Durham made me an unconditional offer, and there are now graduates who were not born when that happened.
Oxford used to make an offer of two Es to anyone who "passed the entrance exam", and people from some schools seemed to find that a lot easier than people from others.
Is the problem today just that the wrong sort are being favoured in this way?
"Predicted A-level results" are in fact a fairly poor prediction of eventual A-level results, which in turn bear no resemblance to classes of degree even in the same discipline. Like a lot of people's, my degree was not in any of my A-level subjects, anyway.
The reason to get a degree is to get a degree, as the end in itself, for the sake of the learning. And the reason to get A-levels is to get A-levels, as the end in itself, for the sake of the learning.
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