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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 5:50pm   #1
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What is the most difficult High School level subject? What is the biggest waste of time? (Inspired by the "I hate School" thread!)

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Poll Results: School Subjects (30 votes.)

What is the toughest High School Subject? (Choose 1)
* Math - 20% (6)
* English - 7% (2)
* Physics - 13% (4)
* Biology - 0% (0)
* Chemistry - 17% (5)
* History - 3% (1)
* Economics - 3% (1)
* Foreign Language (any) - 20% (6)
* Woodworking - 0% (0)
* Mechanics - 0% (0)
* Home Economics - 0% (0)
* Phys. Ed. - 13% (4)
* Accounting - 0% (0)
* Science (Generally) - 3% (1)

What is the most useless High School Subject? (Choose 1)
* Math - 3% (1)
* English - 7% (2)
* Physics - 3% (1)
* Biology - 3% (1)
* Chemistry - 3% (1)
* History - 3% (1)
* Economics - 7% (2)
* Foreign Lang - 13% (4)
* Woodworking - 20% (6)
* Mechanics - 3% (1)
* Home Ec. - 7% (2)
* Phys. ed. - 20% (6)
* Accounting - 3% (1)
* Science (general) - 3% (1)
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 7:03pm   #2
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The most difficult one is Norwegian, and the biggest waste of time is Norwegian .
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 7:11pm   #3
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Physics is the most difficult for me. Not exactly the biggest waste of time, but I hate french the most, (I salute all you people who took the time to learn english, espspecially when we're too lazy to learn yours).
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 8:00pm   #4
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The most difficult one is Norwegian, and the biggest waste of time is Norwegian
Hmm... What about "ny norsk"/"new norwegian"...
Its nasty...
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 8:47pm   #5
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PE. I hate it and I sukc at it and it's bloody useless.
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 8:52pm   #6
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As a Physical Therapist Student, I can't agree with that Eze But I will say that 90% of Physical Education is given horribly wrong.
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 8:59pm   #7
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'Math', only a curse is worse.
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I hate German. "Mein Banane ist immer gerade aus" (for those of you who doesn't understand the similarity of first two words with english, i'm sorry)
I love Mathematics and Physics(though Physics is helluva tough)
PE is totally useless.
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 9:15pm   #9
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My banana is what?
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Well, for me Swedish is the bane of my existence (Sorry to youi all Swedish people here) it is the single thing I am unable to learn. Math may be horrid, but I can manage. Physuics, well, can be done. Chemistry, manageable. Biology? Dead easy. English? Love it. Phys Ed? HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT... but not as much as Swedish. Phys Ed you can pass by milling around and doing nothing but just being there, and it's not a subject that will matter way much when you'll need your grades. My inability to pass Swedish classes and my fear for Swedish lessons and exams crashed my school career... twice. I hate it with a bloody passion!

As for the uselessness... Everything else of those subjects I can see myself needing, except for woodwork. Where would I need that skill? Everything else, evven PE, I can see the use of.

(*picking up her hjaw from the floor after she realized she didn'y pick PE for both but did a mature decision for both questions*)
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 10:06pm   #11
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I don't have any problem with swedish , but then again, I am what finns call a hurri (swedish speaking minority in finland). The hardest of these, definately maths. Since I came to senior high school my math grades dropped from 10(highest) to 4(lowest).
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Well, Frostmage, in my and mathematuics case manage = to pass... I dropped from a ten to a six and to a four, too.

(Elves... the bloody elves!)
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Old Fri, 14th Mar '03, 10:25pm   #13
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Man, one cannot know how much I hated French and German. After four years I hardly learned something. Totally useless.

Khelben: "My banana is always straight."

Math: nothing is easier than math. I started high school with a 10 and now, six years later, it's a 9.
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I've hated German for five years now, because I've been forced to go in lessons. There's nothing wrong with Germany or German, but I just don't wanna learn it.

Frosty and Ara... I'm going to senior high school in this years august and I have 9 in maths. Well... I guess my maths grade will also drop like a... um... banana?

Gotta go to sleep...
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I'm only in JH, but Algebra 1x sucks (started quadratics today), and History is useless because what's happened, heppened. I could only understand History being useful if you were going to be a historian or something.
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I'm bombing math, but I feel it is one of the most important. I wonder why that is.
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After high school, I never seem to get a regular exercise schedule going, so I think Phys Ed. is useful.

Toughest for me is English. Not that I get writer's cramp a lot, but it's very subjective. Marking schemes are really hard to keep steady since different readers interpret the same essay differently. For example, I had B,A,A,C+,B in my 5 years of high school. Not very consistent at all.
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Toughest for me was instrumental music. We had to take one music, art or drama class. I have no artistic skill and I have never been any good at acting so music was the lesser of three evils.

What really annoyed me about it was that throughout high school I was a straight A student with the sole exception of that one stupid and pointless music course.
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You left out the king of subjects Depaara! Social science! Or rather political science mixed economics and sociology. I dont know if any countries have this except Sweden but here it is one of the biggest subjects on high school level. It is vital for any democratic country to educate its young citizens in politics and how it works, opening up their eyes to the world at large and the society they live in. For math and many other subjects we have machines but but only people can think about people.
Of course these sentiments can have something to do with that I am soon finished with my teachers education focusing on social science.

I am shocked though that so many thought phys.ed is worthless and boring, it is very important for you, perhaps not from an academical point of view but from your own.
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I actualy quite like Pys. Ed. Its a nice change from the normal stuff.
One of the many roots of all evil is maths. I hate it! Too bad its also extremly useful
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In Canada we have Social Studies, and it is my minor. I guessed that in Europe the classes might be split into Economics, Political Science, and History (I think I missed Poli.Sci) It looks like I muffed this one all around -- split up Social, didn't split up the Maths enough -- someone just shoot me. Right between the eyes!
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I HATED Maths, and I think Phsics is useless because it's just like Maths.
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PE is useless,i'm not gonna be a sports instructor after all.
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i hate history most because it tells lies.

The person who rebuilt and developed our capital is Yap AhLoi, a migrated Chinese, but our history book named some other Malays, native Malaysians. Malays, Chinese. Tamil, Kadazan, Iban though different cultural background but are all Malayisans thus must be sharing all equal rights. Our history book said Malays, Kadazan and Iban are the one who first arrived here, first developed a complete political system here thus they have the privilege of having highier "special rights" over other races. Our history said one of the Melaka Kings married a Chinese princess but there is no such record of a royal family member being married to Melaka King in Ming Dynasty royal family member tree. Chinese fought hard and died many during the Japanese occupation in WW2 but that was being cut off from our history book.

i think English is the most useless because i am not going to England anyway.
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Math is also quite difficult for me at the time...

Seeing as me and a friend got in a pretty harsh verbal fight with my math teacher... On thing led to another... And suddenly I'm suspended for a day...

We got it solved tough... Yay...
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