I'm a language orientated guy, the exams I passed in school, (English, history, biology), were ones where I could describe problems and solutions using language and not those horrible formulae type thingies, (yeuk!). In particular I was really bad at maths at school. The breakthrough for me came long after I'd left school, when I finally realised that maths was not some sort of alien technology designed to torture poor people like me, but was instead just another way to describe things. In short, it was just another language. A language that can be used to describe things that can be quite stunningly beautiful.
Check out this site to see what I mean.