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Given how the first use of the "A,B,C,D,F" grading system wasn't implemented until the later half of the 19th century, how did early universities like Oxford and Cambridge all the way back in the 17th &16th centuries evaluate the progress of their students?

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Given how the first use of the "A,B,C,D,F" grading system wasn't implemented until the later half of the 19th century, how did early universities like Oxford and Cambridge all the way back in the 17th &16th centuries evaluate the progress of their students?	325