What was the worst grade you ever received in school?

[Beware the Beast Man]

What was the subject?

[Archae]

1. An F in gym

In 5th grade.

[last_texas_dem]

46. I was horrible at gym

Always picked last or near last for teams; sucked at pretty much every sport. Never made lower than an A though, 'cause our grade was based entirely on whether we dressed out or not!

[terrya]

2. A D in PE

I hated PE.

[Archae]

6. Welcome to the club!

Gawd, I hated gym class, the bigger kids loved going after the smaller skinny kids. Like me.

[Bunny]

3. I got an F in Spanish 3 when I was a junior in college.

I had to repeat the course, and managed to get a D. The kicker? I also had to take Spanish 4, for which I got an A!!! Go figure...

[chelsea0011]

4. Flunked Chemistry in college.....damn moles

[sbj405]

19. 6.023 x 10^23?

I got a D in Organic Chem. It was at that moment that I switched majors.

[barackmyworld]

47. I had an F in chem for a while (finished w/ C+ though)

harvard is hard, they need to bring back grade inflation

[jpgray]

5. F

Anyone who hasn't received an F is worthy of some negative generalization.

:P

[johnnie]

7. F's were the norm

I did OK up until Jr. high and then I got a least one F on just about every grading period.
Grades are over-rated.

[n2mark]

8. Never received an F

but received D's in Math and Chemistry.

[Arkana]

9. A D- in conduct in elementary school

I was a bad widdle boy in 6th grade. :evilgrin:

Seriously, if my teachers hadn't been psychotic bitches, the little shit I did wouldn't have affected them.

[AwakeAtLast]

15. 6th Grade seems to be the year for that.

I am either sad to see some of my 6th Grade boys move on, or I am *really* happy to see them go. Nothing in between.

Most of the students that I am not so sad to see go are usually the ones who end up in the Juvenile Center the next year, go figure.

[driver8]

29. I received a "U" in fourth grade for discipline...

for "Unsatisfactory". I don't remember why because I cannot remember ever being a problem in the classroom. As I recall, I liked my fourth grade teacher a lot. Hmmm...very strange.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. 3.5 out of 10 in Group Theory. First year, no, first MONTH of college.

I was used to not having to study Math. Needless to say, that put the fear of God into me.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. A "D" in Music Theory 201

I had many personal problems that year. Took it again and passed with an A.

Before that grade, the lowest I ever got was a C (psychology, maybe?), so that was as devastating as an F.

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. a D in pre-calculus

it wasn't even a whole marking period. It was actually on the final exam but at my school they gave midterms and finals their own columns. I was a senior and it was the last High School exam I would ever have to take...so I tanked it big time. Still managed to get a B as my final grade in the class...but the D stung a little bit!

[asthmaticeog]

13. F's weren't uncommon, unfortunately.

The one I remember most was the one I got in high school English of all things.

Oh, and in college, I flunked puppetry.

[Beware the Beast Man]

72. We have a winner...and a loser.

At least you didn't get a freaking C in Bowling...

[Padraig18]

14. I got a 'C' in chemistry in high school.

*sigh*

[driver8]

32. Me, too. I also flunked the NY State Regents exam in Chem.

My mom was pissed, but I didn't really care since I hated that freakin' class. We started the year off with the worst chemistry teacher in the world who taught us nothing. He did teach us how to slice your thumb after cutting glass tubing and how to set a table top on fire with a bunsen burner...but that was about all.

We got a new teacher about half way through the year and had to learn a whole year of chem. in a few months. I hated that class.

