hardest & easiest subjects in school?

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Hardest for me is history & current events/politics, without a doubt. These subjects seem to amount to large groups of people doing things I can't even begin to comprehend. I'm definitely missing some of the subtle nuances... (If anyone has any advice on how to understand/appreciate history I'd love to hear it.)

Easiest is math, logic, & the mathematical aspects of the sciences (I'm not particularly fond of labs--group work is not my forte). I find these subjects easier because the concepts can be mentally translated into nice, simple, friendly pictures. I like pictures...

Math is the answer to both for me. I can't explain how but it is

Math is the hardest subject for me, always has been. I've often thought that I have dyscalculia, but since I've never been tested for it, I don't know for sure.

Of my classes right now, psychology is the easiest (and most interesting). I also do fairly well in biological sciences, and english composition classes.

Math is easy if you follow the directions , math is difficult when you try to explain why something is there.
Math can be easy and hard in creativity depending on the problem.
Visualizing every single symbol into a single coherent picture in higher level abstractions ( excluding mathematical science )
In order to understand and create is even more difficult.

I've always found the direction-following to be the hardest part of math...I like figuring out how to solve the problems on my own. I always wished they would teach it that way--just give the class a problem and be like "you figure it out". I get impatient when it comes to following instructions.

I love math and loathe physics. I don't know what's up with that, but something about physics math is just...weird. It all goes over my head.

In high school: worst was math, best was probably English or some form of Social Studies (I like history, geography, anthropology-related things). (My FAVOURITE was drama, but it wasn't easy because I rarely participated. I just liked going to that class.)

When I went BACK to high school: best was math, worst was sociology or history (figure that one out )--though I did well in all of them anyway.

In university, my best subjects are related to my major, religious studies (highest grade so far: 104%...no, that is not a typo). Worst subject has been Chemistry (lowest mark so far: B--not sure of the %). Actually Chemistry has always been my worst, but I dropped it in both high schools and never finished it at all in the secondary level, so I didn't count it (I also tried taking high school Chemistry through correspondance, and once at the high school level AT my university before I was a university student------soooo, all things considered, a B with NOOOOO chemistry background whatsoever was not so bad. I did as well as all the science students since that was the class average).

Math has always been my most difficult subject; I've never really struggled anywhere else. The easiest subject for me would probably be anything to do with English.

I hated math, social studies and computers.. too much work!.. I loved languages.. they were interesting. I also liked Biology and Chemistry. I hated a subject if it involved a lot of memorizing esp dates in history and formulae in math.. that wasn't the case with chemistry equations and formulae though. physics is something that I disliked as the amount of math in it increased over the years.

Easiest by far: Languages, Music, History and anything that required just learning and repeating facts.

Hardest: Math, and all for one reason: Math used to be one of my favorite subjects before entering senior year, but it already started to lose this position when I entered high school. In elementary, we were due to many, many people dropping out for various reasons 16 in our class. In high school, we were 30. While I can calculate and generally work very fast, with 29 other folks around me, it just didn't work, I couldn't focus and just got more and more confused as lessons went on and I didn't have the time to catch up. At some point, I just said "Screw it!", took my F in math like a boss and scored A in subjects where classes were still about 15 to 20 people. Looking back, I only screwed up in classes where I the rooms were crowded - don't get me wrong, I was lazy as all heck in High School - so there is definitely a connection there.
With things like chemistry or physics, I was mediocre because I found both to be rather boring.

The hardest tasks for me were the lab experiments in natural science courses. I could never get them to work properly. I'd usually stand around and watch my lab partners go through the steps to make the experiment work. I did perform well on written tests, however. The easiest subjects were essay composition, history and geography.

Maths was terrible. ICT was always the easiest.

Currently on computer science education, and it's easy as pie for me for the most part. The hard part is going from C# to C++ and shedding the bad habits Intellisense (helping tool in Visual Studio) has given me.

The other challenge I have with C++ is proper memory management, but that's getting better

Looking back at college, the easiest for me was English (it was too easy considering it was the highest level).
The hardest wasn't math (only in the beginning of each topic... after a week or two we came to the "magic key" that solved evertything... i blame that on the books )
The worst was Communications & IT, not because of the content (among the topics were Photoshop, flash etc.), but because of the teacher. This guy basically pulled grades out of a hat... here's a story:

We were tasked on making a small, personal website each in two days, using whatever program we desired (as part of a layout curriculum). Now, most of us made the pages in frontpage (as we were taught that the week before) A few did it in Dreamweaver, but one (This guy was also a true linux wizard) did it entirely using nothing but Notepad and wrote up a quite advanced website layout in PHP, easily the best webpage of them all. The teacher gave him a failing grade because it was "too dark". From that point on the teacher's credibility dwindled steadily, as we found out he had basically never seen a webpage layout paper since the spinning .gif era (late 90's ). So basically the hardest part was to find out what the teacher actually wanted to see...

Easiest for me is science, mathematics, history, and political science. Hardest for me was English, some humanities, and some fine arts. When I took philosophy, I had my doubts, but at the end I liked it.

Easiest ever: Anatomy/physiology, neuropsychology, foreign language (especially Spanish).
Hardest ever: Trigonometry, calculus-based physics (the math part only- I have a good conceptual understanding of both classical and quantum/modern physics).