flunking
Bombing the test
Flunking is failing, especially failing a test or course in school: I'm flunking algebra, She flunked out of college.
To flunk someone is to give them a failing grade.
The word is informal and primarily American.
Outside academics, flunking means failing to meet any standard: He flunked the interview.
Academic performance ratings
- examFormal knowledge assessment
- testEvaluative examination
- coursePlanned path forward
- classGrouping by shared traits
GPA · transcript · remedial · probation · dropout · repeating · semester · midterm
Sadness from unmet expectations
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- embarrassmentSelf-conscious unease
fear · frustration · panic · dread · humiliation · despair · pressure · self-doubt
Forced permanent removal
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
- summer schoolWarm-season academic term
- retentionContinued holding or possession
- dismissalRemoval from position
ineligibility · grounding · tutoring · intervention · counseling · withdrawal · transfer
Attack with explosives
- tankingDeclining rapidly, collapsing
- blowing itFailing when success seemed certain
- chokingBlocked airway condition
- crashingColliding with force
faceplanting · cratering · botching · screwing up · messing up · striking out · falling flat · going down
grades
Academic performance ratings
class · GPA · transcript · remedial · probation · dropout · repeating · semester · midterm · final
disappointment
Sadness from unmet expectations
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
embarrassment · fear · frustration · panic · dread · humiliation · despair · pressure · self-doubt · discouragement
expulsion
Forced permanent removal
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
- summer schoolWarm-season academic term
- retentionContinued holding or possession
dismissal · ineligibility · grounding · tutoring · intervention · counseling · withdrawal · transfer
bombing
Attack with explosives
- tankingDeclining rapidly, collapsing
- blowing itFailing when success seemed certain
- chokingBlocked airway condition
crashing · faceplanting · cratering · botching · screwing up · messing up · striking out · falling flat · going down · washing out
- academic failurefailed test, F grade, poor grades, academic probation, held back
- setbacksback to square one, stuck, losing, stumbles, hit a snag
flunkingacing
Performing flawlessly on
passing · excelling · succeeding · graduating · making the grade
flunkingpassing
Moving by or temporary
succeeding · excelling · nailing it · thriving · flourishing
failure, failing, flunk, failures, flunky, flunked, flunks, flunkeys, flunkers