# What's the Toughest High School Course You Passed?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 11, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-toughest-high-school-course-you-passed/757119 "2016-06-11T16:48:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-toughest-high-school-course-you-passed/757119/41 "2016-06-13T20:00:23Z")

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Adult Christian Life (I went to a private, Catholic HS).

I had already decided I wasn’t a Christian, I was certainly in no way an adult, and the teacher and I didn’t see eye-to-eye on anything. He was determined to make the class as difficult for me as he could.

I failed, but it turns out my HS couldn’t refuse you a diploma for failing a religion class. I had to do “school service work” that summer (painting lockers, mostly) to “pass” the course

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-toughest-high-school-course-you-passed/757119/42 "2016-06-13T20:05:34Z")

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For me, it would have to be a tie between Personal Finance (a graduation requirement that I ended up taking in two separate semesters to get the full credit) and Geometry. Not because the material was challenging but exactly the opposite: I struggled mightily to not doze off.

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