[JohnKleeb]

42. Damn thats what I got last quarter and I was happy

[illini]

16. I receive an F in Intro to Business Law.

High school. I wanted an art class but nooooooo! The stupid counselor "Mrs Themis" said yes then put me in Business Law. I showed that bitch. I showed up to class and took a nap. It was the last class of the day. The teacher Mrs. Sidner realized after 2 weeks that trying to get me to do anything was futile and just gave me a desk at the back of the class and let me sleep. Otherwise my grades were not bad. High B average.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

17. 78 in gym in high school freshman year...

because the gym teachers didn't remember who I was. The gym class was very large, so if they didn't know who you were they just gave you a C, which is not very fair. Being that I was freshman, they didn't know who I was. My dad complained, and they were supposed to change the grade, but they never did. The gym grade didn't matter overall, because I still graduated first in my class. We would have pushed the issue of getting that grade changed otherwise. Gym should only be a pass fail class, and it shouldn't count against a student's overall GPA, unless they fail the class.

That gym grade was the lowest grade I got in any grade from kindergarten to 12th. The second time I took gym (we were required to take two semesters of gym) was my junior year. I got an A that time. I participated just as much my junior year as I did my freshman year. The only difference was that the gym teachers remembered who I was the second time around.

In college I got two C-'s in some very difficult courses. I'm not sure if college counts. One class was ECE 471 (Microprocessor Applications Engineering) and the other ECE 342 (Electronics I).

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Does the sight of those cause you seizures?

h_fe h_re h_ie h_oe

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

31. No...

I imagine it would if I could remember what you are referring to. It looks familiar... but I can't recall what those all stand for. I don't remember much from Electronics other than the class was pure hell. I suffered through that one. I took it in the summer too. I understood what was going on in the beginning, but I got lost toward the end (as did just about everyone else in the class). I remember being very confused with all that small signal model stuff. Of course, it was also my professor's first time teaching the class, so that made it extra confusing.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

54. Amplification factors for transistors

If the signal comes in here and out there, it gets multiplied by h_fe. If it comes in there and out the other place, it gets multiplied by h_re. And so on. Damned if I can remember which is which. Anyway, it seems I remember more than you. (Nyah nyah nyah) :silly:

[-..__...]

18. "Incomplete"

For a few courses that I never showed up for.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

27. Well.. I've gotten an incomplete before..

but it was a planned incomplete. I got the professor to let me sign up for ECE 402 and ECE 403 at the same time. Both classes were senior project classes, but you are not supposed to be able to take them at the same time. ECE 403 was the only class I had left to take, and the course was only two credits. I told the professor it was going to cost me a lot more to have 10 credits in the fall and 2 credits in the spring compared to just taking 12 credits in the fall because of the way financial aid works. Also, my partner and I didn't want to hang around for a whole semester just for that one class. The class was pretty much working independently on our senior capstone project anyhow(finishing up the project, doing the written report, doing the oral presentation, etc.). He let my partner and I sign up for the two classes together, but wanted us to wait until after winter break to do our presentation. He thought it would be too much work to do both at the same time, but we promised him that we could get all the ECE 403 work done over winter break. So, at the end of the fall semester he gave us an incomplete in ECE 403, but a grade in ECE 402. After winter break we handed in our report and did our presentation for the department. The actual grade for the ECE 403 course got entered before the deadline for the fall semester grades. Apparently, they don't actually figure out who graduated until a little bit over a month afterward. So, we finished our course work at the end of January and graduated in December.

[kiraboo]

21. I was offered a D+ or an F for a French class I never attended.

I took the F. I think it looks better than a D+

[iconoclastic cat]

22. Uncontrollable laughter, then a crack on the head with a Chemistry book.

[no name no slogan]

23. two Ds in band, in 8th grade

...and irony of all ironies, I went on to form a couple of bands, one of which put out a CD in the early 90s. So much for that.

[WindRavenX]

24. C- in calculus and chemistry Frosh year of College

Fucking chain rule. Fucking quantum physics :mad:

[JimmyJazz]

25. "Z" - honestly - "did not complete requirements for class"

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

33. I got a "W" once

because I withdrew from a class. It didn't count against my GPA, so it wasn't a bad thing.

[superconnected]

26. I got a b+ once in an acting class and was mad for years

How dare that teacher not give me an A+. All my assignments recieved A+'s. He told me it was because I didn't do extra credit.

I'm not good with b's.

