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This examination project focuses on the pupils and teachers experience of written assessments and grades. To highlight the significance of assessments and grades we will present the background to the development of the current educational view of knowledge, assessment and marking models. Today?s current laws and policies are described as is a proposal for a future law and grading scheme.The project is based on literature we have read and the empirical material is derived from interviews with eight students and two teachers. Four of the students are eleven years old, the other four are between seventeen and nineteen. The teachers teach years four and five. Each sex is equally represented. The interview questions are based on the students memories and personal development discussions in which the written assessments were presented. The results are based on interviews that have been studied and categorized. The purpose of the study is to determine if the written assessment is a help, or otherwise, for the individual student. Furthermore, it reflects on similarities and differences between girls and boys and examines students with strong and weak knowledge of their written assessment and grades. It also examines the teachers understanding of the student?s experience.The result indicates that the biggest difference in how the students react to the written assessment and grade is related to the sexes. Girls take the assessment more personally. All girls in this study felt anxious and nervous ahead of the assessment, while the boys did not take it personally. The results showed no big differences between students with strong and weak knowledge of the assessments. The formulation of the assessment is a critical factor for the student. An informative assessment gives the student more information and helps to improve their academic result and leads to a satisfactory summary and conclusion of the assessment. All students expressed a positive attitude to written assessments and grades. All sources, including the students and teachers, think that a new seven point scale would be a fairer grading structure leading to a fairer grading system overall.