DOUBLE delight lay in store for pairs of twins across Oxfordshire yesterday as they opened their results side by side.

Chupkatha and Rupkatha Priyovashini, both 18, scored top grades in the same subjects – geography, Spanish and sociology – at Oxford Spires Academy and are now preparing to wave goodbye to each other as they head off to study geography at different universities.

Rupkatha, who scored AAB and is going to the University of Sussex, said: "Everyone asks how it will feel to be apart but we have to diverge at some point.

"Geography is so broad, so I don’t know which part of it I will go into. I’m feeling good."

Elsewhere at Oxford Spires, brainy twins Lewis and Ben Thorne scored 4A*s and 2A*s and 2As respectively in maths, further maths, physics and chemistry

Lewis, from Florence Park, will be going to Cambridge University while Ben heads to Bristol.

Lewis said: "Having a twin has definitely been helpful the whole way through school. There is an element of one-upmanship."

The Klemperer household in North Oxford also collected a hatful of A*s.

Will and Katherine Klemperer, both at Magdalen College School, shared 6A*s and 2As between them and were thrilled with their results yesterday morning.

Katherine said: "We both do very different subjects, I’m the scientist in the family and he does classics and history – but we have driven each other on throughout the year."