Which subject if taken at an undergraduate level could you never pass?

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For me I would say linguistics, any explanation loses me almost immediately. Maybe Law, I'd have to be extremely bored to even begin to think about trying to care.

Computing intruiges me, I know absolutely nothing about it, it would take a long time for me to learn but hopefully I could pass.

@HeartvsBrain

Media Studies, some might think it is the easiest subject to study, I would get exactly no-where, even though I love a lot of the things that come under that umbrella term.

I am doing a law masters right now and doing some media law things -how it works with social media and privacy /defamation. I am really enjoying that side of the degree -law plus fun stuff (computer games law and film law as well plus law in fashion/music)

Anyone can pass anything in my experience. The brightest students often aren't the ones who do well, it's the ones that put effort in and engage all the way through (not just at the end).

Having said that I wouldn't be able to pass clock change studies. My brain just cannot compute which way the clock goes and what that means. Are we getting up later? Will I be tired? When's bedtime? Will I be hungry later or earlier? No amount of explanation helps.

@sashh I’d fail music in 2021 even though I have a 1975 a level and my old fashioned 1978 Cert.Ed teaching qualification is main subject music! Because I can’t do music technology, I just play the piano and know the theory!

Degrees o'd gate would probably be more philosophical type ones. All theory and no actual reality.

So done law and accounting over 2 degrees. Think maths or physics may be okay (boring but did at a-levels)

Languages also okay as I can learn in classes, just wouldn't really interest me.

Maths

Drama, art, music ( theory I can do, performance not and esp not composition).

No problem with sciences (already have a physics degree or two), medical related things, history, business. Maths/comp sci/languages would take a lot of focus but I could do

Clock change studies???
Is that a thing? Can't say I've ever heard of it, as an academic subject for study, that is.
For me, I'm fine with languages, arts and humanities but maths and physics are a closed book to me.

I failed the reaction engineering questions in my finals and thirty odd years later I’m pretty confident that I would fail them now too. It’s a blind spot verging on a phobia due to who taught us that subject. I do teach bits of it now and I’m confident about it but if I was confronted by one of Dr Death’s (not his real name obviously) questions I’m sure I would still go blank. There are lots of my colleagues’ exam papers that I would need to do a lot of work to pass well but equally they look at mine and say the same. I like to think exam technique would get me close to a bare pass in most things.
Other than that I think I would struggle with a lot of physics because it seems to be mostly imaginary and I’m not great at imagining things in seven dimensions. The maths is too abstract as well.

Maths. I was great at Maths until the second year of A Levels when I hit a wall and just couldn’t understand any more than that.

Anything like art, drama, dance - I’m not creative or talented enough.

I also would struggle to do anything I wasn’t actively good at - if I was going to just scrape a pass but not do well then I’d hate that.

I think I could do most things - providing I had studied the GCSE/A Level courses beforehand.

I am useless at art, and feel that's something I probably couldn't do. But other than that, or similar things that require specific skills that you either have or you don't, I honestly think I could pass most things.

@SiobhanSharpe

Clock change studies??? Is that a thing? Can't say I've ever heard of it, as an academic subject for study, that is. For me, I'm fine with languages, arts and humanities but maths and physics are a closed book to me.

No, thankfully

Maths, Physics, Chemistry, accounting, anything scientific or analytical. Actually it's quite a long list

STEM, music or drama, anything sports related.

I think I could give most other subjects a go.

I'd forgotten about music. My guess is that I could have faked some of the other creative subjects well enough to scrape a pass if I'd had to, but not music.
I wouldn't pass anything now - the thought of doing an exam under timed conditions which I used to rather enjoy now fills me with dread.

Art, music, drama, language. Medicine/nursing as I am very squeemish!

I have a degree in maths, the divide is definitely between arts/sciences from previous replies!

Languages! Because I tried it
I was amazing at gcses, passed at college, teachers all said I was a natural.. and then got to uni and it was all gobbledegook, the level jump was insane.

Considering I'm struggling to support DS in his Y9 maths work right now, I'd say maths, and any of the sciences (physical and social) involving maths--so physics, chemistry, economics, engineering, etc...

On the plus side, I did pass linguistics. And I like to think I could pass the theory side of a medical degree. Medical information really sticks in my head for some reason.

But I could never pass the practical side of a medical degree in a million years. My dexterity is very poor. The thought of trying to take someone’s blood and having to go in more than once, while they were wincing - aaargh!

Art. I can barely draw a stick person and was advised very strongly not to take it as a GCSE subject.

Maths. I'm still amazed I passed my GCSE as there is no chance I would nowadays

Art. All art classes were just an exercise in humiliation, from as young as I can remember. I was delighted to be able to chuck it in aged 13.

There is no amount of teaching that could change this unfortunately!

Physics.

Drama, because I would loathe being watched actually doing it.

I’m currently studying Microbiology.

I’d fail - anything Physics or Maths or Chemistry based, anything that requires me to be creative.

@alwayscrashinginthesamecar1

identical looking supply and demand graphs that were meant to prove wildly opposite theories.

That might be why they say if economists 'if they were all laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion'

Maths or science of any description. Weirdly my offspring is a scientific and mathematical genius 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Mittenmob

Anyone can pass anything in my experience.

I was just coming in to say with the right motivation and the right teachers, anyone can learn anything. Then someone mentioned Art and Drama and I literally felt a gold shiver down my spine, so maybe not those.