Do you wish you'd of tried harder in school?

[A]

If your still in school, do you try hard or just let it pass by?

Personally, during school I did the most I think I could however everyone was telling me I needed to push myself, but I knew I was doing all I was capable of doing.

[scottish]

No school means nothing.

[mrwoooooooo]

not at all, loved being lazy at school

[dbgtz]

It would have made no difference, so no.

[Mark]

I wish I had appreciated school for what it was when I was there. I tried fairly hard in school however would like to have tried harder. At the end of the day hindsight is a wonderful thing and we'd always do things differently the second time round.

[MKR&*42]

I wish I'd tried harder in school + college and kept up with the latter.

Reality really does bite you on the ass sometimes.

[Sharon]

no at the end of the day I acknowledged that I had the natural ability to be able to do well if I tried or not lol and I was garaunteed to pass every subject anyway because I could get something no one else did even if I wasn't paying attention. do I wish I tried harder to achieve the potential of getting an A in every subject??? maybe, but I don't see why I would put myself to unhappiness for no good reason other than a piece of paper

still got better results than most of the people who stayed after school every day and sat at home revising

[Matt]

I did quite well with my school results and I think I did try hard. I could've pushed myself so that I was really stressed and always studying (which probably would've seen higher results) but all in all I think my effort at school was fine and it got me to where I want to be.

[Krazybethw]

I did well at school. It was college I screwed up and wish I could br back there. :g

[Kyle]

I've always worked hard in school anyway. I do wish I didn't let things affect me as much as they did in the past so that I could've achieve my full potential but I'm happy with where I'm at now and don't anymore so it's all good.


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[Inseriousity.]

Not school, no, but I wish I'd tried harder in college. Like Shaz, I don't need to revise to pass anything and do well but I could've done better if I worked a little harder. I got a first in uni but some graduate jobs want a degree and 300 UCAS points and I'm just shy of that.

[Jurv]

nope because i'm still where i want to be rn, school was just something to get through

[jake87385]

I think when I was in school I had a healthy balance of kicking footballs stupidly hard at small goal keepers to see if they'd hit the back of the net and keeping focused and revising. Ended up with mostly C and B grades in GCSEs, could of been worse, I did throw a year of College away doing Lvl 3 BTEC extended diploma in IT and Universal Media but I'm doing engineering now so its not all bad

[Shockwave.2CC]

I did try hard it was the ***** that made it not work for anyone unless you studded at home after school for like 7hrs a day

[Cassiieee]

Not really. I didn't really go to school since i was 12 as i ended up moving country and couldn't understand the language. I still managed to get myself into college and get my qualifications. So, i find you don't really need school to get where you want to be in life. We always tend to do things differently if we are offered a second chance. I would do everything the same.

[Marbian]

Teachers said I'll regret not trying hard at school when I reach 21... 100% true.

[Shar]

I'm quite happy where I'm at atm so I don't have much regret about how I did at school.

[karter]

academically no. socially yea

[welshcake]

In some subjects I do.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I do and I don't. But a lot of what I have learnt has been self taught general knowledge and it often comes in useful with the subjects I am doing much more than my subjects at school have come in handy, so yeah I would rather take what I learnt rather than what I did at school.


Not school, no, but I wish I'd tried harder in college. Like Shaz, I don't need to revise to pass anything and do well but I could've done better if I worked a little harder. I got a first in uni but some graduate jobs want a degree and 300 UCAS points and I'm just shy of that.

You have a degree (a 1st) yet they still count Ucas points? That's absurd.

[Richie]

I worked hard in my early years of 2ndry school but that declined quickly, I do wish I did better.

[Brad]

I sort of wish I did, although looking back on it now it probably wouldn't of made a difference because in my last year of highschool I pushed as hard as I could.

Looking back at Uni... I think I did as well as my prof would let me. Sometimes it is just too darn hard to try to persuade a teacher of your view when they base their whole PhD off of it.

[Armset]

loved being lazy at school then i got a shock when i was lazy at sixth form and didn't do too well in my a-levels, but hey-ho i'm at uni now so it's all good!

[Zak]

It would have made no difference, so no.

this

[UnrealGoffEmo]

I wish I had appreciated school for what it was when I was there. I tried fairly hard in school however would like to have tried harder. At the end of the day hindsight is a wonderful thing and we'd always do things differently the second time round.

Same here and then when you "hit" that between School and College stage I'm at you begin to wonder and ask questions of yourself!! Though both my Skool's was dumps and you could get no work etc done or you was segregated into certain sub groups by m8s - then either love that or loafe it and never be m8s again- they made Waterloo Rd (Rochdale era) look innocent in comparison

[Alkaz]

I wish I could go back to school now with the knowledge that I've now got. It would be a hell of a lot easier haha but yes I do wish that I had tried harder at school. I naturally excelled at several subjects and just kind of assumed I was doing the same in everything else when in fact I wasn't.

[James]

yes

[Yupt]

I didn't work at school very much at all, instead I focussed on sport and extra curricular. However i'd still like to know what grades I could have got if I actually applied myself, my tutors and teachers were forever telling me how much I was wasting my abilities.

Saying that I still got reasonable grade and got into my first choice University.. so no is that answer to the question I guess.

[Nick]

In some subjects I wish I tried at bit harder but to be honest I breezed through school, done exams in year 10, none in 11 or 12.

[element]

Would you rather be the most popular kid in school or the smartest kid in school?......... ---- Smart kid because Im neither now but I think brains are more important. Idk. I wish I was smart lol.

[velvet]

i regret dropping out, but with the way things were i'm proud of what i managed to do.

[Phil]

If I studied a lot more I could have done so much better in my end of school exams but tbh that would have lead me into a course that I realise now I did not want to do and I would have met wixard; ewwwwwwwwww!!! I love my life now so I am really pleased with how things turned out and the path that I have taken

[Joe]

I could've done so much better in my AS results, got BBD (and failed maths but idc about that), I really could've done better and it'd help a lot more right now when I'm trying as hard as I can right now to get A2's...