Have you ever failed a class at a university or college level? (if you went)

Yup, Math (Algebra). I failed because I’ve always failed at math, I dont “get” math, I dont speak math, I dont comprehend math. My number one problem is that I dont care to know math. I feel that I could learn just about anything that I want to dedicate myself to… math, puts me to sleep quite quickly. I could write an excellent research paper and for the most part I’ve been awesome with Science. When it comes to Math… my brain shuts off and says “Let’s go somewhere else”.

My resolution was to find a math credit I could actually sit through. Don’t try to drag yourself through something you cannot tolerate – you will be miserable and you will likely fail. To me, if your heart isn’t in it, what’s the point?

I failed accounting… because I couldn’t figure out when a debit becomes a credit when its a bank or a personal account

Yep. Learned twice as much the second time round – info I’ll actually retain and use.

I dropped out of university in my first year. I had struggled academically to get there, and scraped in to the one place that would have me with such low A level grades, and found that it was all way over my head. I was so far out of my depth, academically speaking.

No, I dropped my worst class on the last day to drop without penalty.

I failed an introductory Java programming class. It was a combination of aspects.
The teacher had a very strong Italian accent. It was hard work understanding him, I couldn’t keep up with him giving his “lectures” (which is a stretched definition of the word). It took me a really long time to figure out what an Inassed Fort Loop was.
He wasn’t really a teacher, he kind of gave the definition of a concept and then gave us examples to do. Which is fine if you’re someone who’s already inspired and interested in doing Java, but really hard if you’re completely unfamiliar with it and trying to get an understanding.
On top of that, I just had terrible study habits. I grew up being the guy who absorbed information through lectures and writing notes. Studying wasn’t necessary or helpful. So upon coming across an actual hard class, I didn’t know what to do.
And with programming, every lesson adds to the previous one. Unlike a History class where you can walk in any given day and completely understand the lecture.
By the time of the final, I was so far in the hole, that even if I got a 100% on it, I still would’ve gotten an F in the class.

I have in the past been an idiot and not applied myself. But when I did go back and really try I took two classes, each taught by the same professor, I should have failed but only his incompetence saved my grade. I ended up with two C’s because he didn’t collect work, didn’t follow the college’s rules for attendance or course materials and he bullshitted everyone’s grades.

He only talked about his work with a nonprofit and one tribe he worked with in the Amazon. This was an Soc 101 and Sex & Gender class. He told us up front he was only doing the classes for extra spending money and he never wanted to teach. He was everything a teacher shouldn’t be.

I couldn’t get interested in a class taught by someone who had checked out the day he agreed to teach the class. Adding to all of my problems with the class itself was the same exact issues @Sarcasm had in his class.

My professor was Polish with a THICK accent, students routinely talked amongst themselves to clarify what he had just said, and then continued with each other to get what he’d been saying while they were trying to figure out the last thing! I also learned mostly by lectures and notes and he only rambled about the Jacuna tribe, over and over and over.

I know more about them than I do anything that we were supposed to have covered in class. I didn’t do our two research papers for each class, I didn’t do the homework – I didn’t do anything. I didn’t know how to accomplish the tasks he gave us because of the way he taught.

I got a C in both classes because I was apparently forgettable in the group. Thank god.

I ended up lodging a complaint with the school.

My freshman year, I failed trigonometry, chemistry, and a health science course. That was about the time that I decided that maybe medicine wasn’t the field for me. My junior year, I failed an accounting class, though I blame the professor for that one.

I blame that on the Internet and my own poor self-discipline. That was the first time in my life that I had a decent connection on hand, and so I spent far, far too much time plowing through the Web.

I failed statistics 3 times before I passed, and dropped it twice as well. I’m math challenged, and had instructors from Pakistan and Iran who had heavy, heavy accents. They were grad students and more interested in their research than in teaching, and couldn’t understand why we were all struggling. Add to that, the text had really dense content, small type, and bad page layout. Studying was a total nightmare. I even had tutors. I finally lucked into a class taught by a visiting professor, and passed.

