What was your favourite/worst subject at school?

I loved all the academic subjects and hated the practical - needlework, cookery, P.E. and games.

School - hated it. Still have a phobia about teachers. The day I left by the front gate (which we were not allowed to do!) I swore I would never go back. Unfortunately 13 years later my daughter went there so I had the dreaded parent’s evenings to attend. Put up with her teachers telling me something I knew "her handwriting is appalling" Had enough of it so, each time I sat before a Teacher, I started the conversation with "her hand writing is appalling - your profession has made a lousy job of it” It was never mentioned again.

Now my daughter would probably be told she has dyslexia but we just thought up ways of her overcoming her problems with little rhymes and, strangely, on a computer she has no problem. Her Dad has the same problem but they are both Engineers!

My favourite lesson was History. My pet hate was Maths.

I loved English and Maths but hated French and History. History was so boring at school but I've loved History since I left school! It was the way it was taught I reckon just reading from a text book.

Loved English Language and Biology, hated History and Maths. Disliked with an intensity practically every teacher in the school, and loathed the head most of all. Glad to leave and despite being last to receive my leaving certificate (History teacher taunting me) I was first out of that gate and never went back!

Loved English and hated Maths - loved Art and didn't like the science subjects. So I suppose that means I was fine with anything where I could use my imagination, and not very good with the other stuff!

Loved chemistry, biology, English, history and RE! Hated physics and Latin.
Am I arts or science orientated?

English, English, English - and French, and Latin, and History. Liked Greek, hated Geography, Maths, all the sciences except biology (really liked it)

It was Maths that made me feel completely inadequate. Still could, but I can do Arithmetic so what the hell!

French - the only school prize I ever received was for French in my GCE year. I enjoyed English, too. My true bête noir was, and is, sixty years on, mathematics.

Duh, I just don't got that kind of brain!

My favourite subjects were english, P.E and domestic science, thats fancy words for cooking !!
I hated science, all I can remember of the lessons was drawing a bunsen burner and pressing some leaves in a book .
French was not high on my lessons to enjoy so I was never any good at it I did once come second in an exam but that was because the girl in front of me left her paper out where I could see it. She came first !

Just had a rethink.

Loved Latin.

Hated sport.

Looking back, the reason was teaching. The Latin teacher was a lovely man, a gifted teacher. The PE mistress was an evil sadistic creature from hell.

Generally I was good at arts subjects, poor at science (except biology) and maths (except geometry).

I thought I was bad at maths thanks to the awful free learning system in place at my primary school in the mid seventies. We could do what we wanted when we wanted and I was scared of the maths teacher so never did it. Read my way round the library though because the 'naughty boys' never went there and I was scared of them too.
Didn't learn my tables etc and it's always held me back in Maths. Love algebra though and got a B at O level so couldn't be that bad at it.
Loved all science subjects and hated Art and drama.
I would have much prefered an old fashioned way of learning instead of the comprehensive system I was forced to endure.

I always enjoyed anything to do with the sciences so long as it wasn't too dry (eg physics and chem) but my passion was biology, I'd read Hugh Lofting and Gerald Durrell as a kid so anything with chlorophyll or a heartbeat and I was there!

Economics was a favourite lesson as our teacher was a WWII tank commander and it didn't take much to get him off the track. Someone would ask about steel production in the Ruhr and he was off on delightful tangent that lasted until the bell rang!

The downside was our headmaster who was a C of E canon and grand master of the Lodge and an odious waste of oxygen, but of course our parents thought he must be a wonderful man simply because he was a C of E canon and grand master of the Lodge.

This is interesting - could you still do it?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030673/Could-pass-11-plus-Exam-papers-used-1950s-puts-family-test.html

I was terrible at everything left a direct grant school with English Lit and Language and Art O Levels and scraped a 2 in CSE Maths. All made worse because my sister was a star pupil. Really surprised myself by going to Uni at 30 after getting A-Levels and got a degree.
Some people aren't ready to embrace academia in their teens- unfortunately its become far harder to pick up again later in life.