11+

I was the only one in my class to pass the eleven-plus at Finsbury Road, but I didn't want to go to the grammar school because all my mates wouldn't be going, and because of the price of the uniform, which was too much for my Mum to afford. So I went to Fawcett, opposite St Peter's Church with my friends, I got a good education there and had no regrets at not going to the grammar school.
Backstreet Brighton

I sat my exams and passed for a Grammar School education at Varndean School for girls, but due to the fact that you had to wear a uniform there my mother told me that I could not go, because she could not afford to buy one. I had to settle for a Secondary School education at Brighton Intermediate School for girls in York Place."
Barbara Chapman - Boxing Day Baby

I could not wait to get out to work. I had to pass a special test, called the Industrial Examination, to enable me to leave school. I did pass it, so the headmaster called me into his study and said "Well John, would you like to be a trainee teacher?" So I said "Oh for God's sake no." "Well why's that?" "Oh, I could never stand in front of a class and look at those faces all day." So he said "I know what you want to do, you want to go on the railways, where your mates are," and he was right.
John Langley - Always a Layman

Unfortunately my education stopped when I was 14, and I forgot it all, If only my Dad had let me carry on schooling and I had gone to the Grammar School and, who knows, from there perhaps to Univ­ersity, as some of the boys I went to school with did, my life would have been totally different.
Bert Healey - Hard Times and Easy Terms