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Within itĪre a series of simple mental arithmetic questions. Paper 1 is called the "Arithmetic" paper, it's worth 25 marks and it's timed at roughly 20 minutes.

The KS1 Maths SATs papers consists of two separate tests. Paper 2 is a sequence of short-answer SATs questions in punctuation and grammar. Children need to spell a word in their answer booklet that's read aloud in the classroom. SPaGĬhildren take two KS1 SATs papers in SPaG - Paper 1 (spelling) and Paper 2 (questions). The questions for these texts are in the Reading Answer Booklet. Reading Booklet 2 contains three longer, more complicated texts. Children have 30 minutes to complete the KS1 SATs paper. Reading Booklet 1 contains three texts and their respective questions. KS1 SATs papers are split into tests children take in the classroom and the exam room.Įnglish Reading, Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar (SPaG or GaPS) and Maths tests are taken in the exam room (under formal, timed exam conditions).Įnglish Writing and Science are taken in an informal classroom test called a 'teacher assessment'.

Practice for the 2022 KS1 SATs using past KS1 papers. Instead, a new Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) will take place within the first six weeks of children starting reception.įollowing the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the 2020 KS1 SATs and 2021 KS1 SATs were cancelled.įor more information on the 2022 SATs or indeed the distant 2023 SATs, please see our dedicated pages. In 2017 it was decided that from the 2022-23 academic year, children will no longer take formal SATs papers in KS1. KS1 SATs in 2016, 2017, 20 were 'formal' tests although exam timings were not strictly ahered to to help limit the pressure on Year 2 children. Hence why plenty refer to these tests as "Year 2 SATs papers" or "Year 2 SATs".

KS1 SATs papers is the contracted form of "Key Stage 1 SATs papers" and children take these tests in Year 2. SATs papers KS1 are taken in English Reading, Maths and SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar). KS1 SATs papers (often called Year 2 SATs) are tests children take at the end of Year 2.
