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AT the present time the main criterion for the award of grants for postgraduate research seems to be the candidates' undergraduate academic record. As a preliminary attempt to measure the validity of this practice, we have examined the published class of degree gained by current Fellows of the Royal Society who received their first degree from Oxford or Cambridge. Our results are given in Tables 1 and 2. Oxford and Cambridge are listed separately, and in each case the results of those who graduated during the period 1920–39 are given as well as the results for the group as a whole. For the Oxford group the result given is always that gained in the Final Honours School; for the Cambridge group the results given in Table 1 are of the last Tripos taken irrespective of whether it was Part 1 or Part 2, while Table 2 gives the results of an earlier Tripos if one was taken. The figures in brackets represent the actual totals on which the percentages are based.
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GROSS, C., HUDSON, L. Undergraduate Academic Record of Fellows of the Royal Society. Nature 182, 787 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182787a0
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