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Ever fail any classes in high school?
« on: February 26, 2010, 10:24:54 AM »
The only class I completely failed at despite trying my damnedest to understand the material was physics.  I don't know what it was, but it just completely escaped me.  I was bombing so badly that after one quarter, I dropped out to save my GPA.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2010, 10:29:13 AM »
Nope...but there was that little incident in the chem-lab that almost caused me to get an F.... :-)
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 10:29:54 AM »
Algebra II. Sucked at math then, suck at math now. But I passed college trig, so I'm happy.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2010, 10:41:41 AM »
Quote from: Mike220 on February 26, 2010, 10:29:54 AM
Algebra II. Sucked at math then, suck at math now. But I passed college trig, so I'm happy.


Yeah, my junior year math class (can't recall what it was) was a close one.  Because of that, I decided not to take math my senior year.  I was a year ahead of normal anyway.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2010, 10:43:15 AM »
I failed algebra.  I must have been asleep the day they taught order of operations. 

I did learn it eventually.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2010, 10:44:45 AM »
Chemistry, which one had to have to graduate from high school.

Obviously an abysmal failure, but the teacher, kind-hearted soul, marked on the report card "PX" instead of "F".

He did that for another classmate too.

No one ever knew what "PX" meant, and no one questioned.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2010, 10:45:55 AM »
No, sailed through HS without much difficulty. The 4 years of German I took were easily the most difficult classes I had and that was because the teacher taught them in German from the beginning of freshman year on.  Freshman year of college, however, was a BIG bucket of cold water in the face, though. That was the start of really having to work for grades.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2010, 10:48:37 AM »
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2010, 11:00:19 AM »
I probably should have failed a few classes, but despite my laziness and other things, I graduated in the top 20% of my class. I can't tell you how I did it because I was often "impaired" before Physics class and then Trig/ Calc class thanks to having Stage Band before Trig/ Calc and Lunch before Physics. WE had an open campus way back then.........
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2010, 11:01:04 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on February 26, 2010, 10:48:37 AM
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There was an incident in the backseat of your car, wasn't there?

"Honestly, baby!  That's never happened before!"

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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2010, 11:05:19 AM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on February 26, 2010, 11:01:04 AM
There was an incident in the backseat of your car, wasn't there?

"Honestly, baby!  That's never happened before!"

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I said, "That happens all the time".  Fail.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2010, 11:09:25 AM »
I flunked English in HS cause I hated school and did not like the teacher. My parents sent me to Gulf Coast Military School for the summer to take a single course so that I would not have to repeat the 10th grade. Oh, what fun that was; the school was located across from the ocean in Gulfport MS; went horse back riding, swimming, fishing, etc every day. I flunked a course on purpose the next year; they send me back again. Two best summer vacations I ever had.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2010, 11:09:43 AM »
Nope...was an honor student in HS.

Flunked chemistry in college.....might not have if I hadn't set fire to the chem lab sink (it was not my fault!!! and I wickedly burned my hand  :bawl:), my test grades were abysmal, but my lab grades were good until I was banned from the lab for a few weeks.  :uhsure:

Would have flunked statistics, but my prof felt sorry for me cause I just had no clue...so he gave me a D. It was required for my major and I think he knew that I would have ended up back in his class so he avoided the misery for both of us... :-)
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2010, 11:18:13 AM »
The closest I came to failing a class was Algebra II my sophomore year. I had a solid C going into the last semester final, and asked the teacher what my final grade would be if I zeroed the final.  I ended up with a D, I walked into class, put my name on the test and left.

For some reason, I knuckled down the next two years, an got straight A's but never made it into the Honors Society.  :banghead:
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2010, 11:22:15 AM »
I never worried about Honor Society in HS. I was never going to college.  :lmao:

Whoops. But I have a good GPA and as long as I don't bomb this semester, I'll be joining the history honor society in fall.

Trying to decide if I want to risk taking a semester of calculus. None of the architecture programs I'm looking at require it, but it does shut me off from some good programs like UT in Austin or University of Virginia...
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2010, 11:27:19 AM »
Not in high school, that was a relative breeze.

College was a different story.  I failed Intro to Religion (or something like that) my first semester.  Silly me, I shouldn't have scheduled an 8:00 class that I nearly never attended.  Re-took it 2nd semester & got an A.

