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The article presents the results of a research project conducted among first year students of pedagogics. It aim was to explore education history of current students, with an attempt of recognition of their possible school failures, as well as an effort to outline the effect of those failures on participants` lives, especially on the decision concerning the choice of their academic path. The presented narration is situated in a trend of the author`s biographical research, aiming at the determination of prospective difficulties and failures faced by students.