Which of these changes were introduced by the Education Act / Butler Act of 1944? (Select the listed change that is accurate)

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The big change the Butler Act brought was making secondary education free and available to all, funded by the state. After its introduction, every child could expect to receive secondary schooling without a tuition charge, and the system was reorganized around a transition from primary to secondary education at about age 11, with the 11-plus exam used to place students into different types of secondary schools (grammar, secondary modern, or technical). This move towards universal, state-funded secondary education was the landmark reform.

The other options don’t capture the main impact. New public examinations weren’t the central novelty of the act, primary education for all had already been established in various forms before, and while the act did formalize a division between primary and secondary at the transition point, the defining change highlighted by the act was universal, free secondary education.