Are/were you intelligent at school?

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Are/were you intelligent at school
I'm poor at school and studies

I was/am fairly intelligent if you go by IQ. However, my grades in school never reflected that due to boredom, stress, anxiety, not fitting in, etc. I was totally uninterested in what went on at school and couldn't wait to get home to study things that interested me.

Neither. Even I can go straight A+ (that's the common equivalent to score of 95+ here) if I want to except I don't. Because of demands and unnecessary expectations of honor students, along with children being children... I don't need to study to pass as I don't have motivation at all unless I'm seriously interested. Especially the fact that I have to face those hormone raged teens back in high school (not really middle school. there was no middle school here until recently). Except in order to get jobs after college that is. I barely took school seriously, but cautious enough to have all requirements.
But regardless my academic standing, it's useless because it doesn't teach seriously necessary things in real life.

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I was an above average student in elementary school. In junior high I was barely making the grades as I was daydreaming instead of paying attention. In high school I also did quite poorly, couldn't concentrate on my school work, and barely earned a high school diploma. I'm was viewed as very smart but lazy and unmotivated by my fellow students. I had to go back after graduation and test up certain subjects to get good enough grades to be accepted into college.

That said, I did score in the top 1 percentile in the SAT (my home country's version of it) and I currently carry a 4.0 GPA while pursuing my master degree. I have the intelligence to do great in academic circles, but I have a hard time staying motivated if the subject doesn't interest me.

I did horrible at elementary school because the normal teaching method in public school does not match with my cognitive style. The inability of understanding instructions and interacting with peers did not help at all. Everyone regarded me as mentally ret*d.
For secondary school I did even worse because of the absence of motivation/interests and low self-esteem. I was doodling all over my textbook while others busily building up their GPA.
However I'm now doing quite well academically in college, and I intend to go into the research field. That surprised me, so do what my peers and lecturers/psychologists told me - now everyone suspect that I'm gifted.
I'm not sure if I could just blame my poor achievement earlier on to public schools, neglectful parents and teachers, but I can't help thinking how much more I could have achieved if I had better education or guidance during those years.

I didn't do very well until history became a subject when I was in the fourth grade - That was the first time I was interested in anything at school. From then on I was poor or marginal at math - between marginal and okay at most other things and almost a prodigy when it came to social studies.

The options are kind of limited. :/

Anyway, I had fair intelligence in my eyes, but my teachers often pushed me a lot. They thought I had more potential than what I was really offering. It was extremely frustrating for me because I would struggle day to day, and they were too ignorant and oblivious to see how much I was suffering. ><

I do have a very hard time with math. I also struggled a bit with science as well. History came natural to me because my dad is a huge history buff, and I learned most of it from him. English was also pretty easy because I loved to write. Don't even get me started on math though. D:

I never get intrested in subjects especially maths, so I find it hard to concentrate in it for example: even if a method or a lesson is explained to me 5 times or more I won't understand it because I wasn't paying much attention, I only understand half of it, maths never intrests me so I find it so hard to learn it. I'm pretty bad or average in subjects except english - writting and letrature because I love writting and I love some stories and poems in literature especially if they're history related, I used to be excellent in history because I loved it so much but now they don't teach us history, I studied it until 9th grade only, I can be intrested in biology sometimes. I'm also very good at drawing if it counts.
I only plan to manage passing and not failing in exams I never get intrested in scoring high marks or choosing a career. I never feel any motivation, I tried to change that but it didn't work.

I was in the middle of the options, average I think, I managed to pass enough into higher education but I definitely was not a high achiever.

In my first few years in high school I was above average and made the honor roll several times. By the time I was a senior though I'd started to really hate the school and my grades suffered. By then I was severely depressed and stayed away from people as much as possible.

That's a bit of a more complicated answer, I think. I was a straight A student except in math (dyslexic with numbers) but if I didn't care about a class, I'd flunk it. My brother is a genius, knows everything academically, but he flunked a lot of classes in college because he couldn't be bothered to do any of the work, even though the teachers knew he could be teaching the class. We have no basis on k-12 school because we were homeschooled, but I do know they tried testing me and I did not do well on tests even if I knew the answers.

Answered yes, poor junior high and much later. Still lack sense of time

When I was in New Jersey in mid 3rd-5th grade Yes only because my teacher at the time found a way to teach me in a way I can understand I was making great strides with my grades however when my family moved south they were a few grades below what I already knew but the needs of the class out weighed the need of the student so I got board having to re-learn things I didn't apply my self and the teachers couldn't care less about keeping me at the right grade so I'm sure their tests turn our different from the results I had when I was in New Jersey :-/

We need more options. Most students are neither poor nor brilliant, but somewhere in the middle.

Even when I was struggling the most and missing massive amounts of school due to anxiety, I still got good grades. That said, I do not believe the quality of my work was worth the grades I had received and overall I believe I did quite poorly just because of how stressful it was for me.

From first through eighth grade I was in a gifted class. Then we were told that we were able to understand concepts faster and easier than other kids in our grades. But I also blame being in the gifted class as why I was never diagnosed, from the age of five to thirteen I was with the same 24 other kids every day and never really experienced any change.