Proudest educational achievement?

[John Boy]

I know it doesn't sound all that great, but mine is getting a C in GCSE maths.

I first took it in January, and got a D, so I spent a while improving my coursework and extra revising. Retook it in May, and ended up with a C, meaning I was exempt from key skills at college

 

[Bad Ash]

Scoring 3% in my final university exam. And yes it did count towards my grade: a 2:2 - not bad considering

 

[B.M.F]

Getting my diploma in sports psychology and achieving it by only studying during calls on the call centre at work.

 

[Loft23]

I know it doesn't sound all that great, but mine is getting a C in GCSE maths.

I first took it in January, and got a D, so I spent a while improving my coursework and extra revising. Retook it in May, and ended up with a C, meaning I was exempt from key skills at college

I'm not sure what i've got yet for GCSE Maths but I have retaken every module exam apart from the main one obviously as well as spending ages after school trying to improve my coursework. After all that I hope it pays off.

 

[desprateseagull]

got some merit cup for effort in technical drawing at school (god knows how!), though i could only keep it for a day..

studying 2 years after work for a BTEC was good though- earned me a promotion- to chief bottle washer..

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Getting Distinction level for my City & Guilds certificate for Applications Programming using COBOL. This was a distance learning home study course.

Once I'd got that I changed careers and now I travel the world as part of my job.

 

[H block]

Getting my grade A plastering diploma from borstal all those years ago.
Have you noticed that you cannot get a decent tradesman now for love or money and that that coincides with the scrapping of the old borstals.
O.k> we had to put up with a bit of buggery now and again but my God can I put on some bonding.

 

[Frutos]

Our primary school has a swimming pool in which the water came up just just above my knees, even at the "deep" end, which made swimming rather physically impossible.

At my school, we had a year-end award ceremony where they would announce the top student in every subject, with one winner per subject for each year group.

I won the French, German and English awards for my year group in every single one of my 5 years at secondary school.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

getting my ONC in electrical installation





















only because i didnt shag my geography teacher
which wouldve been WICKED

 

[El Presidente]

One of my Uni finals was on 27 May 1983. Not a special day for most, but the previous day, Brighton and Hove Albion played in the FA Cup replay against Manchester United. I opted to go to the game, and was the only person travelling down from Manchester in Blue that day, much to the amusement of the natives.

I missed the football special on the way back, and so spent 6 hours on a slow train in the guards van as some of the United Northern Monkeys thought that I deserved a slap (probably right in retrospect) and the Guard protected me! Arrived at Piccadilly at 6.45am, went home for my pencil case, and sat down at 9.00am to throw away my 2:1 with a particularly shite effort at Corporate Finance. Gordon Smith has a LOT to answer for.

 

[Gerbil]

I passed my cycling proficiency test.

I didn't

 

[Juan Albion]

I am probably proudest of when I got 30 out of 20 for an essay in school on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904/05. Funny thing was, the question asked you to describe the significant land campaigns of the war and I only knew about a particular sea battle. Despite not tackling the proper question, my essay on the Battle of Tsushima was a right cracker, which was good since I got 0% out of the other 80% since I didn't even write another answer. If you got less then 30%, you had to resit the exam, so I got the passmark by answering only one question.

Bloody interesting battle, though, you know, the Battle of Tsushima. Russians sailed halfway around the world only to get massively beaten by the Japs. On the way, the Russkies attacked the fishing fleet from Grimsby, thinking they were Japanese torpedo boats, sinking one. This is known as the Dogger Bank Incident. They then turned on one of their own ships, also mistaking it for a Japanese warship thousands of miles from home. Clowns.

 

[Cian]

The great thing is that that certificate added about 10k onto my salary when I changed jobs.

Have you had to use AIX yet then?

I got 100% in an Access exam without having ever used Access and submitting the finished mdb file about 1/4 of the way through the allotted time period. Microsoft write very good help documents

 

[Another Berkshire Seagull]

When a university lecturer who previously had told me that joining Microsoft would be the worst career move I ever made came crawling back several years later asking if we had any places for his placement students.

 

[Juan Albion]

I am probably proudest of when I got 30 out of 20 for an essay in school on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904/05. Funny thing was, the question asked you to describe the significant land campaigns of the war and I only knew about a particular sea battle. Despite not tackling the proper question, my essay on the Battle of Tsushima was a right cracker, which was good since I got 0% out of the other 80% since I didn't even write another answer. If you got less then 30%, you had to resit the exam, so I got the passmark by answering only one question.

Bloody interesting battle, though, you know, the Battle of Tsushima. Russians sailed halfway around the world only to get massively beaten by the Japs. On the way, the Russkies attacked the fishing fleet from Grimsby, thinking they were Japanese torpedo boats, sinking one. This is known as the Dogger Bank Incident. They then turned on one of their own ships, also mistaking it for a Japanese warship thousands of miles from home. Clowns.

On second thoughts, it's the Word Association Game.