23 FEBRUARY 1985, Page 19

Gifted

Sir Auberon Waugh considers his children intelligent, attractive and gifted' (Another voice, 9 February) and bemoans their failure to get into Oxford. I am also intelligent, attractive and gifted but I did not get to Oxford because my 'A' level results were not good enough. An `inar- ticulate semi-literate spotty faced' oaf from the lower class' achieved 3 or 4 A grades in his exams and got in instead.

Andrew I. W. Macdonald

37 Powerscroft Road, Lower Clapton,

Hackney, London E5