yeah i guess so^^, but it's hard sometimes, because orthers will get better marks for example in the "Zentrale Klassenarbeiten" cuase it's easier for them (our teacher only give us "ganze Noten")

i so know how you feel...
whenever i would do soomething, that would get me a perfect grade(7), my humanities teacher would mark it harshly and give me soem bad mark(5)... in the end, he had me go so far, id stay up all night for 5 days, type the essay and then give it for him to test... he said, if he would close an eye, it would be a 5 and then when i finally turned it in, he called me to him during lunch and told me, i got a 6+, that was really close to a 7 and he told me, he had spent hours looking for something about it, he would blame me for and couldnt find anything and he gave it then to the principal to read, as is was so good. later i found out, if actually was a 7... i was so happy...
now i get only th best grades in humanities.
i guess thats soemthiung your teacher tries to do with you....

I see, my English time seems to be better than some others here.
My marks in English haven't really changed, during the 5 years in my school because i had good teachers all the time lol^^
The best i had in some English tests (1,0) and our special English test in class 9 i was some of the best in our class.
Some years later my marks had been nearly the same, and i did my "Realschulabschluss" in English with mark 2,6.

All the time i hadn't big problems with English and i think it's a lot of fun ;-)

Oh, I can just dream of such marks in the subject English. Okay, it's also because of the teacher, I just don't reach a 5 in the term report although I really try it. ^^
(note: swiss marks! xD)

But I really like English. ^_____^

Do you know any english speaking people (from the U.S., Canada and so on?)

@taipan
how is the grading system there like?
we have a system from 1-7, 7 being the best

well i know a bunch of people from the states, like i already said... and some of my teachers are canadien, then two of the teachers at our school are from new zealand, and a couple from GB, but thats it

EXcuse me, but about what are we talkin?

i dunno, taipan asked if anyone knows anyone englishpseaking ;]

a people that i know?

yeah, people u know personnaly

OH, yes...my cousins live in Canada...they are great!!...and the friend of my dad lives in da UK(england)...