• Question: what was your worst subject at school

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      Asked by anon-285894 on 4 Mar 2021. This question was also asked by anon-285891.
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        Chris Thomson answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        I wasn’t very good at French to start with – my teacher thought I was useless so I worked really hard to prove him wrong.
        Later, in 6th year and at university, I was really bad at probability and statistics.

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        Miriam O'Duill answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        I wasn’t very good at Latin – I always preferred learning languages that are still spoken today. And I once flunked a very important history exam that cost me a nice scholarship… But there are always other opportunities!

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        Isolda Romero-Canelon answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        I was not very good at history

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        Michael Walford answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        Probably P.E. Or Art. I’m not a sporty person, Badminton is pretty much the only sport I play, as I happen to be relatively good at it. And creatively, I was good at writing stories, but not drawing or painting or anything like that
        Since meeting my fiancee, who went to Art college, its funny how much painting and creative things she has encouraged me to try. I’m still a beginner, but trying my best. If only my Art teacher could see me now!

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        Jesko Koehnke answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        Religion. We had that as an actual subject, and I was terrible.

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        Soneni Ndlovu answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        Art!!! I loved it but I just couldn’t draw to save my life, thankfully (for the teacher and myself), I dropped it.

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        Martin McCoustra answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        I wasn’t a fan of PE though I enjoyed rugby and still do enjoy watching it. Art never set my mind alight and I found languages boring except Latin which had in lots of extra history related materials in it and allowed me to read original historical texts.

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        Zahra Rattray answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        I was really bad at English literature.

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        Amy Sanders answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        Probably languages, I tried really hard but struggle to retain any vocabulary.
        At sixth form is did maths at AS and took twice as long as I was supposed to, I kept at it to spite the teachers who weren’t very encouraging!

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        Matt Foulkes answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        PE was my worst subject! I did try hard at it (and the teachers did realise that 🙂 ) but I just wasn’t very good at it really. Apart from badminton, which I was OK at. I also wasn’t too great at Art!

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        Andrew Parrott answered on 5 Mar 2021:

        I was useless at French and German. I still struggle to remember more than a few words.

        I often think my maths is not good enough – but part of the job is knowing you can’t know everything, so you find people you can work with who do know those things.

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        Ane Valera answered on 5 Mar 2021:

        I was the worst student ever at Maths, honestly, I’m glad my career has made me forget, as least directly, about them.

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        Zuzanna Konieczna answered on 5 Mar 2021:

        Maths and Physics were always a struggle for me!

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