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Originally Posted by ianch99

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Originally Posted by Wittmann

If you have ever studied at a University and taken a degree examination, then if you do exceptionally well, you are awarded an honours grade.

Honours degrees are issued to anyone who is merely average or better.

I was awarded 3 distinctions for separate subjects. Hence my more modest terminology of distinctive degree. I used the expression to cover an honours degree. Maybe my expression mislead you, sorry.

So you mean a degree with distinction? Because that's an actual term while what you're saying is not.