What type of student where you?

?i was a geek, a straight A student who was in top sets for everything!!(those that know me will find it hilarious!)

I wasnt in the popular group but hung out with them in lessons and was friends with them, never had any trouble! me and my 2besties were known for knowing all the gossip as we were friends with them and then other gorups of kids, was fun, i loved school!!

I then went to uni and it went downhill from there ?

I went to a private school, so compared to most, I was a saint, but compared to everyone at my school I was a right rebel. I had so much fun at school, (although i suppose it didn't feel like it at the time) looking back now i loved it.

Worst thing i did was stealing the master key for everyones lockers and switching them all round. We found this hilarious but got in so much trouble.

Secondary school was the worst time of my life. The first couple of years I was a very academic, top of the class kind of person. I was bullied pretty badly and realised that being clever gave me unwanted attention, to the point where I would deliberately put the wrong answers in tests so I wouldn't be top of the class. I was a good but not amazing student ever since. I don't think I'm particularly clever now, I think I was just advanced for my age back then, but I still tend to dumb myself down when I meet new people, and its only very recently that I realised I do it.

I was a top set student in everything, and was constantly put on what they called ' extension plans' . I was very chatty, never did my homework and my teachers told me I was wasting my potential, wouldn't amount to anything etc. wiped the smile off their faces with my results. Ditto at a level, one of my lecturer es told me there was no point in going to my exams as I wouldn't pass! I ended up with 4 (old fashioned) a levels at b&c so not that bad! Still gutted about my 2:1 at uni though

The popular girls at my school were all the really slaggy ones who Wore a lot of gold. I was called a goth or a grunger even though I was far from, I think it's the only other catagory Thier poor brains could handle!

I was horrible☹️

On reflection I was in top set for everything but didn't have any idea I was at all academic because I never got that impression at home.

I was a very good little girl in primary school and the beginning of secondary school. I always did my homework and I enjoyed school because I did well. I got a prize in Prizegiving every year at primary school and was usually at or near the top of the class.

Things went downhill a bit after I got clinical depression in year 9 and missed more than a third of the school year, and wasn't much use when I was in. I still passed all my exams etc but I wasn't really well enough to cope, and was just very unhappy and probably didn't hang around with the right people, in retrospect. Things improved though and I did pass my GCSEs and then A-levels.

My sixth form tutor (who I LOVED and would do anything for) always said "you do work hard... but only for things you are interested in" which was and still is true! I never did any work during the year for History A-level and it really peed my teacher off when I crammed at the end and got an A ?

I was top set for pretty much everything except for art and PE. I was very much a goody goody and was terrified of getting told off. I mellowed out a lot in sixth form. We had about 5 levels of popularity groups and I was in the middle. Although I had a few friends who were more popular I'm fairly sure most of my year had no idea I even existed.

The only rebellious thing I did was make sure that my GCSE music recording sessions always coincided with either maths or PE. No idea how I got away with that as I missed lots of lessons.

Flow, other than the fact you are married and upduffed, are we the same person??????

A naughty one. I was suspended 3 times! ?

I always used to skip lessons, I was a right cheeky little *** and I'm actually embarassed by it now. I did still manage to get A's and B's though, it annoys me when I look back now as if I had worked harder (especially at sixth form) I could have done so much better.

wahahahahaah!!!!

I was a proper little goody two shoes up until the age of about 16, when I just sort of lost momentum! I went through a stage of just not doing any work for some reason, and I got a bit of a backside kicking from the teachers. I went to an all girls grammar school and they pushed us quite hard. I got my act together for my A levels and got all A's in the end. I love learning though, I loved school. *is a geek*

I hated school. I was bullied and unhappy and depressed. So I made myself as small as possible and never spoke up and tried to stay off everyone's radar.

Good job things are better now!