I may have gotten a C once, but I can't recall when it would have been. Come to think of it, I may never have gotten a C.

Funny thing was, I never studied. In college I did my assignments at the last minute, and studied for tests an hour before. I always got A's.

I was kicked out of a typing class. I ended up in independent math study instead. The typing teacher was telling me I might bake great cakes or something but I would never be secretary material and I was telling her she was damn right I'd never be a secretary.

[RedSpartan]

28. D in Trusts & Estates in law school.

200 multiple choice test. Best part -- I was SURE I aced the exam after I took it.

That's why I don't do wills.

[teryang]

36. Very tough course- I got a C

However my worst was a D in Con law 1, which was ironic because I was often the only one to comprehend the instructor in class.

Example: He asked what would be appropriate if the government no longer followed the Constitutional form? Would it be appropriate for the people to rise up and overthrow the government? No brainer, right? None of the giant brains in the class would answer, so I did as my old imprudent self. Everyone turned and looked at me as if I had three heads when I said it would be appropriate under those circumstances to overthrow the government. Of course, at the time this was a completely academic question.

But on the test I goofed a question about the right of the children of immigrants living in the US to educational care and other government benefits. Grade D.

[Cuban_Liberal]

30. I got a D in music in junior high.

:shrug:

[LynzM]

34. Hrm...

Fourth quarter of freshman year of h.s. I got a C in science... the whole class was slackers that quarter :)

Sophomore year of college I got a C+ in multivariable calc, 'cause I hated the prof... and didn't go to class for the last 3 weeks, and tried to teach it all to myself in about 3 days. Didn't work so well as it had for other classes!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

35. Is that the same as Calc 3?

My professor for that class was kind of a jerk too. I still went anyhow. I think he liked me because I did well on his tests, but he was very jerky toward people who didn't do well in the class.

[LynzM]

38. Yeah, same deal

Triple integrals, vectors, integrating surfaces (they look like topo maps)... he made a lot of deragatory comments about women, the topo map one was that "anyone who was ever in boy scouts ought to understand this", etc. Also would answer questions with things like "well, if you don't understand it, I don't know how to explain it to you." Um, dude? That's your JOB. Several other students and I actually complained to the dean, who basically said "we know, but he's tenured". Suck. So I just didn't go for the last three weeks. I did a lot of not going and getting As in other classes, but it didn't work so well for that one.

Where did you go to school? I went to UConn....

[Danmel]

37. 48 on my algebra midterm in 9th grade

i was mortified. My mother got me a tutor who liked to look down my shirt- he was so skeevy. But I ended up with a B+ in the class- which was really really good for me in math.

[Nikia]

39. I got a few Cs in college

I got a C in calculus as did all the other math geniuses from my high school who took calculus their first term in college (different colleges). During winter break, we mobbed our former math teacher who claimed that we did well because he failed calculus the first time that he took it. I later got a C in my first college chemistry class, but did much better in the next class because I finally figured out that the quiz questions were taken directly from the homework problems and that directly studying the problems was the only way that I could finish the quizzes in the short time that the instructors gave us. I also got a C in organic chemistry because it involved a lot of memorizing of rather boring stuff. I was a biology major. I went to a tough school.
Before college, I got a few Bs in junior high. Other than that, I got straight A's.

[Downtown Hound]

40. I got mostly good grades until my Senior year of high school

when I discovered acid and really started smoking weed. I already had enough credits to graduate no matter what, and I was 18, so I could write my own notes to school as to why I was absent. So I said, "Bye bye!" and spent the entire semester in an altered state.

I don't smoke much anymore, but that was probably the best semester of high school that I ever had. I could probably make a movie about it it was such an insane experience. My final report card looked something like this:

F
F
F
D-
F
F

I'm not sure how I managed the D-. I must have been on acid and in some heavy philosophical state where I felt like doing homework. I still graduated and went on to get a college degree.

