Doubt over transfer test as more grammar schools pull out 11 plus Transfer test. Story Simon Doyle. 09 January, 2021 01:00 GRAMMAR schools are withdrawing in growing numbers from a planned transfer test next month - casting doubt that it will take place at all. As executive ministers argued yesterday about staging entrance assessments, several more schools revealed they were pulling out. The Association for Quality Education (AQE) intends to hold a single exam for P7s on February 27. The first of its three postponed papers was due to be taken today by more than 8,000 children. Amid demands to call off all tests on health grounds, the executive discussed the issue yesterday but broke up without agreement.