AQE Transfer Test Dates 2022

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The AQE Transfer Test dates 2022:

Saturday 19th November 2022

Saturday 26th November 2022

Saturday 3rd December 2022

Please visit our AQE Practice Paper page to purchase practice papers.

AQE Registration Date

Registration opens on the 4th May 2022 and closes on Friday 23rd September 2022.

Online payments should be made prior to registering your child for the test. Make the payment on the AQE website payment portal.

THEN register your child for the 2022 AQE test on the AQE registration page.

Do not use the AQE past papers

Your child’s school may have mentioned this. The reason is, schools usually use AQE past papers from September in Primary 7 onwards. Teachers like these papers to be unseen so they can get a true reflection of how your child is doing.

On Target AQE Practice Papers are specially written Staged Difficulty AQE tests. There are 3 levels of difficulty.

Level 1 has 27 questions worth 30 marks, to be completed in 25 minutes.

Level 2 has 35 questions worth 40 marks, to be completed in 45 minutes.

Level 3 has 58 questions worth 64 marks to be completed in 1 hour and 10 minutes replicating real past papers.

We have undertaken an in depth analysis of all the AQE past papers from 2011 to 2021 and have created our practice papers to model the questions your child will tackle in the real tests. This means your child can get real AQE practise without using the actual past papers!

AQE 2022 Specification

To take account of the considerable disruption caused by Covid-19 to children’s education over the past two years, the AQE have made changes to the assessment in 2022.

Pupils will be given an extra 10 minutes to complete each paper. Children will have 1 hour and 10 minutes to complete the test.
The language within the English and Maths questions will be made more accessible.
The length of the English passages will be shortened where appropriate.
Certain topic areas will be omitted from the Mathematics Specification.

See our blog on the AQE 2022 Specification for more details.