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(a) Why did Hawking try to transfer schools? Why was he unsuccessful?​

Answer 1

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My guess is that it was a combination of a school that valued more than raw academic talent, a young boy who was incredibly bright but who did not see the need to work particularly hard, and a certain amount of self-deprecation from an older Professor Hawking. He was looking back 50 years after the fact, and I suspect he remembers only the bad marks and is ignoring some exceptional ones.