I deliberately failed my eleven plus. We lived across the road from a junior and senior school but it was the Birmingham New Road and my parents who both worked didn't fancy me crossing it. So for six years I had to walk a mile and back four times a day in all weather's.
If I had passed my eleven plus I would have gone to Bilston Grammar which was two bus rides and a walk away.
So I deliberately failed it and walked across the road every day instead.
I think I ended up in the headmasters office every morning.lol.
I once won ten shillings from my classmates by betting them I could get the geography teacher to eat dog biscuits.