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Exact same gets to me from my grandfather used to drum it into my head since it is so commonly used. Not so much on here but when highly educated people do on TV it really drives me nuts. That isn't to say there are not both smart and educated people on here too, I know there are , and smarter than I.



It should be exactly the same in order for it to be grammatically correct. In this case the word is a modifier that stresses the identical comparison of one item with another. Alternately, one could say precisely the same in order to demonstrate the condition.

Note also that educated and smart aren't necessarily things that go hand-in-hand.