What were your best and worst subjects in school?

MiseryCat · 18-04-2012 01:44PM

best subject was Art and English

Worst was maths and Irish

ixoy · 18-04-2012 01:49PM

Best: History. Had a good memory for the book and was very capable at essays so did very well in it. Also did well in maths and geography.

Worst: Irish. I was very stubborn and insisted on doing it at Honours level despite knowing it would always be my worst result. It was (although I still scraped by with the C3!).

Plazaman · 18-04-2012 01:57PM

English probably was the best. The worst was Irish. Having said that it was Honours Irish, I got roped into it by our teacher. I only agreed because there was only myself and a gorgoeus looking girl that were taking Honours which meant a lot of classes on our own. But alas, I never got a mharcaíocht out of it

saa · 18-04-2012 02:28PM

Best, Art and Business

Worst, Irish, Maths and Geog only because the teacher was an awful wankbag and spat while she spoke.

Pherekydes · 18-04-2012 02:42PM

Best subjects: anything Maths or Science based, like Maths or Science (especially Physics)

Worst: Woodwork, metalwork (which I didn't do in school). I started Building Construction in 4th year, but never got around to failing it in the LC, coz I left at the end of the year.

candy-gal1 · 18-04-2012 02:48PM

Best subjects would have been english, art and for some reason home economics :pac:

Worst subject by far would have been maths, or anything to do with maths tbh

anything more than simple sums were lost on me, the majority of my JC and LC study went on that tbh

Washington Irving · 18-04-2012 02:52PM

Best: Maths, Physics, Biology

Worst: English, Geography, Business

French and Irish were middling

deise go deo · 18-04-2012 02:55PM

Best Ag Science

Worst Irish

Never used anything from Ag Science since, but I'm nearly fluent in Irish now, coz fúk u education system.

JohnMearsheimer · 18-04-2012 03:12PM

My best subjects were English and history, I had a genuine interest in them. Strangely enough I didn't do too bad at agricultural science even though my brain isn't wired for science. I think I just got lucky in what came up in the LC exam.

My worst were maths, French and Irish.

paddydriver · 18-04-2012 03:17PM

All of them.. crap at them all; except English.. cause I spoke it every day:D

Got out of school, got a job, learnt new stuff, got into computing and now doing alright.

Fecking school.

WoollyRedHat · 18-04-2012 03:21PM

My best was Biologoy, I got an E in it.

Francie Barrett · 18-04-2012 03:27PM

They didn't have subjects back in my old school days. Back then, from the moment you walked through the school gates, you were repeatedly lashed up and down a field for 4 hours until lunch (which consisted of whatever could be scraped off the floor of a local pig sty), followed by evening prayers and even more lashings.

You kids don't know how good you've had it with your subjects.

paddyandy · 18-04-2012 04:44PM

I was no use at anything ....... even at nineteen i was useless ...i've changed a lot . I get people scratchin' their heads because i'm not consistently smart or stupid .I lacked guile .

Snowie · 18-04-2012 04:46PM

I was really good at getting my self out of trouble :cool:

General Relativity · 18-04-2012 04:53PM

Best; Maths, Physics, Applied Maths
Worst; French

Da Shins Kelly · 18-04-2012 04:54PM

English was my best by a mile. The only one I really had any interest in and I was good at, which encouraged me to be interested and put in some effort.

Maths was the worst, easily. I could barely grasp basic concepts in maths. I just had absolutely zero interest. My maths teacher thought I was completely hopeless, convinced I'd fail the Leaving Cert. Just about passed in the end somehow.

steelcityblues · 18-04-2012 04:55PM

English and History - took both at higher level for the Leaving, and got decent grades.

Everything else was at ordinary level.

tinyk68 · 18-04-2012 04:57PM

My best was French.
My worst by far was Maths, I needed grinds to pass ordinary level in the leaving. Mind you my teacher was rubbish. Had him for two years and at the end of it he didn't even know my name.

sunflower27 · 18-04-2012 05:04PM

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

English was my best by a mile. The only one I really had any interest in and I was good at, which encouraged me to be interested and put in some effort.

Maths was the worst, easily. I could barely grasp basic concepts in maths. I just had absolutely zero interest. My maths teacher thought I was completely hopeless, convinced I'd fail the Leaving Cert. Just about passed in the end somehow.

Snap!

I remember getting a tutor (no we were not rich, my poor mother was just desperate) and it made no help at all.

He was Indian and I found it hard to understand his strong accent, but it really made no difference... he may as well have been speaking Indian.

He would just look at me with these despairing eyes, but I just couldn't understand maths and that was it.

I ended up getting 60% in maths in my HSC - my lowest score by a good bit.

No surprise there.

I turfed all my notes into the bin after finishing the exam. What a feeling. Still have zero interest in it.

jubella · 18-04-2012 05:28PM

Best at maths and French
Worst at Irish - my LC exam was an complete sham.

jimjimjimmy · 18-04-2012 05:30PM

Best Maths, worst Irish.

starviewadams · 18-04-2012 05:30PM

Best:
Art-(The actual art part,not art history which I found incredibly boring)

History-(Got an A in higher level on the Junior,despite being on the mitch for most of the year and my idiot teacher predicting that I'd fail!)

English-(Always liked reading and writing storys so it was one of the few classes that I enjoyed)

Worst:

Maths-(found it incredibly boring,all my teachers were ancient and they used to let the lads on the GAA teams away with everything where's I'd be hauled in for detention for the smallest thing,think I got an E in foundation for the leaving)

Irish-(found the subect itself pointless and the teachers I had for it were all **** so I just wasn't bothered with it)

French-(In 1st year we had a great French teacher who made learning the subject incredibly easy,from 2nd to 6th year though we had a brutal,washed up hack for a teacher who couldn't control the class so I pretty much gave up on it.She's still teaching there now too which is pretty ridiculous)

Raminahobbin · 19-04-2012 12:00AM

My best was english (got an A1 in the LC

) but the one I enjoyed most was art.

My worst was maths- which is strange, considering my dad and 2 of my brothers studied physics/maths in college. It was fun when I broke the news that I was dropping to ordinary level

I also hated irish and french.

smokingman · 19-04-2012 12:10AM

RichieC wrote: »

Religion class and crayon time

Isn't that the same class though?

Best - Maths
Worst - Irish

boobar · 19-04-2012 12:16AM

Best: Maths
Worst: Biology

cassel16 · 19-04-2012 12:18AM

Best - Georgraphy & English
Worst - Maths

But I loved maths!

19-04-2012 12:24AM

I went to a tec and hated all the technical subjects. Loved maths and learned to type on a typewriter in the school. In the last few years they got commodore computers and I was taught to use and love them. I was exempt from Irish and the teacher used to let me use the computer during Irish. Used to spend hours writing programs in Basic to do my Maths.

19-04-2012 10:22AM

best: english, closely followed by the same results for maths, applied maths, french

physics was down at the bottom :cool:
our teacher refused to teach us mechanics

Novella · 19-04-2012 11:01AM

I was best at Biology, but also pretty good at English. Irish too. Funnily enough, I didn't continue the good at languages trend and was shit at French.

Duggy747 · 19-04-2012 11:15AM

Best:

Art - Did excellent on the Art, shìte on the history as the renaissance was the only thing I had and still have any interest in.

Biology - Probably the only class besides Art & English I actually enjoyed.

Worst:

French: Zero interest in the language and the day after my Leaving Cert my brain seemingly flushed everything I learnt about it out the window, I can't remember one single word of that language now.

I think I know more German anyways (Du Hast........du hast mich! :pac:)

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