<p>Ok, so I got my report card back today. I got 100 on the english regents and a 99 on the US regents. Last year, my highest grade on a regents exam was that of global, a 96. This bothers me. I find science to be fascinating and I have thus pursued that as a possible career path. But science/math and me don't seem to be friends. I find both subjects to be really quite interesting, but I consistently get B+s in them. And then do amazingly in more "humanities" ish classes like english, history, etc. And of course, I find english and history to be fantastically boring. </p>
<p>Is that weird? Does anyone else do amazingly in classes that they hate and worse in classes that they like? I feel like that's not normal, and I wonder why I want a job in the sciences if I'm much worse at that than something more "englishy." </p>
<p>Ok, I have no idea if that was coherent, but any responses would be appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>Maybe you would find higher level humanities stuff more interesting. High school level humanities is pretty watered down IMO.</p>
<p>In my opinion, English and History are much easier than Science and Math, but I like English and History a lot mor ethan Science and Math. lol.</p>
<p>Just because you get B+'s in science, doesn't mean you couldn't do it as a career. Maybe it's not your kind of science.</p>
<p>English and History do tend to be easier since they don't destroy your brain with millions of formulas.</p>
<p>Yes I do hate school math, and I do hate school science; however, I love doing mental math and using real world math. I get a kick out of figuring out an answer in a few seconds. I do really hate learning tons and tons of useless trig in precalculus though, from what I hear I won't even use most of it in calculus, and I definately won't be using it for my career.</p>
<p>English and History on the other hand are much more engaging as classes for me, and I enjoy reading in my spare time, and learning about history, so I guess those would be my better classes.</p>
<p>I've found that for most things you learn in school, the real world application for it is completely different, so if you like science, don't be discouraged by your classes right now, just try to learn as much as you can, then go to college and maybe enjoy it.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies, guys. they were helpful. i'll think about maybe looking in to humanities classes in college, and not give up hope about sciences as a future.</p>
<p>I wouldn't let regents be indicators of how well you are in a subject. Especially because English, US and global are needed by every single high school student to graduate high school, and thus I would assume that they are more generous in giving out points (I heard that this year's US regents was the hardest one ever, but I and most of my other friends got in the 99 range.)</p>
<p>The science and math tests, however, are harder. You only need a few of them to graduate, so once you get to chem and physics, they're getting hard. And they have a lot more places where points can be taken off. An essay can be graded liberally, but you can get the right answer on a physics part C question but only get 1 out of the 3 points because you forgot sig figs and units.</p>
<p>Grades also depend on how difficult a class is. I like Spanish and Human Geography much better than math and physics, yet grade-wise I did better in math and physics because Spanish and geo were honors/AP, while math and physics were regular.</p>
<p>right, but isn't a class difficult for each person differently? Like, I took honors chem last year, and I got a 94 on that regents, and honors math B last year and got a 95 on that regents, but english this year was AP and I got a 100 and US was just honors, and I got a 99. It just seems weird to me.</p>