Sentence examples for Difficult academically from inspiring English sources

Knowing no English — he still prefers to answer questions in Spanish — and having no friends, the transition was difficult, academically and socially.

Sian Elvin, a student at the University of Warwick, says: "It's going to add even more stress to what will already be an extremely difficult year academically".

Exeter was academically difficult and made Harvard easy, but I hated it five hundred identical boys living two to a room.

They found that parents, regardless of their income and educational levels, stated that they wanted their children to be happy learners but that they struggled to settle for a less difficult or less academically oriented curriculum.

But it is very difficult to compare students academically before they have undertaken GCSEs.

Princeton was a great place academically but difficult socially, particularly for those of us who came from public high schools in lower socioeconomic communities.

It is difficult, remote, gently nuanced and academically meritocratic.

Williams overextended himself academically with a difficult biomedical-engineering program and played sparingly while catching up.

In his article, Prensky claimed that "the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decade of the twentieth century" had changed the way students think and process information, making it difficult for them to excel academically being exposed to outdated teaching methods.

Goorjian's problems were compounded, however, when the school emphasized basketball and built a new field house--but maintained tough entrance standards that made it difficult for Goorjian to get academically borderline student-athletes, particularly inner-city players.

Although they may be taught these concepts academically, they can be difficult to grasp without a practical application.