Statistics – I didn’t apply myself and didn’t seek help. The second time it was taken, I did much better and actually enjoyed it.

Geology of Virginia was a whole other matter. It was a stupid mistake to take it, as I had no interest in doing anything with the information in the future and tank when it comes to memorizing dates and all of those names/eras.

I dropped a couple but never failed any. There was only one professor I really couldn’t understand though his native language was English. But he had a deep Irish accent, and he sounded like he was talking with a mouth full of marbles. I might have “failed” that class if I hadn’t dropped it but I don’t think that was my fault.

I’ve failed on my psychology faculty last year. The reason why I failed was simply because I can’t cope well with certain studies on psychology and those observation of human behavior that I think as irrelevant. They didn’t kick my butt from there but I’m the one who decided to leave that place. I also realized that I won’t get any easy job from this faculty. I took literature class this year and I think it suits me better than my psychology class.

Nah, never failed any classes. [Double major, Biology (Pre-Med) and Education]

I never failed any classes, from kindergarten to college.

I’ve never failed a course in my academic history, and haven’t come close to dipping below a C at university. It’s usually General Education courses that do me in – they’re dull. I can ace my upper-division English courses without much problem, but asking me to sit through freshman Biology lectures is a nightmare.

I am in High school, hope I dont fail :(

Yes, State and Local Government IT WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE THING IVE EVER EXPERIENCED, so dull, so boring, not to mention it was online. I despise politics mostly, and why I CHOSE to take a class on them blew even me out of the water. Worst decision ever. I failed horribly.

Botany! Soooo boring .

At the end of my second semester sophomore year, I got an 0.564 GPA, or something minuscule like that; a D in one class, and in the others I got Fs. I was put on academic probation and called on the carpet of the Dean’s office. I didn’t think a dean at a school with 40,000 undergrads would give a shit, but there ya go.

Not fun, but I survived. Unfortunately, that meant I didn’t graduate with a 3.0+ cumulative GPA, which makes me ineligible to apply for certain jobs, no matter how intelligent I am or how otherwise qualified. For example, even if I wanted to, I couldn’t apply to be a New York City schoolteacher. A 3.5 GPA for undergrad is required, no exceptions.

Do the best you can. If you’re having problems, be it with the work itself (not my issue) or personal (totally my issue – I was having huge problems with my family), talk to someone ASAP so you don’t mess things up for yourself.

Heh, i failed 5 classes out of 6 last year, but italian universities don’t have a time limit on when you can give the exams for the classes you take nor in how many tries. In fact i only actually failed two, passed one and three i didn’t even try. The only limit is that we have 10 years to complete the five year course (six for the first three years then four more if you are accepted for a specialization).

I failed Financial Management of the Firm.

Few reasons why:

1) I didn’t have the study habits necessary to do whatever it takes
2) The teacher was a bad teacher. (A professor who did his master thesis on effective testing told me that if over a certain percentage, 70 or something, of the class all got a specific question wrong, then odds are that it was a bad question, and not a bad student body). Needless to say, all the students got the same questions wrong b/c the teacher created little intricate “tricks to catch you.” Well tests are to TEST your knowledge of the material, NOT your ability to dodge “tricks.”

By the way, @Triozoo welcome to fluther: Have you ever failed a class at a university or college level? (if you went) You can only fail a university class if you go to university.

;-)

I failed a class at the community college level, does that count? Well two. One was a horrible math class with a horrible teacher, who did not have any compassion on me when my youngest son was born six weeks early and I had to miss some time. The other one was a Philosophy class that one could use as a math credit. That was run by a guy with a P.h.d. who was proud of the fact that something like 83% of the students in his classes failed.

I failed 2 subjects while studying law through a correspondence university. One of them was banking law. I think i found it so boring that i couldn’t absorb the info or something.