Why can I never score more than him?

Perhaps a bit of friendly competition is all he needed to encourage him to make more of an academic effort. In the past he might not have studdied as much as you and now he might have increased his study time. He might also be receiving outside help such as a tutor. I know that my school offers them free of charge. One other option is that he has a specific interest for the classes he was taking this past semester. You are more likely to do well in a subject that you have a genuine interest for than a subject you could care less about. Well, whatever the reason for his increased performance, I hope this does not cause any problems in your friendship. Grades are not worth losing a good friend over.

see dude any competition between frenz is a healthy competition it is east to come at top but it is very difficult to be consistently at the top ur friend has scored above u for the first tym it was bound to happen one day and it happened no body has a perfect graph in life not even sachin or amitabh or adam sandler or harry potter even

So what kind of scores are you shooting for? I would like to think that your grades are above the 70% range, but hey, the higher you go the harder it gets to improve. If you are at status quot, doing what you have always been doing then in order to get higher scores you will need to do better meaning that you will need to put more effort and work into the process. Sometimes how you get along with your teachers makes a difference. Make sure that people are not spreading rumors behind your back, maybe the teachers have a prejudice against you because of what is said behind your back. Do you have a new set of teachers? There are so many variables that would go into the reason for a lesser performance than you are expecting, and maybe your friend has just hit a peak where he is going to excel? This is not a time to shun your friend for his genius, it would be best to continue and learn from each other. Be happy for your friend and work together, he can pull you up and maybe you pulled him up, this is all good... Good Luck,

Maybe he got tired of always being behind you, so he really tried his hardest this year. This once happened to me. I had this friend since fifth grade, and each time, I would score better than her. But once I hit 7th grade, she did better than me. This kind of ruined my self-esteem, so my grades started slipping and I had a hard time keeping them above 93%. But then I realized that I had to try harder, and so I did. Now, all of my grades are above 95%.