We had three groups within our year - the Smooths who were the sort of popular kids (well they though they were) and very much a clique. If it was an American high school movie the Smooths were the Prom queen type girls and jock type boys. At the other end were a few quite strange kids who just hung out in the library (they weren't geeky though, more just a bit outcast) but there were maybe only 6 or s of them - the largest group of us were the average ones in between - all quite friendly to each other with a range of intelligence etc. The uber smart ones and geeky ones were in this group, as well as the 'bad boys!'

As a student myself I was pretty good early on and got straight 1s in my Standard Grades - but by Higher stage in last couple of years I'd discovered boys and booze, I had part time jobs and school was more of a social club!! I was in the big average group but I had a friend who was a cross over smooth because she was childhood friends with one, so I ended up at their parties and knew the gossip!

It's quite funny to see how everyone has turned out - I wish the teachers could see how good some of the supposedly 'bad kids' have turned out after they told them there would be no hope for them ever (I don't think they are allowed to say stuff like that to kids now adays!)

I was mostly in B class for everything (i.e. one below top set out of about 7 sets). I dropped my rubbish subjects (history and geography) as soon as I could.

Early on in comprehensive I was a quiet swot. Not particularly unpopular but certainly didn't register on people's radars.

I became a bit naughty throughout the last few years of comp. A few of us hung around with some rough kids from other schools and I did a fair few things I shouldn't have.

Grades remained fine though.

I worked hard in first & second year, kinda took third & fourth year off & then knuckled down fifth year.

I hated math & science so the only subjects that I enjoyed was English, English Lit & History. I excelled in 6th year - I did English, History & Media A Levels and got a couple of prizes for high grades.

I was a swott at Uni - I loved my degree. I rarely went out - I has been going out drinking since I was 14 so by time I got to uni I was ready to knuckle down whereas everyone else seemed to have been let loose! I have an excellent relationship with my parents & very honest - they always knew where i was.

I only starting skipping classes in final year so I could concentrate on the modules I was going to use in dissertation, I narrowly missed out on a first which still pains me. I had been accepted onto a Masters for Irish Literature but I didnt want the debt & because I missed my first the funding wasnt applicable to me.

I try to block out the memories of senior school as much as I can. It wasn't pleasant at all.

When I first started I tried to be as good as I could as I had been at junior school. Teachers tended to be quite friendly to me as I had to work really hard to get good marks, both things which made me a target for the bullies. They weren't too bad at first, they were even friendly to me once they found out I went to dance classes, but in year 9 when I decided to get my hair cut short (like Claire from Steps) it got worse and because I liked sport I was the 'butch ***' and they would either duff me up in the showers after PE or shout obscenities at lunch. I had a few good friends but they were quiet and we weren't the sort to stand up for what's right. The teachers were fully aware of what was going on but it seemed that even they were scared of the bullies.

One day, the bully girl slapped me on the field when I was at lunch with my friends. I lost it and punched her square in the nose. Blood EVERYWHERE. I got carted off to the Head of House's office and rollocked for violent behaviour, my tutor stuck up for me because he'd seen it first hand in tutor what I'd been going through (my tutor and head of house happened to be Husband and Wife so I caused world war three there). They were going to exclude me for a week so I phoned Mum and she marched up to the school and went ballistic at HoH.

The girls never bothered me after year 9 and the incident with my Mum, I like to think that it was my punch but it was mainly because all of the houses integrated for classes in year 10 & 11 instead of just your tutor group. After that I did okay. I got 11 A-C GCSEs and was a good student because I had to work bl00dy hard to get those grades.

I was middle class in everything except science where I was top.

socially I was one of the 'kool' kids, smoking, drinking, weed, pretty chavtastic.

I suppose I was pretty average. I was in top sets for everything, but I reckon I was the dumbest in the class haha.

I got told off a lot for talking, got a couple of detentions for it too. I talked A LOT! Parents evenings would always be "She's a bright girl, but often gets distracted with talking."

I was a bit of a joker too, playing tricks on kids and teachers. Although, one day I caught one of the teachers in a bad mood and got a school detention for calling him fat.

Socially, again, I was pretty average. I had my small group of friends which I hung around with every day, but there was also a wider group of friends that I would talk to and occasionally "hang" with. There wasn't anybody I didn't get on with.

