<jwb@csse.monash.edu.au> wrote:

> The UK has a very quaint system. The universities do their selections
> *before* the A-level results are available, so they do it on the
> expected grades submitted by the schools (plus interviews to make 
> sure that only people with the correct accents get into Oxford and
> Cambridge.)   8-))}

I thought Oxbridge still sets their own entrance exams, which are
independent of A-levels? It's even possible to sit those exams before
A-levels (or at least it was when I did).

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