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Old 26-07-04, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by HelenM
Sorry to come back and out uber-pedant you (actually, I'm lying, I do so with immense glee ) , but in most universities it's actually not. A Double First is (as I understand it) an Oxbridge term covering those students who achieve a first class result in both their first and final years. So the highest result you can achieve is a First.

Yours smugly ,
H

Check about half way down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Bachelor's_degree_classification#Degree_cl assification
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