Despite what people say, the lower sets do get better teaching. I'll use my maths lessons as an example the teacher just sat there and handed us the work to do not bothering to explain any of it, wheras the lower sets would get it all explained until they understood it fully so they knew what to do when the exam came along.

In my school, the lower sets got P.E. teachers for maths.

I could have had Carol Vordaman teaching me and I still wouldn't have learned maths

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Originally posted by Wobbletastic:
In my school, the lower sets got P.E. teachers for maths.

We had a geography teacher teaching us P.E for a few weeks, she had to have been 60 odd as well!

My worst subjects were Geography, Physics and Home Economics.
I didn't like my teachers in any of these subjects.

It's gotta be maths for me, I can add up,multiply etc but what the hell were sines and co-sines and algebra all about. Have I used it ever since leaving school. Guess?

i can never hear myself think in english . i end up , ...think shouting .
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but the worst subject is maths .

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Originally posted by onetoo:
It's gotta be maths for me, I can add up,multiply etc but what the hell were sines and co-sines and algebra all about. Have I used it ever since leaving school. Guess?

I wish i'd have found maths more enjoyable cause its the thing i'm best at. Too bad its not though so didn't carry it on after GCSE.

The only thing reason anyone normal would ever need a maths GCSE, is as an entry requirement for a university.

True, unless you wanted to go into accountancy or maths teaching.

arrrrrrrrrrrg maths suuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkksssssssssss
i hate maths

the teacher will not move me up and it really hacks me off she such a crusty fool

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Originally posted by Hatz05:
arrrrrrrrrrrg maths suuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkksssssssssss
i hate maths

the teacher will not move me up and it really hacks me off she such a crusty fool

You don't want to be moved up believe me, ll the teachers in the higher sets do is give you work and tell you to get on with it. They dn't explain or anything and its such a crime if you don't understand something.

I hated french, sceince and RE, what we had tghe learn RE for i do not know.

rs is good

RE is pointles... after a while our teacher gave up trying to teach it and brought in her Fawlty Towers videos for us to watch instead.

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Originally posted by Wobbletastic:
RE is pointles... after a while our teacher gave up trying to teach it and brought in her Fawlty Towers videos for us to watch instead.

I think all R.E. teachers do that. All we ever did in that subject was watch videos

It would be far quicker to tell you what I liked

I hated
Geography although the teacher was very entertaining till he left
R.E.
Mathes
and Pe

i hated maths and science and art, only cos I was no good at them

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Originally posted by bingette:
I could have had Carol Vordaman teaching me and I still wouldn't have learned maths

I actually bought the Carol Vorderman maths video tape and 3 minutes into percentages she made a quantum leap from one number to another and iwatched it over and over again to try to understand it but I never did. Maths I hated at schooland along with it the maths teachers I had.

Maths was my worst subject, not because I had really bad teachers, because the teachers I had for it were great and friendly, but when I was in primary school they never taught me well and I failed the basics.

Anyhow this poor teaching carried over when I went to Secondary school and I struggled to understand and work out calculations, It really frustrated me and I would have fits and get stressed which lead to anger when I couldn't do my maths homework! Thankfully my dad who was VERY good at maths helped me out, didn't do it for me but helped me understand how a sum should be worked out even if it did take him several goes.

Maths has always been my weakest subject, I managed to pass it at GCSE with a grade C and surprised myself. For some reason I was never in the bottom set I was put in the middle set for the subject so it pushed me enough so that I could learn unlike those that were in the bottom sets who weren't going to learn anything because they either couldn't care less or had learning difficulties. And I wasn't in the top sets were I would have just frazeled my brian.

Because I struggled with maths I get annoyed with those that always have to retake the subject to get into 6th form or have to retake it for college or even to get into Uni and in the end they take it so often and just never get the basic qualification yet still go through the education system. Yet I struggled and worked at it to pass it first time and these people get away with not doing it.

So yeah I envy those that are good at it and in a way I look up to them.

Anyhow maths is my worst (I should say weakest) subject.

geography was the worst subject everrrr but only when i got to year 9 and had a poooo teacher haha ooo and french grrrrr

I didn't like Maths, Physics or French (in fact, I hated them lol) I liked most of the other subjects, esp Latin, Biology, Chemistry and English. And Art and Textiles were a doss lol

i loved maths
i hated r.e but loved it coz u could dosse and ..erm..... sience coz i can't spl it and coz the teachers where scarey but i liked it but i didnt coz the teachers i loved english even tho i can't spell tho but i still liked it i like storrys erm.. french i use to hate the class was stupied the teacher was stupied she let some through a dictionary at her head !!

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Originally posted by bingette:
I hated
Geography although the teacher was very entertaining till he left

My geography teacher was one of my best teachers... he was also a shot gun nut and got me into 12 bore clay pigeon shooting.

Haha I almost forgot my Biology teacher who kept a piece of polystyrene that looked just like a brick behind his desk; which he used to throw at unsuspecting people to shut them up or just surprise them when the mood took him!