Found this on the UCAS web site: http://www.ucas.ac.uk/higher/candq/ukquals/ukquals.pdf Perhaps some colleagues in libraries of teacher training institutions can find more detailed sources? I have my doubts about UCAS's version though, because they say that Oxford & Cambridge Board only issued raw marks, but I sat mine in 1970 and definitely got numeric grades, on the 1-9, 7-9 being fails, system that other correspondents have outlined. How it brings it back, for it must have been about 31 years to the day since I was sitting in a hot classroom, doing the French oral (trick question: Quel temps fait-il aujourd-hui? If you looked at your watch, you were automatically failed). Going off at a tangent, when did colleagues stop putting the grades on their cvs? I don't even list the subjects anymore, just the number passed. Tom Roper, Head of RCVS Library and Information Service Tel (library): +44 (0)20 7222 2021 Direct line: +44 (0)20 7202 0721 Fax: +44 (0)20 7222 2004 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://www.rcvslibrary.org.uk