My junior year, I got a D in Intermediate Accounting II.  The professor was denied tenure, and this was his last semester of teaching.  He didn't even teach the damn class, he'd come in and go over problems on the overhead projector without explaining them at all.  I'm not sure any of his students got an A.  Retook that stupid class the next semester and got a B.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2010, 12:12:01 PM »
Quote from: Thor on February 26, 2010, 11:00:19 AM
I probably should have failed a few classes, but despite my laziness and other things, I graduated in the top 20% of my class. I can't tell you how I did it because I was often "impaired" before Physics class and then Trig/ Calc class thanks to having Stage Band before Trig/ Calc and Lunch before Physics. WE had an open campus way back then.........

 :yeahthat:

My nemesis was Algebra, right after lunch.  That was where I learned how to look like I was working while sleeping.  Managed a D, never got an F. 
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2010, 02:14:29 PM »
Quote from: Lacarnut on February 26, 2010, 11:09:25 AM
I flunked English in HS cause I hated school and did not like the teacher.

That happened to me in middle school with a math teacher.  My parents couldn't figure out why I was doing so poorly all of a sudden.  It was because the teacher really grated on me.  She was very old school (no pun intended) and insisted upon 1950s-style classroom discipline.  For example, when the hour bell rang, she dismissed us by table when every other teacher just let kids leave as they could.  She also had a bizarre way of pronouncing the number four.  She would say "FO-urr."  Two syllables.  I hated that.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2010, 02:38:24 PM »
No I never did but man I wish I could do high school over again.  I would so be an over achiever.  I didn't care back then.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2010, 02:42:58 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on February 26, 2010, 02:14:29 PM
That happened to me in middle school with a math teacher.  My parents couldn't figure out why I was doing so poorly all of a sudden.  It was because the teacher really grated on me.  She was very old school (no pun intended) and insisted upon 1950s-style classroom discipline.  For example, when the hour bell rang, she dismissed us by table when every other teacher just let kids leave as they could.  She also had a bizarre way of pronouncing the number four.  She would say "FO-urr."  Two syllables.  I hated that.

I was a very skinny kid; got picked on a lot. Got in a lot of fights. I hated school starting in the first grade. My parents sent me to a private school at 5 1/2 years of age cause I was too young to enter public school. The head master was a mean old woman that would pull hair when you were bad. Lucky I made it out of there with any.  :-)


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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2010, 02:52:57 PM »
Quote from: BEG on February 26, 2010, 02:38:24 PM
No I never did but man I wish I could do high school over again.  I would so be an over achiever.  I didn't care back then.

I wish I could do your high school over again with you, too.   :naughty:
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #21 on: February 26, 2010, 03:05:25 PM »
I ended up graduating my sophmore year.  I went from a private parochial school to the worst public high school ever (E.St. Louis).  They were using books I had in the 5th grade!  They didn't know what to do with me, so they let me take all senior classes; breezed through those so they decided I met all the requirements to graduate. The school was so bad they were desparate to show a 'graduation' rather than another 'drop-out'. Not one teacher or administrator gave a shit. I always felt cheated.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #22 on: February 26, 2010, 03:32:55 PM »
I failed Algebra I twice before I finally got a teacher I didn't have to sift kernals of information out of his Farsi accent.  In spite of that, I still graduated with a 3.24 cumulative GPA.

My gift/curse for the longest time was that I could walk into any test damned near cold and stand a reasonable chance of not just passing it, but usually acing it.  That made me lazy early on - if I could prove that I knew the material, what was the point of doing the homework, right? - and came back to bite me right in the ass when I started taking subjects I couldn't glean the right answers to the test from the points the teacher emphasized in the lectures.
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2010, 04:18:14 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on February 26, 2010, 03:32:55 PM
I failed Algebra I twice before I finally got a teacher I didn't have to sift kernals of information out of his Farsi accent.  In spite of that, I still graduated with a 3.24 cumulative GPA.

My gift/curse for the longest time was that I could walk into any test damned near cold and stand a reasonable chance of not just passing it, but usually acing it.  That made me lazy early on - if I could prove that I knew the material, what was the point of doing the homework, right? - and came back to bite me right in the ass when I started taking subjects I couldn't glean the right answers to the test from the points the teacher emphasized in the lectures.

Dude.  Are you my long lost brother?  Same for me.  Needless to say College was rough, I had no clue how to study.  I really hadn't much before. 
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Re: Ever fail any classes in high school?
« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2010, 04:57:54 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on February 26, 2010, 04:18:14 PM
Dude.  Are you my long lost brother?  Same for me.  Needless to say College was rough, I had no clue how to study.  I really hadn't much before. 

College wasn't as traumatic for me as it might have been, because I graduated from high school and went right into the workforce as an Apprentice Draftsman.  College courses were taken on my own time, and on my own money.  It took failing only one class that I had paid my own hard-earned for, for me to become a disciplinary rock when it came to study habits.
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