Absolute nerd (see the "School" thread for details!). Top set for everything, straight As, very enthusiastic, never had a single detention. Socially I was in the nerd group too, although I did date one of the popular boys for several months - which HE asked to keep secret so his friends "wouldn't give me a hard time". Looking back, he obviously didn't want to be made fun of for dating the school geek!!

ETA - forgot college & uni!

At college I felt much more comfortable because everyone in my classes wanted to be there, rather than having to be there. I did get a bit carried away with pub trips instead of lectures to start with, but knuckled down by exam time and did well in my A levels. I loved college. best 2 years of my education.

First time at uni, I hated it. I was 18, living in london and permanently homesick. I dropped out at the end of my first year & it took four more years before I reapplied to a different uni. By the time I started my degree again, I had 2 kids so I was marked out as one of the "grown-ups" in the class. Still nerdy as hell, but luckily that was considered cool at uni so I got on well with everyone, especially as we were a tiny, close-knit class (about 20 or so on our degree programme).

I was very academic at school and never had to try very hard, or revise to ace exams. The pretty, popular group were slags who smoked and got fingered on the field at lunch time, I wasn't in their clan. I had a couple of good friends, but I wasn't popular.

Then I got a boyfriend and a-levels were a bit harder (especially when you miss most of the lessons!) so I did have to pull my socks up for those exams.

Uni, I muddled through, missed most lectures but read up in my own time. It all came together in the end. Uni was too fun to study!

The PhD is just driving me bananas.

I think I preferred working at Morrisons.

I went to a really small all girls school so it was mega b!tchy most of the time but I got on ok with most people. I was in the largest group of girls but that was just because we'd all been through primary and secondary together, we weren't ever mean to new people but looking back we could have made more of an effort. I was a straight A student and considered myself to be the cool one out of my friends, they all listened to cheesy pop music and drank smirnoff ice but I was into grunge/punk and drank Jack Daniels. I never did anything that bad at school, I went off the rails a bit at college/uni but still always managed to cram in enough studying to do well.

This is me too. I continued geek-dom until after first year of uni. Let's just say I don't actually remember much of my second year.

School swat, top sets, top grades all through, requested extra work for home. The kind of girl whose hand went up immediately for a question and was ignored by the teacher in order to give others a chance. They only used to come to me if nobody else got the answer.

I escaped most of the usual teasing/bullying/geek labels though, as my best mate's cousin was the stereotypical school "hard girl". I'm intrigued at those who sabotaged their academic progress to avoid attention/teasing/etc. I would rather have died that got an answer wrong on purpose.

My best friend credits me with keeping her academic progress up to scratch, via the intense rivalry between us (folders propped up, racing to finish answers first). She now says that she wants all of her kids to have a friend like me at school.

At university, someone once reported me for non-attendance at lectures though. Apparently (according to my tutor), their complaint was that I often didn't turn up to lectures but somehow I kept getting top marks and knowing all the answers. Bitter or what?

I went to a private all girls school, so while I am pretty clever I was never top of anything, but also never got in trouble, so got overlooked by lots of teachers! I definitely wasn't in the cool crowd: years 7-10 I was inseparable from 2 other girls, but when we mixed classes for GCSEs I made a couple of other friends. Was a bit more popular in 6th Form as I was on the fringe of the 'alternative' cool crowd. I was a bit of a swot: always handed in work on time and did consistently well but I never really enjoyed school. I was never bullied, which I am very grateful for, probably because I would sometimes let some of the 'cool' girls copy my homework.I never felt very settled at school, I had very low self esteem and felt pretty invisible. I loved university though - that's when I really came into my own. Would love to study further and do a PhD!

Pp what school did you go too?

My last 2 years of secondary school (equivalent to a-levels?) I was in Texas, living on my own in a flat across the street from my dad, so I had very little supervision. I managed to get good grades, but I skipped a LOT of school, and since the automated messages went to my phone number instead of my dad's, I got away with it! No one really cared, though, as I still aced every class and got into a great university.

