Rob Brydon Quotes

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

I sucked in school.

I was terrible at school.

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

A final is a final, and is motivation in itself.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

If a teacher goes, 'Do you guys want an easy test?' You're going to say, 'Heck, yeah.' The less you've got to study, I'm going ace this test.

To be honest, I was not very good in studies; I was an average student. I used to work hard, whether it was for wrestling or studies, as I considered myself not that talented. I used to mug up everything during exams.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.