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I guess it's obvious why I am asking.

I am just too dumb for it. Like, genuinely. I only passed through HS because on final exam from literature the teacher gave me a full answer. Actually, I didn't even get that, she had to tell me "Write that down!" because I was just thinking "Why are you telling me that?"

In 1st semester I didn't pass 2 subjects. Now in 2nd one I only got to final exam of 1, which I'll have to retake and I don't feel like I'll pass it either. The only subject I was really interested in passing I didn't manage to get through due to me being late with assignments.
I am still planning to finish the last one just because I want to get rid of my Firefox tabs and I already spent 32 hours on it. The previous one took me 50 hours only for partially completing it. I estimate full completion at 65 hours, if I did that one, which I may do as well later.

Which isn't much time, actually. When I do the math based on credits, main part (time until exams) of first semester being 12 weeks, second 13 weeks, it averages out at 61h/week of work (combined lectures + seminars + expected study time and assignments).
2nd semester at 52h/week
1st semester at 71h/week.

Regardless of how I manage the exam, I won't pass to the second year.

Oh, it gets worse. I found out I was supposed to select my subjects for next year. They only sent us the email about that the day prior (2pm).
I skimmed it, OK, selection starts June 4th, went to check the UI, nothing there. Turns out, the selection deadline was on that same day, at 9pm, so I missed it by 3 hours.
Worse yet, though not applicable to me, the school also "thinks" of foreign students. In this case by notifying them only 12 hours before the deadline as well as informing them that the information in English is outdated (and that's all they did about it).

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[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 10 hours ago

First of all, I agree with the other commenters about getting assessed for a learning disability and/or ADHD. Your post is more coherent and well-written than a lot of stuff by people with degrees, and you were able to do the math to figure out if you were going to pass. If you aren't doing well in school, then it seems like there's something else going on there.

Second, you might want to check if there's a career center or something near you. If it turns out you do have a disability and you live in the US, there's a program called Vocational Rehabilitation (voc rehab for short) that can help with career assessments and such. If you're not US-based, other countries might have similar stuff; try searching for voc rehab or occupational therapy.

Third...you school only gives you seven hours to register for classes? That seems insane to me. Is that standard anywhere? Maybe your schools just suck, lol.