What were you good - and bad - at in school?

[Salad Dodger]

I was good at English, and I was interested by some aspects of geography - particularly geology and meteorology. But I hated the in depth study of one particular area of the world (the Rhone valley).

I was terrible at Chemistry. I never could get the idea of calculating chemical reactions to determine what the resulting compounds were. It all might as well have been in Chinese.......

And I messed about far too much in physics. I should have paid attention, and learned enough to be able to repair or build electrical stuff.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I feel your pain, my hands are known as hands of destruction and don't get me started on trying to fix or maintain a bicycle, joking a side it can be incredibly frustrating and demoralising.

I used to get frustrated, now I don't even think about such things as there is no point.

Support your local trasdesmen and women. In fact, that reminds me that I should have asked the nice couple who visited this morning to measure up a fence I am needing to install if they could finish off cleaning the wooden walkways and balcony and treat it with some "stuff". I got my hands on a power washer last year which cleaned some of it, then some chemicals (which I narrowly avoided poisoning the entire street with) but I never did get round to doing it properly...the neighbour's industrial heavy duty power cleaner only ended in stripping the wood to shreds.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Hated school, a Grange Hill style comprehensive, bullying rife, teachers mostly disinterested. Got A grade O levels in biology, chemistry, physics, maths, English language and history in spite of the standard of teaching so I guess I must have been ok at them. The worst were the PE teachers, I despised them and they despised me. I did everything I could to get out of their so called lessons, which were mostly a thinly legitimised extension of the break time bullying.

 

[marinyork]

This is pretty much why, despite getting A grades in physics, I switched to computer/software stuff. I feel that sitting in front of a computer twiddling knobs all day is completely different from sitting in a car twiddling knobs all day.

I would say history is the most useful subject after school ends, seems to come up a lot in conversations, pub quizes, social circles and when analysing what the news/journalists/politcians say. The sort of subject where if people liked it at school they carry on outside of formal education.

 

[screenman]

I was brilliant at everything I did at school, even lying.

 

[Biff600]

Detested school, spent most of the time looking out of the window or playing truant.

Left at the age of 15, 5 CSE's and an O level in physics.

However, since leaving school I have got myself educated and have a degree in management and have signed up for a 2nd degree starting this September,

 

[PhilDawson8270]

I was no good at Maths but ive since found out 5 out of 4 people cant do fractions so im not the only one.
Good at PE though.

You wouldn't be the only one if 1 1/4 can't do fractions

 

[derrick]

Loved wood work, metal work, that's about it really, i am good with my hands.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

i am good with my hands.

You can get nicked for that, you know.

 

[Racing roadkill]

I was annoyingly outstanding at everything.

 

[GM]

It was 'must do better' for me, although I won the school prize for woodwork, metalwork and art.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I was brilliant at maths, especially at primary school where they had to bring in extra books for me in the last couple of years and I taught myself as I was better than the teachers. Secondary school was similar when I would tell the teachers they were giving us the wrong answers.

Useless at anything practical like woodwork, metalwork and art. In fact I can remember the art teacher laughing at my appalling attempts to draw and I still can't nail two pieces of wood together.

 

[snorri]

I've still got some of my educational awards in a box somewhere, all for Perfect Attendance .

 

[derrick]

You can get nicked for that, you know.

Tell me about it.

 

[Salty seadog]

, until one day I scored a spectacular "goal" from one end of the court to the other, with my back to the net launching the ball over my head

Could you do it again?