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Gymnasium in Munich, Germany
The short answer: no — Albert Einstein did not fail math in school, nor did he repeat a grade because of incompetence in mathematics; persistent myths arise from shifting grading scales, selective rec...
Albert Einstein left the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich at age 15 and did not complete that school’s diploma, effectively withdrawing from the German gymnasium system in 1894 . Sources describe this as ...
did not “fail” math; his surviving 1896 Matura ( cantonal school) grades show top marks—sixes—in algebra, geometry, descriptive geometry and physics under the 6=best scale, and contemporaneous sources...