KS2 Year 6 SATs Past Papers

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KS2 English SATs Paper Structure

English Reading Paper

Length: 60 minutes

Format:

• One paper containing 3 texts (fiction, non-fiction, poetry)
• Followed by a variety of question types:
  • Multiple choice
  • Short answers
  • Long answers (inference, explanation)
• Total Marks: 50

Skills Assessed:

• Retrieval of information
• Inference and deduction
• Vocabulary in context
• Summary and explanation

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (SPaG)

Paper 1: Questions

• Length: 45 minutes
• Format: Short questions
  • Tick-boxes, sentence correction, word class identification, etc.
• Total Marks: 50

Skills Assessed:

• Sentence structure
• Grammar rules (e.g. verb tense, clauses)
• Punctuation (commas, apostrophes, colons, etc.)
• Word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)

Paper 2: Spelling

• Length: ~15 minutes
• Format:
  • 20 words dictated in the context of a sentence
  • Pupils write the missing word
• Total Marks: 20

KS2 Maths SATs Paper Structure

Paper 1: Arithmetic

• Length: 30 minutes
• Questions: Around 36
• Total Marks: 40
• Focus:
  • Core number skills
  • Mental and written methods for:
    • Addition & subtraction
    • Multiplication & division
    • Fractions, decimals, and percentages

Paper 2: Reasoning

• Length: 40 minutes
• Questions: ~20
• Total Marks: 35
• Focus:
  • Problem solving
  • Applying mathematical knowledge in context
  • Multi-step problems

Paper 3: Reasoning (2nd reasoning paper)

• Length: 40 minutes
• Format: Similar to Paper 2
• Total Marks: 35
• Slightly more complex reasoning and multi-step word problems