Transfer tests should be cancelled, urges mental health champion
AQE is to hold a single transfer test in late February
Professor Siobhán O'Neill
GRAMMAR school entrance exams due to take place later in the year must be scrapped, it has been urged.
Mental Health Champion Siobhán O'Neill said all tests for 2021 and 2022 admissions should be cancelled.
Prof O'Neill said there was a need to minimise mental health risks and prioritise children's rights above all other concerns.
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Rather than sit three papers, with the best two scores counting to allow for an 'off day', children will now take just one.