[tsakshaug]

41. D in HS chem

irony of irony-due to a series of strange occurances I ended up being a high school chem teacher.....
long story.....all A's in college chem

[last_texas_dem]

43. 59

Last six weeks of Spanish I my Freshman year of high school.

Still ashamed; I had finished junior high ranked sixth in my class of 200 or so, but I had a couple years where I got depressed and let things slide a bit too much; shot my chance at graduating with honors, despite making really high grades the last couple years of high school.

[JohnKleeb]

44. Christ come y'all failures

I am gonna admit that I

F: Photography
F: Chemistry
F: Spanish II
D: Algebra I
D: Geometry

[Madrone]

52. Kleeb -

Ya forgot one -

A: Democratic Underground

:D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

58. Crap. Now you can never run for President.

The High School Teachers for Truth (a completely non-partisan organization) will rip you to shreds. Damn.

[djeseru]

45. A 16 out of 100.

As a final grade in high school math. They quit on me, so I quit on them! Graduated a few months later and learned the math in college...

[Scooter24]

48. Worse grade..."B"

The first was a B- in 4th Grade. Got one B in 7th Grade and two B's in highschool (AP Calculus, and Linear Algebra)

In college, I am barely keeping my 3.84. Lots of praryers for me.

[Beware the Beast Man]

73. You nerd.

:P
Keep up the good work!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

49. received an 11 (F) in senior high school chemistry

no joke

I'm an artist not a chemist!

[JohnKleeb]

50. Its hard man, specially that tirst time around

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

51. word

[JohnKleeb]

55. dont you know it

I was asleep a lot of the time in Chem last year.

[HEyHEY]

53. E

Canadian equalivent of an F

[ScreamingMeemie]

56. Me Too!! Since you came out...I guess I will too.

Perhaps it's because MI is right across the border that we stole your grading system. :hi:

[Madrone]

61. Me three.

In fact, I think that's ALL I got my entire JR year.

High School wasn't my thing, man.

[hunter]

70. You didn't tell which subject!

Not even a hint.

[Placebo]

57. F

It seems like I was either getting straight A's or a weird extreme of A's and F's lol

[ScreamingMeemie]

59. I had that problem too. Teacher's either adored me or hated me with

a passion....which explains the E in Western Civ.

[Placebo]

62. damn evil teachers

[ScreamingMeemie]

63. I, personally, would like to see a self review grading system installed.

;)

[JohnKleeb]

60. I had this one quarter last year where I had 3 F's

I am not really proud of it, but hey Ive pulled my shit together.

[Kat45]

A C+ in art in high school. I was pissed. Then in college,

my friend and I also each got a C+ in art. It was a life drawing class and neither of us could draw very well. But I think the grade was because we'd show up for each class stoned and laugh and talk while we tried to draw. But our conversations did provide entertainment for the rest of the class. And as soon as we got back from class, it was time for Monty Python on TV. We took the class because we needed an easy class in our schedules, and our friends told us that in this class, you'd get a B just for showing up. They were wrong.

[Xipe Totec]

64. I flunked an entire semester in college

All 'Fs' across the board. Went to a drunken party the night before finals. Woke up the day after finals. To this day, I do not know what happened in between.

All I do remember is the worm at the bottom of the bottle of mescal.

That was rock bottom for me. I took school pretty seriously after that.

[Dervill Crow]

65. A D in PE

I hated PE so much I would skip and go to my best friend's Home Ec class. How pathetic is that! The only time I would actually GO to PE would be "that time of the month," and so I would get out of actually doing anything.

Strangely enough, one of my favorite things to do as an adult is to go to the batting cages and whack the hell out of a baseball. Especially after the elections in 2000 and 2004. I'm so glad my kids introduced me to sports!

[hunter]

66. I got an "F" and was asked to "take a break" from university.

I got into an argument with a teaching assistant, and he started throwing things at me, and someone ran out and got the campus police. There wasn't any blood, but it was mostly my fault because I was being entirely obnoxious. In my defense, I didn't throw anything back.

I'm not going to tell what subject it was, but it wasn't science or math or music or art. I don't argue about those subjects.

