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.

Maths and any Science subject. My degree was in English but I would have also liked to study History.

Ok gold shiver 😁. I meant cold shiver.

Nursing / midwifery / paramedic degrees - I’m far too squeamish and I’d fail at the first hurdle!

Engineering, physics, chemistry and probably computer science.... it's all a mystery!

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

These days gender studies because I think I’d last two seconds before getting kicked out for laughing.

Can I sit on the naughty step with you Fuckery

[quote BasiliskStare]@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

These days gender studies because I think I’d last two seconds before getting kicked out for laughing.

Can I sit on the naughty step with you Fuckery [/quote]
It’s a huge step Basilisk. Plenty of room.

History. Always excelled at maths and sciences, great at languages and anything art or technology. Got to the point with history in my pre-o-level year when I still had to do it where I scheduled a dental appointment (braces) or flute lesson for every lesson I could because I struggled with remembering it all and the teacher had decided I was lazy by the 3rd week so what was the bloody point in wasting my energy.

Chemistry. I just cannot make sense of the basics. And even when someone patiently does explain it so I can follow it, I've forgotten it completely 15 minutes later.
I can do other science stuff quite happily.

Maths or physics.

It's not that I couldn't on an academic level, as my dad keeps telling me. I'm smart enough to learn it.

I just don't give a toss. Find X? Well, when did you last see it?

Maths, anything scientific and art!

Physics, Chemistry.

Any foreign language.

Dance.

And, on a similar note to history, literature, classics and law, would be off the table.

I'd be the one flicking wet paper at the screen in gender studies!

And to be fair, maths. I had a good a level (1980s grade A) in maths and had to do a further maths module in the first year of my chemistry degree which included a lot of calculus and derivations. I got a first in that module but have no idea how.

Anything artistic or creative. I have always been completely hopeless at this stuff and dropped art before starting my O Levels.

My degree was in Politics & Economics so give me a copy of The Wealth of Nations or Das Kapital and a few psephological graphs and I’m as happy as a pig in shite.

I'd probably be ok for most things except sport related stuff which would be a non-starter.

Law might be tricky unless something seriously changed that would motivate me.

Sociology (and things like gender studies) I just can't take seriously; one course early in my medical degree included some sociology and I hated it.

But, like some other posters, I have actually studied medicine, maths, physics, education, and a bit of theology. My second choice course before I first started uni was a combined BSc/BA.

And if I were to go back to do anything at uni now it would actually be music because that's most relevant to my main current work!

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow - will bring cushions make naughty step comfier Maybe room for @PickAChew - I would say - sex is one thing Gender is another. So happy for people to live their lives as they will . But - in a seminar would probably be sent to naughty step. Sex is determined. Other stuff - fine

That said - Maths gets to a point where I can't do it. DH could maths to degree level ( and did well ) but even he says once it get hugely abstract - he struggled.

@rrhuth

Astrophysics. I get so with the scales involved, I can't even follow a Brian Cox documentary.

I watched one of his last night. After talking about one particularly confusing theory, he said not to worry if you don't understand it, he doesn't understand it either!!!

Would be terrible: Politics, literature, classics, fine art, maths, computing, medicine, law, veterinary science.

On the other hand - love the ologies: Anthropology, zoology, botany, geology, volcanology, meteorology, palaeontology, possibly architecture, and I think I'd have enjoyed sculpture or jewellery design. Music and dance too. My dc has a dance degree.

I ended up with accounting, and although I find it easy and it pays the bills, it's not what I'd call my dream job.

Most of them! Anything STEM, engineering, medicine, dentistry etc. And art and practical subjects.

Only humanities, languages and things like law, marketing, business.

English literature.

I studied it at A Level, but it seemed totally illogical to me to pull apart what is essentially a story to look for the hidden meaning...

Q) What is Joseph Conrad exploring in The Heart of Darkness?

My A) Well, he's off down the Congo...

Rest of the VI Form A) It's clearly examining man's interpretation of blah de blah de blah

Why do we think that authors actually mean something different to the words on the page?

Baffles me to this day.

(I do have a degree, just obv not in Eng Lit)

Physics 😢
Awful subject.

Have Maths, Chemistry & Biology Alevel which allowed me to study Dentistry thankfully without more than O'Level Physics.

Science and maths. I'm hopeless and just don't understand them - in our class we didn't even learn our times tables properly.

Most subjects tbh. I wasn't great at maths or science, hopeless at art, reasonable at languages but didn't enjoy doing them. I think I'd find law or anything financial really boring.

I was very good at English, but have no interest in writing or reading literature.

That said - Maths gets to a point where I can't do it. DH could maths to degree level ( and did well ) but even he says once it get hugely abstract - he struggled.

If I'd been required to do a maths degree, I'd have picked one with somewhat lower entry tariffs and a curriculum which looked to have a lot of more 'applied' content.

Anything. I have attempted uni 3 times now.

@ErrolTheDragon - Exactly so - DH was good at Maths Physics Chemistry - but at university - he hit the wall at one point with Maths. Agree - applied Maths - he can sort of get that & good at computing sorts of things . It is lovely for the human race that my DH never had to research Black Holes & others did .

I rather fell over once it got beyond arithmetic