Intellectually speaking... (confess, science)

[Katzpur]

What was your easiest/strongest subject in school and what was your most difficult/weakest subject?

I really excelled in English (especially in writing and linguistics) and did pretty well in most of the humanities. On the other hand, I am so pathetically unable to comprehend anything remotely related to science that it's embarrassing. I swear most 6th graders understand biology better than I do.

[Bishka]

History/Geography anything like that I was great in

Math/Science. Ooh boy. I hate that stuff. I was horrible and still stink.

[Circle_One]

I particularly excelled in all things Science, History, English and most Maths.

I sucked at Phys. Ed

[Booko]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

What was your easiest/strongest subject in school and what was your most difficult/weakest subject?

Easiest: Math. Science. Typing. Computers. Home ec. History. English (spelling, grammar, mechanics, the technical stuff). Woodworking!

Hardest: English (creative writing, poetry). P.E. (BLECH!!!)

I really excelled in English (especially in writing and linguistics) and did pretty well in most of the humanities. On the other hand, I am so pathetically unable to comprehend anything remotely related to science that it's embarrassing. I swear most 6th graders understand biology better than I do.

I confess I am metaphorically-challenged. That is why I married a poet. He can handle that for the family.

You might do better understanding science if you see it through the lens of everyday life. It really is a rather common-sensical subject when dealt with in that way.

I had to teach Chemistry to a bunch of nursing and engineering students. The nursing students were terrified that it was too difficult a subject for them. In the first week I equated Chemistry, esp. labwork, with cooking, and they all relaxed and realized it was not really any tougher conceptually than baking a cake from scratch. The engineering students mostly thought they knew everything, because they were *engineering students!* Their grades didn't generally reflect their expectations.

Tests in sciences tend to be very objective. It's hard to get a good grade by impressing the teacher or being a good BSer.

[Nehustan]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

What was your easiest/strongest subject in school and what was your most difficult/weakest subject?

I guess I have always liked maths and English. I went to a infant state school for a while (till the death of my father) and I suppose it's quite hard to differentiate subjects at that level. I then moved on to preparatory (boarding) school, where my two strongest subjects (according to my teachers in the scholarship form, there was six of us in the class ) were English and 'Science'.

Originally Posted by Katzpur

I really excelled in English (especially in writing and linguistics) and did pretty well in most of the humanities. On the other hand, I am so pathetically unable to comprehend anything remotely related to science that it's embarrassing. I swear most 6th graders understand biology better than I do.

Want to hear a funny irony...when it came to choose options for GCEs, I chose Physics and Chemistry as my sciences. I even remember making people in my class laugh with my reason for not choosing biology. I said 'Why do I need to study biology, boy meets girl is all the biology I need to know'. My BSc taken some years later....is in a bioscience...see what do teenagers know (but as a subnote...I do have three children)

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by Booko

Tests in sciences tend to be very objective. It's hard to get a good grade by impressing the teacher or being a good BSer.

Funny you'd say that. I became very proficient at BSing my way through essay tests on just about any subject I had to take. Then I found myself in Chemistry 101 (in college). The first test was on the contributions of various chemists. I aced it. The second test was on real chemistry. I failed it. The final was also on real chemistry. I failed it, too. The teacher dropped the lowest of the three test scores and averaged the remaining two. I ended up pulling a C in the class, thanks to my writing ability.

[Feathers in Hair]

Creative writing tended to be my strong suite- pretty much everything in the humanities. According to some testing that was done, my learning disability presents itself as being high in those areas and extremely low in mathmatics. (And, to an extent, the sciences.) When it's taught in a certain way, though, I love it!

[zombieharlot]

Strangely enough, my writing skills always were high while my reading comprehension skills were very low. For one of my state tests I wrote an essay that scored better than 99% (and that was the highest percentage you could get) of other students in the entire U.S., but my reading comprehension scored lower than 60%. I don't really understand why that is.

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