I had dropped all the classes I disliked by then, too, so I was taking AP English, AP US history, AP studio art, wind ensemble (contrabass clarinet), marching band (drumline and pit percussion), and AP government/ecomonics. fun!

I gradually got cooler as I went through school!

I was always very academic and didn't have to work very hard for my grades. When I was in Year 7, I ended up befriending a group of serious geeks and hung around with them until the end of Year 7 when I became more friendly with a girl who ended up being my bridesmaid.

Other than the kids who were cool for the sole reason of being as hard as nails, there was the really popular crowd (like ATB says, the prom queens and the jocks) and we were probably one group below them on the coolness scale.

I got with my first boyfriend part way through Year 11 and he was one of the said jocks. That increased my coolness somewhat. By 6th form, the hard kids had all left and the common room was distinctly split into the cool ones (including the top "rung" of the slightly less cool ones), the goths and the in betweeners.

I was a prefect (we didn't have head boy and girl) and won leadership awards etc. I sung in the choir and played in the orchestra which was pretty much social suicide in my very sporty school but I didn't really care.

I went to school in Littlehampton Mini.

Ah I see, it was the mention of fields that confused me!

Can't quote on my phone Footlong, but it was literally a survival mechanism. I didn't have anyone to stick up for me, I have an older sister but to be honest mentally she's more like my younger sister, and I didn't have any friends to stick up for me as my 'friends' bullied me as well. Like AC, I learnt to keep my mouth shut and attract as little attention as possible. I still have it ingrained in me that being intelligent is not a good or likeable quality, even though I know it's not true.

I was a weird one at school. Went to an all Girls Grammar, never studied but was a straight A student and it top set for everything. I ended up being friends with all the different groups who always knew all the gossip, my close friends were the outcasts, goths / grungers, I wasnt either type but they accepted me and we had a lot of fun, they were all in the middle sets for everything so I ended up being friends with all the geeky lot in my top sets as well and because of junior school friends who I was still close to their groups of friends (the popular people) as well.

From about year 9 to january of year 13 I was out drinking / partying every weekend so never got round to studying. Got 10 A grade GCSEs without trying and then did my A level mocks and got U's... stopped going out for the rest of year 13 and turned it into ABB thank god.

I'm still really close with my group of friends from school and really miss year 13 hanging out in the common room and just chatting for hours on end, now that I live in another country and dont seem them often i miss it even more.

I was definitely a goody-two-shoes. I don't feel like I was a super-swot, but I was easily the top of my class, and as you might imagine, this resulted in a fair bit of resentment from others in the year. Like Footlong, I was always the one waving my hand, practically bursting to answer, while the teacher tried to find anyone else to get involved. I probably was an insufferable know-it-all, and people let me know about it in no uncertain terms! I desperately wanted to be Head Girl and it broke my heart when I didn't even get interviewed for it - I was convinced it meant I wouldn't get into medical school, and I cried in chapel in front of the whole school. ?

I think socially, I could be best summed up as "awkward." I was bullied a bit, only verbal stuff, by older girls and by boys and occasionally girls in my year, but nowhere near as badly as some people on here seem to have suffered. What I really struggled with was that I just didn't fit in. I didn't want to do anything rebellious like drinking or smoking, and although I mostly got on ok with the other girls in my year, I never really "clicked" with any of them and never felt included in the group. It was a small school, with only 15 girls in my year, so it felt very lonely if you were the one being left out. Unsurprisingly, I am not in touch with anyone from school, and haven't been for years, apart from congratulating a few on FB when they got married.

I was also a total failure with boys. I had at least 3 totally hopeless crushes which went on for nearly a year each, and ended up with me just humiliating myself, and them all going out with the same other girl in the year (my deadliest rival in almost everything at school!) But overall, although I wasn't happy all the time, I survived without too many scars. And it got me into the uni I wanted for the course I desperately wanted, which is where I had the best time of my life, so it was worth it in the end. ?