Is your child sitting a SATs exam in year 6? You NEED to know that it’s all change for 2016! The key focus for the exams is English, plus Maths. Here’s all the key info:
Reading exam:
- One hour long
- Paper includes reading of the three texts
- Expect a variety of questions from labelling to trickier open-ended analysis
Grammar/Punctuation test:
- 45 min test: some multi-choice, others short answers
- Some questions are: identification types i.e. identify adjectives, determiners, the past progressive, adverbs etc
- Other questions ask students to construct, correct, complete or rewrite a sentence
Spelling paper:
- A 15 minute aural test where children listen to a sentence and have to write the 20 specified words into correlating sentences
Maths:
- Three papers: paper 1 Arithmetic (30 mins). Paper 2 and 3 Reasoning (40 mins each)
- Paper 1: children answer a host of questions showing their calculations. Expect addition, subtraction, decimals, fractions, percentages, long multiplication/division
- Reasoning papers cover a host of skills from data and probability to shapes and equivalents
You can see test samples here.
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