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[Phys-L] Bad physics grades are an asset?



"Burgess had originally hoped to study music at university, but the music department at the Victoria University of Manchester turned down his application because of poor grades in physics.[15]

'So instead he studied English language and literature there between 1937 and 1940, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. His thesis concerned Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and he graduated with an upper second-class honours, which he found disappointing.[16]

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Anthony Burgess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess


'When grading one of Burgess's term papers, the historian A.J.P. Taylor, wrote: "Bright ideas insufficient to conceal lack of knowledge."[17] "