London Banter - View Single Post - Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)

Roland Perry · April 9th 15, 01:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 08:29:35
on Thu, 9 Apr 2015, remarked:

And what with students in those days probably being from a 4yr
O-level stream, not having gap years, and almost always on a 3yr
degree course, not very many undergrads would have been over-21
anyway.

Not exactly. All Cambridge students

Not all students went to Oxbridge. Difficult to imagine, I know.

had to do the 7th term entrance exam.

As I did, but I'd been accepted already on the basis of my A-level
results, so it was only an examination to see if I could win a
scholarship/exhibition.

I think I'd also studied Latin as a prerequisite for entrance, only to
find that by the time I applied it wasn't necessary any more. Although
in retrospect I found that understanding Latin was very useful in other
ways.

But the real point was that no-one could vote before they were 21 1/2
and most not until they were nearly 22.

And despite experiencing that 2-term "gappy" part-year, after having sat
the exams, I was still not 21yrs old until the very last few weeks of my
final term.
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Roland Perry