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| P7 pupils due to get post-primary school placement letters | P7 pupils due to get post-primary school placement letters |
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| Thousands of primary seven pupils in NI are due to receive letters confirming which post-primary school they will transfer to in September. | Thousands of primary seven pupils in NI are due to receive letters confirming which post-primary school they will transfer to in September. |
| The various education boards have said the vast majority of pupils will be allocated their first choice schools. | |
| Those can be both grammar and secondary schools. | |
| In February, the children received the results of unofficial transfer tests for entrance to grammar schools. | In February, the children received the results of unofficial transfer tests for entrance to grammar schools. |
| The final official 11-plus test in NI was held in 2008, but grammar schools still use academic selection. | |
| It is the fifth successive year the schools have used unregulated exams. | It is the fifth successive year the schools have used unregulated exams. |
| Since then there have been two unofficial replacement systems. GL Assessment is used mostly for Catholic schools and the AQE (Association of Quality Education) sets a different exam for the other schools. | Since then there have been two unofficial replacement systems. GL Assessment is used mostly for Catholic schools and the AQE (Association of Quality Education) sets a different exam for the other schools. |