I went to another university and was asked to leave there too, for many of the same reasons. I flunked an organic chemistry class mostly because I was working part time and I missed a lot of classes -- it was easy to work, and it was nice to have money. I did okay in my other classes.

Then I was accepted back into the first university because there were a few people left who still thought I had some potential.

I had all the units I needed to graduate but I got two "incompletes" on my senior thesis because I couldn't keep an advisor. I think my last advisor signed off on my crazy thesis because he wanted to get rid of me.

[yellowdogintexas]

67. an F in algebra in college. I should never have let my

friend convince me that if we studied together and she coached me I could pass it. If I had taken something else instead that earned a good grade, and not had the F I might have squeaked in a cum laude on my diploma...@*&_Q(*#YO#U%O#

[Bouncy Ball]

68. Zoology, freshman year in college. F.

On the lab practical, I named the veins the good vein, the bad vein, the ugly vein, because the TA was a huge Clint Eastwood fan.

Didn't get me SHIT but a little smiley face he drew next to the zero.

[Bouncy Ball]

69. Oh and I forgot Trigonometry.

Took it my senior year of high school, at my dad's assholish insistence, even though I barely passed Algebra II. He was like a freaking math genius and felt I should take trig.

So I did. One semester class. On the final exam, I made a 15 and the teacher called me up to question me as to HOW I GOT THAT MANY POINTS.

I made a 34 for the semester and I think she gifted me a few points on that.

Made my dad angry. So I succeeded.

[Beware the Beast Man]

71. OK, here's my short list:

English, F, 1st quarter, senior year of high school
Music Theory, E (failing), Freshman year college
Visual Arts, E, Freshman year college
Educational Psychology, E, 2nd year college
Intro to Education, E, 2nd year college
Basic Chemistry, E, 3rd year college
I managed to get my act together for the last 2 1/2 years of college.

[Rhiannon12866]

74. 39. On my NY State sophomore year Geometry Regents

I didn't do badly in the course, but freaked out during the test. It was listed on my report card with the marks for the other two Regents I took that year, 93 in Biology and 92 in World History. I was lucky my Dad had a sense of humor. He said it looked like a typo.:spank:

[SmileyBoy]

75. An F three times:

First time was in high school trigonometry (1999).

Second one was in tech school technical writing (2002).

Third one was last semester in environmental design.

Doing a lot better this semester. I got an A and three B's so far.

All F's were somewhere between 55-59%.

[CanuckAmok]

76. I once got a 9% for a term of "Business Management"...an elective.

And, yet, I ran my own business into the ground...go figure!

[NV Whino]

77. An F in Gym

Jr. College. I was a freshman and joined WAA. The sophomores, already established on the basketball team go to go to the "away" games. We were left on our own at the gym. Stupid rules wouldn't let us check out basketballs to practice so we might improve our game and get to travel as well. We got to do "calisthenics" for two hours three days a week.

After a couple of weeks of that, I and another woman said ef that and left early to go home (or to work in my case). Got caught. Got an F.

Next year played tennis in regular gym. Same teacher who gave me an F asked me (begged me actually) to go out for the team. Sorry, too busy. May she rot in Hell.

[SmileyBoy]

78. The good news is that I have never gotten below 55% in a class.

Now if they had changed the grading standard from 60% passing to 55% passing, I would have never failed a class.

[tibbir]

79. F in my sixth six-weeks Science class. Fifth grade.

I had "issues."

[Liberal In Texas]

80. F for FRENCH

...I'm so embarrassed.

[madrchsod]

81. i had a minus grade point average in college

i was quite proud of myself.....

[aaronbees]

82. I think I had some C's inspired by....

uninspiring teachers in college. subjects were French and, if I recall correctly, a poli-sci 101 course with a teacher crazy about discussing and defining NGOs (non-gov. orgs.) and other acronyms non-stop all semester. Bleh. Way to make politics fun and real there. The French teacher, she was just smarmy.