsory.

efb

Biology

The Backwards Man

Detention.

It was always at lunchtime or after school hours, the sly bastards.

The_Valeyard

efb wrote: »

Biology

Seaweed. F*cking seaweed.

Fucus Vesiculosus...

Public_Enema

Irish.

kfallon

Tech Drawing, fúcking hated it! Pain in the hole to carry all your gear round in your bag for, setting up a board at home to do your homework, couldn't wait to get rid of that shít for me Leaving!

Boring username

oi nevr likd english mutch

Buona Fortuna

Maths for me too.

I did pure and applied at A Level. The teacher for the pure was the deputy head - what a total fcuking bastard this guy was.

If it wasn't perfect, you had to repeat it and if you didn't get the repeat done in time detention.

There is no torture too painful for this guy - but without him I'd have failed - my mind at that time was on girls, fat girls, thin girls, spotty girls, freckly girls, long haired girls, and girls with short hair. I couldn't look at a girl without thinking "Wow vagina."

Yep a single sex school.:(

Anyway I just about passed Maths P&A despite my absence of any thought or effort.:)

eternal

Chemistry or Irish. Pure torture.

efb

Blah blah biology is easy marks- if you like learning off reems of boring information maybe.., I wanted to do physics

Turtyturd

Another vote for maths.

Also had Theatre Studies during Transition Year which was embarrassing.

Public_Enema

If ever a thread needed a poll it has to be this one.

The_Valeyard

Public_Enema wrote: »

If ever a thread needed a poll it has to be this one.

Be one long ass poll

Smidge

Maths
Again, horrible nasty teacher.
Loved everything else tbf

Galwayguy35

Maths, from the time long division came along it was down hill from there.

Just scraped a pass in the syllabus C paper for the LC.

Digital Solitude

Mine was French or Irish. Probably Irish because we just took the piss in French anyways, fun class.

Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Geography I could all do. Just not languages.

anncoates

Social Studies or whatever they called it

In our school, it was just essentially a few years of pleading with us not to end up in jail, on Heroin or with 7 kids by the age of 23.

SparkySpitfire

ughhh maths....

Xaracatz

History. I changed schools for my last year, and they had a different history syllabus, which was Irish and European history between the 1780s and the 1980s (or something like that). No more Renaissance, which I quite liked.

I'm more interested in this all now, but by Jaysus, so much of it was depressing at the time. Fking industrial revolution. Fking Bismark. Fking learning it all in a very short year when I had no desire for it.

I like Maths, but in fifth year, we had double HL Maths classes followed by a double HL Physics classes taught by the same teacher, who was a bit of a weapon. Um - we're supposed to do what with x now?? Ruined Physics for me and I ended up dropping it for the Leaving, which I regret.

spock.

Irish.

What a complete and utter waste of time learning that language was.

Aineoil

Another vote for maths here.

NachoBusiness

Surprised Maths is so common. Was the only subject I always got an A or a B in.

I used to study horse racing form from when I was 13 and so found Maths really helpful in that regard.

Had a good teacher also, so that helped.

RayCon

Irish. no debate

NachoBusiness

RayCon wrote: »

Irish. no debate

Make up your mind.

ToddyDoody

Absolutely, positively it was Irish.

osarusan

Technical Graphics.

What shadow will the building cast on the ground?

Not a clue.

The_Valeyard

osarusan wrote: »

Technical Graphics.

What shadow will the building cast on the ground?

Not a clue.

A dark one sir!

When the Sun Hits

French. The teacher was totally baffled at how my test results didn't reflect my homework at all. Good old Google Translate.

freshpopcorn

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Surprised Maths is so common. Was the only subject I always got an A or a B in.

I used to study horse racing form from when I was 13 and so found Maths really helpful in that regard.

Had a good teacher also, so that helped.

I know lots of people who are great at the bookies and use standard maths every day in their jobs.
They still can't add x and y tough. I think algebra is where a lot of the hatred for maths comes.

Duke O Smiley

French. We had a class teacher for the first three years. Class in that she never actually done much, we spent every double class watching a DVD and every other class just arseing around (with the teacher). Then for LC about eight people picked it and our old teacher retired

Maths. Ended up in the worst class there was for LC even though I got an A1 in the Junior cert. Lost all interest but had good craic in the class.

English. Crazy cat lady teacher who tried to be funny a lot. I struggle to stay awake just thinking about it.

MikeSD

Only did it up until the Junior Cert, but I loved geography in primary school. I was fascinated in countries/maps/cities at that age. Then when we got to secondary school we just learned about rocks, soils and rivers. I found that really boring. I got a HL C in the JC with little work, but I really didn't look forward to that class.

Rippington

Algebra .

conorh91

Maths. It pissed me off that I wasn't good at maths. I just couldn't get my head around it. My teacher kept telling me it was all psychological, but I genuinely felt as thick as two planks sitting in class.

Had to drop down to ordinary level in 6th year, because I was genuinely afraid of failing the honours paper. I am not boasting, but I got a really good points because I worked my ass off for the leaving, gave up sports, music, socializing etc.

And yet anytime I come across my results certificate I feel bad for having caved and sat the pass paper. Total blot on my school record if I'm honest. I know people think that's an exaggerated overreaction, but for the amount of work I put into those couple of years, I see it as an embarrassing stain. I cringe when including it in job/ study applications.

KatW4

Economics... don't know what I was thinking when I chose that.

Hated Irish too but needed a C3 for teaching so really had to work at it. I still hate it and I hate teaching it too!

TiGeR KiNgS

conorh91 wrote: »

Maths. It pissed me off that I wasn't good at maths. I just couldn't get my head around it. My teacher kept telling me it was all psychological, but I genuinely felt as thick as two planks sitting in class.

Had to drop down to ordinary level in 6th year, because I was genuinely afraid of failing the honours paper. I am not boasting, but I got a really good points because I worked my ass off for the leaving, gave up sports, music, socializing etc.

And yet anytime I come across my results certificate I feel bad for having caved and sat the pass paper. Total blot on my school record if I'm honest. I know people think that's an exaggerated overreaction, but for the amount of work I put into those couple of years, I see it as an embarrassing stain. I cringe when including it in job/ study applications.

.... and so you should.

callaway92

History (did until the Junior Cert).

I' have no problem saying I did absolutely fúck all work for it in class. I hated it. Didn't mind the teacher, just hated history. I actually sat Ordinary Level and turned up about 45 mins late for the exam if I remember correctly...Genuinely did not give one shíte about a subject which even at that age, I knew could not have been any more irrelevant to my future.

demakinz

Irish , What is the point.