When you were young, which subject seemed the most difficult to learn
Reading and writing
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Math and science
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Writing was dead-easy, as was grammar and everything, but for some reason in classes and standardized tests I always did poorly (relatively) in Reading classes. On tests it was the "reading comprehension" sections that I did badly in - I was a fast and competent reader, well above the crowd in how much I read and at what level, but apparently I didn't cut it in "comprehension". It led me to believe to this day that "reading comprehension" tests are fundamentally flawed, because for some reason I consistently did much more poorly on exclusively that section of general tests. As for classes, I probably did badly because I never read anything the teacher assigned - I was a bit rebellious, reading what I want when I want (fuck this R.L. Stein, I'm reading Jack London!), so naturally the pop quizzes were a killer. Side: Reading and writing
Math and Science always just made sense to me... completely logical. although i am at most a good speller, and i would read way beyond my reading level, i always had a problem with reading comprehension. I hated boring stories, so i had a problem with knowing what i just fuckin' read a lot of the time. especially when taking tests on some article about trees and shit... how do they expect a kid with ADD to know what he just read when it was about something as fuckin' boring as trees. and grammar sucked too at times because 1. i never found it useful, so it never stayed in my mind after a few months 2. i still don't even know why i should know what an antithesis is... why is it important to know what parallelism is... for when i have to write an analysis on something? "lol, the author uses parallelism". Side: Reading and writing
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