Hello , I ' m sorry you ' ve had a hard time at school . Many thoughts had occurred to me while reading your post and below are the breakdowns 1 Like many other comments , it could be that you are in the wrong field , something that doesn ' t really speak to you or your abilities . I had a friend that had great grades in high school but she got kicked out of her first year uni because she failed almost all of her classes . Reason was because she hated her major . Then she went back to community college to make up a few courses and went back to uni doing something she really wanted and she excelled at it . So if that ' s the case with you , really spend sometime and figure out what you enjoy doing and what topics makes you feel motivated and want to try hard . It could also be that the field you are currently in is something that you really want to do . Understand that failure doesn ' t mean that you can ' t succeed it . There ' s a saying that says you succeed by failing . Why you might ask ? Because it ' s only through failure that we learn the most and makes us better for the future . 2 Aside from the top , it could also reflect that you might have had a lot of external stressors in your life , aside from school . So those external stressors are taking your mental resources away from your studies . If this is the case , your school has counselling services that are free and great . You should seek that out . 3 If the above 2 doesn ' t resonate with you still , then perhaps you are just at a point in your life where you are not ready to go back to school yet . Perhaps there are other interests , like traveling , that you want to do more . There ' s nothing wrong with not wanting to go to school at a certain point in your life . Do what makes you happy and makes you feel whole , so long they are healthy for you and others . Regardless of what the reason might be , don ' t stress . Your grades really isn ' t everything . No one in the employment world will ever ask you what your grades were . They only see your work experiences and what you majored in . It ' s how you are as a person that others care . I know it ' s hard to see that right now because students are solely judged by their grades but that ' s only a fragment of your life . It doesn ' t define it at all . Plus there are a lot of very successful people that were school dropouts or failed courses , like Bill Gates , Albert Einstein and lots of others if you google successful people that dropped out of school . Remember , this is just a part of your life story , will not define anything , especially if you don ' t let it define who you are as a person . In addition , everyone are good in different things .