#56

I failed my third year of university three times. Same module each time, my dissertation, which I failed during the year and during the summer repeats, meaning I failed that module six times.

Nailed it on the seventh try though. Had to get special dispensation from the university to enroll again. Worked until Christmas, quit my job then and knuckled down and did it. Got a 1st in it when the results came out. Could have performed a standing backflip there and then I was so happy. Probably just got super drunk instead.

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#57

Oh, and failed at loads of relationships and that. They’re not fun to talk about though, unlike my story above.

#58

I’ve passed the theory (twice now) just trying to find time to do the practical
will need to redo the CBT as well now

#59

Yeeeeeeesh! Would they not have let you sit the test at another time? Also, what’s an access course? Forgive me being thick, don’t have that as a name for anything here.

#60

I have done this many, many times. You don’t seem like a failure at all when I read your posts! Wouldn’t consider you as one at all.

#61

access course is for thickos who don’t have the required grades to go straight to uni, man. simple one year course to see whether the academic life is for you, or not.

they did offer me the gig a week later, as my personal statement was something to behold apparently (thanks @Songs_about_ducking ) and some chump had pulled out, but I had some other things going on then anyway.

c’est la vie, maaaaaan

#62

Don’t remember failing a school exam bar my technology SAT after i’d smoked some brutal doobies. Had a weird knack of sailing through exams without doing any revision at all and attending as few lessons as possible. Ultimately, COURSEWORK.

Failed a couple of driving tests.

#63

Ahhh, gotcha. We don’t have anything similar to that here I think.

Jazz life skillz, jazz life.

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#64

Further Maths and Chemistry AS

#65

Haha maybe not myself!

#66

I was going to say a number of job interviews but, looking back on it, the standard of candidates was very high and they’ve kept my details on file, so maybe too soon to call it a failure.

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#67

I once got a mark of 16 on a uni module. Wish I hadn’t bothered showing up for the exam.

#68

Post/username

#69

failed my ICT GCSE.
it was a year long assignment that the teacher just left us to get along with. spent most of my time dossing about cos of attention deficit / not caring that much. handed in a half finished thing

#70

I had exactly the same thing, we had 3 teachers over the 2 gcse years. Each time they came in and said we were going completely wrong and made us start again - I remember year 11 Easter holidays they said we have to come in if we wanted to get coursework done and pass, obviously cba with that and had to do ‘key skills’ at college as a result which was basically showing us how to use word and excel lol

We used to just do drawing competitions on paint during IT.

#71

3/4 of my college class didn’t have C grade in IT, so we all had to do key skills. teacher did fuck all and most of the class failed the multiple choice assessment. i didn’t though, cause i knew everything, just never did IT at gcse in the first place.

#72

yeah the exact same thing happened to us, think we had 2 teachers cos the first one sprained his ankle playing badminton and couldn’t come in anymore (??)

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#73

That’s a fantastic excuse

#74

Think we’re all similar ages right?

Feels like IT at school was so shit as they couldn’t afford decent stuff and it was before iPads and coding and all the stuff schools do now, so it was basically making spreadsheets on excel which literally everyone could already do. Pointless fucking lesson

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#75

Like the stuff I’m teaching year 5 is way more advanced than anything I did at school.

No wonder everyone thought it was a fucking doss lesson