The PPTC transfer test does not get the criticism of the AQE

I have followed the debate on academic selection this year with interest.

One issue puzzles me: when AQE announced that due to the pandemic the assessment result would be based on a single paper, this was greeted by a near-hysterical reaction yet PPTC has been using a single paper for selection since 2008.

One wonders why that organisation has not experienced the same level of criticism from politicians and education ‘experts’.

Helen Stewart, Larne

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