In article , Jon Crowcroft
writes
Well, I'd be surprised if royal holloway and bedford new college
managed to be terribly different from Imperial or UCL or QMC or Kings
and n all those, you need to pass exams each year, just like Cambridge or
many other UK unviersities- there's no points system nor was there any between
1981 and 2001 when i was teaching at UCL (and examining occasionally at
Imperial).

They had a points system at the time I'm talking abut - 1973.

taking "time off for long weekends" was something
I recall a LOT of students doing in Cambridge in the 1970s, but not in
NatSci:-)

Our experiences differ, then. Remember, no cars (unaffordable as well as
not allowed) and useful trains to London about once every 2 hours with
the famous LS/KX shuffle [you had to know which to head for to get the
next train] meant that people stayed put.

The A level grades for Imperial and UCL are almost indistinguishable from those
for Cambridge university for many science subjects btw (CS&Physics for
example

I'm sure they are (not so sure how this is relevant to the current
discussion, though).

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