do you fail school?

The worst grade I've had was a D. I could've easily not gotten it, but I was lazy and stupid.

[QUOTE="Microwin"][QUOTE="derekjeter2005"]I've never failed a subject. Have always gotten straight A's with a couple of high B's mixed in. People who fail generally think a social life is more important than academics so they'd rather go with their friends to the mall or go to a party on Saturday night instead of studying for their exams. DroidPhysX

Not being a virgin doesn't mean you live a healthy lifestyle. lol

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="mikegtfc"] Ignorant sweeping generalization is ignorant.derekjeter2005

seriosuly

i had perfect attendance in high school, performed incredibly well on any written exams and homework, but failed miserably at scantron tests. End result: a high C-average (2.86 GPA)

oh yeah, I am still mad.

[QUOTE="derekjeter2005"][QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

seriosuly

i had perfect attendance in high school, performed incredibly well on any written exams and homework, but failed miserably at scantron tests. End result: a high C-average (2.86 GPA)

Will2Live

too true.

half the people I know who are doctors now were the biggest potheads I knew lol and blew off ****like it was a joke.

there are two kinds of students, as far as I can tell:

1. The kind that can memorize, and may or may not learn

2. THe kind that cant memorize, and may or may not learn

Take that as you will lol

mrbojangles25

I failed the last two years of my schooling life...yeahI don't think playingPSP in class and going to school in a bear suit isn't exactly a good idea.

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]Lonelynight

and yet they lacked complete common sense.

so sure, they can perform open heart surgery, but can they navigate their way through San Francisco, show up to places on time, and hold a proper conversation?

:P

it might be naive of me, but I dont think anyone is truly stupid. I think there are just various kinds of smart/talented. Its why a doctor can never paint a beautiful portrait like an artist, or why an artist can never build an entire house like a carpenter, or why a carpenter can never cook a mind-blowing meal like a chef.

mrbojangles25

I failed 2 midterms in calculus II but still got a C in the end.

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]Lonelynight

I agree on the first point (which is sad, everyone should be given opportunity), disagree on the second point; everyone has potential, it is simply a matter of finding it.

Ive met/known some pretty conventionally stupid people in my life, but I just chalk that up to them not being able to find their calling.

Humans are incredibly diverse, diverse to the point where each one of us is unique and has a unique thing to offer the world. I think lumping this diversity into smart/dumb categorizationis criminal.

mrbojangles25

Yeah am a bit dyslexic.

supergoat777

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]Lonelynight

i think its a result of Gamespot's generally anti-humanist attitude lol. Most of the people on here seem to be doom- and nay-sayers when it coems to the human race :P

Nope, I'm a good student. Either that or I'm nothing special and everyone around me is dumb as dog ****. I'm gonna go for the Latter.

I can tell English is not your strong point.:PCMFreezy

haha :D

As for myself, I was never a good student until the later years. When I moved to Germany (9th grade), my grades were horrible, I was always close to failing each year, but somehow made it to 12th and 13th grade. Our 12th and 13th grade is basically like the 2 years of college you have in the US. I got my S**T together and studied for subjects I liked (physics for example), and the results were good). Now I'm at Uni, it's tough!

Edit: My attendance was crap though. I skipped a lot of classes that I thought were worthless (like German, Geography, Biology)...basically anything that I thought was extremely boring.

B's and C's with the occasional C- I guess and rare A's

I am happy to say i have never failed a class or dropped out/quit/expelled from a school either.

I'm 24. i'm doing graduate studies right now. got a bachelor in Mechanical Engineering.

I have had cla sses, where for one reason or another ( either i was screwing around not doing my studies, or the teacher was being arbitrarily difficult) i literally thought i was going to fail a cl ass, when past the drop deadline, i persevered, when i knew others in likewise situations just lax'd and gave up.

In my entire bachelor studies 'career' i have one D. for that very reason.

Below is that story:

there were three exams, each took around 4-6 hours to complete. the Professor required you showed all steps and every calculation, and God help you if you screwed up the decimal place somewhere in the 5-6 pages of work you did for one problem. I remember on the final exam, prior to it i did the homework well before the deadline, and by homework i mean small packet with up to perhaps 10 questions, each one possibly taking as long as 2-4 hours each to solve all the way through and correctly. He had numbered it oddly. going from Question 3 to 6 to 11 back to 5 and such.

When i turned the finished homework in i numbered as 1 to 11. in the order they were given though. when i got my score back, he had given me 67 out of 100. I was searching through very frustrated to see what it was, and he was taking a large number of points away because of how i numbered the problems. I turned it back to him pretty upset (i'm 5'3" he is well into his 6' something) and argued - fairly loudly - that was this necessary. he took it back, and i got some 83%. wasn't looking for a perfect score, if i had the problem wrong, i had it wrong, but taking points off for that was BS.

on the exam, i was in the third hour, working on transverse gears. which are much more energy efficient and can do more work, but have to be made to be very exact, in order to work. so if you are off by say 0.1 transverse degree, the match won't work. I believe the question gave 2.71 transverse degree, by the third hour he walked in saying "oh sorry guys, the number is actually 3.21". I've just about finished the problem on PAGE FIVE, he walks in to tell everyone that what i put down on PAGE TWO is wrong.

F this guy!

I walked out of the final exam about five and half hours of exam taking time thinking i had failed a cla ss.

I persevered through it and was surprised to find i had just barely passed. No doubt i believe as a sort of act of mercy.

Ironically having left by bachelor degree college (Milwaukee School of Engineering) with a torn GPA of 2.47. I left and got into a Master's degree program on probation, having not changed much of my new work ethic that i had developed in my final years at MSOE, i got through that first semester with a clean 4.0.

I was full of C's and a couple of F's.. I still passed and laugh at the people who worked their butt off for that A in highschool. Now those grades don't matter after you pass.LustForSoul

Um... yes they do. They get you into better schools and get you scholarships.

i have a C right now in calculus. Other than that, im doing fine

I did as and bs and my history teacher, but that was in my dreams

By my standards, I'm currently failing. 60's in two classes, haven't had that in 8 years.

[QUOTE="supergoat777"]

Yeah am a bit dyslexic.

XilePrincess

Its only mild dyslexia. and yeah your kinda of right , I'll stop using that as an excuse lol. Thanks :)

I've been failing about 2 classes at any given time this year, and most other years for a while now. I'm not dumb, but I'm terrible at getting myself to do daily work. I've never gone to a party and I don't have many friends, so that generalization doesnt apply to me. I do great on tests, quizzes, and exams. Even if I don't pay attention very well. I'm currenty trying to start getting better at doing the daily work, but it's been hard so far.

I passed in school and I got out of school. It's dumb to just sit back and let yourself fail...just straight out dumb. At least get a High School Degree if nothing else.

Well, it's not in my habits these days, considering that I'm in graduate school and you have to maintain a 3.0 GPA.