2025 SATs Papers

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Watch our video walkthroughs of the 2025 KS2 Maths SATs papers.

Paper 1 (Arithmetic)

Paper 2 (Reasoning)

Paper 3 (Reasoning)

What Was in the 2025 KS2 SATs?

2025 KS2 English Reading Paper

The 2025 Key Stage 2 English reading paper contains three texts across different genres. A Life-changing Game presents a biographical account of Phiona Mutesi, a girl from Uganda who became an international chess champion. In the Cave is an adventure story about two boys who discover a mysterious machine-like object in a cave. Longbow Girl features historical fiction following Merry Owen, a young girl competing in an archery contest against adult men. These texts cover themes including determination, discovery, and overcoming obstacles.

The reading comprehension assessment tests various skills through questions based on the three texts. Students must demonstrate vocabulary understanding, make inferences from the content, and locate evidence within the texts to support their answers. The paper assesses comprehension abilities across biographical, adventure, and historical fiction genres. Questions require students to analyze character motivations, understand plot development, and interpret textual details from the stories about chess success, cave exploration, and archery competition.

2025 KS2 Maths Papers

The 2025 Key Stage 2 Mathematics assessment consists of three papers that test different aspects of mathematical knowledge. Paper 1 focuses on arithmetic skills, covering fundamental operations with whole numbers, decimals, fractions, place value, percentages, mixed numbers, and order of operations. Questions range from basic single-digit calculations to more complex problems involving long multiplication, long division, and percentage calculations.

Papers 2 and 3 are reasoning tests that assess mathematical problem-solving through word problems and real-world scenarios. These papers cover geometry concepts including angles, 3D shapes, coordinates, and reflections, alongside number work with prime numbers, square numbers, and multiples. Students encounter practical applications involving money calculations, time conversions, unit conversions between metric and imperial measurements, mass comparisons, volume calculations, and data interpretation through pie charts and graphs.

2025 KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Papers

The 2025 Key Stage 2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling assessment contains two papers that test different aspects of language knowledge. Paper 1 covers grammar concepts including parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and determiners. Students work with punctuation marks including commas, apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, brackets, dashes and inverted commas. The paper also tests understanding of verb forms, active and passive voice, main and subordinate clauses, relative clauses, modal verbs, word formation through prefixes and suffixes, and formal versus informal language.

Paper 2 focuses specifically on spelling skills through a structured test format. Students complete 20 fill-in-the-blank sentences where words are read aloud by the teacher. The test covers various spelling patterns and vocabulary appropriate for Year 6 students, including common words, words with complex spelling patterns, and subject-specific vocabulary. This paper assesses students' ability to apply spelling rules, phonics knowledge, and their understanding of words learned throughout primary education within meaningful sentence contexts.

About the 2025 KS2 SATs

Children in Year 6 (those aged 10-11 at the time) took their KS2 SATs tests in May 2025. The exams started on Monday 12th May 2025 and took place over four days.

The 2025 KS2 SATs were authored, produced and managed by the STA (Standards and Testing Agency) under the authorisation of the DfE (Department for Education).

KS2 SATs were taken in Maths, Reading and GaPS under formal exam conditions. These papers were marked externally whilst separate teacher assessments in Writing and Science were marked by their teachers.

Pupils with additional educational needs were offered support and/or extra exam time where available. Modified materials using braille and large print were available to eligible pupils and their teachers.

2025 was the eighth year of 'new-style' KS2 SATs tests under the new national curriculum.

To help prepare children for the 2025 KS2 SATs, children were able to download test papers from previous years free of charge. Whilst not working to the same curriculum, KS2 SATs Papers from 2015 (and before) were still useful to aid preparation.

Once marked, children's scores were converted to scaled scores:

• If a child's scaled score was below 100, they had not reached the expected standard.

• If a child's scaled score was between 100 and 109, they had reached the expected standard.

• If a child's score was 110 or over, they had exceeded the expected standard and were judged as working at greater depth.

2025 KS2 SATs Scaled Scores Expected Standard and Greater Depth

Here you will find the Key Stage 2 raw/scaled conversion tables. You may find it easier and faster to use our free scaled score converter.

2025 English Reading KS2 SATs

The raw score required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 28. Thus, the "pass mark" for pupils taking the 2025 KS2 English Reading SATs was 28/50 or 56%. In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 40/50 or 80%.

See below for the full raw marks to scaled scores conversion table:

2025 Maths KS2 SATs

The raw score required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 58. Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2025 KS2 Maths SATs was 58/110 or 52.7%. In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 95/110 or 86.4%.

See below for the full raw marks to scaled scores conversion table:

2025 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling KS2 SATs

The mark required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 35. Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2025 KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling SATs was 35/70 or 50%. In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 54/70 or 77.1%.

See below for the full raw marks to scaled scores conversion table:

Each school's KS2 SATs results were made available to their headteachers in July 2025 via the NCA tools website. Individual KS2 SATs results were fed back to parents some time after this date, normally within a child's end of year report.

Every school's KS2 SATs performance were made publicly available in December 2025 as part of the 2025 primary school league tables.

2025 KS2 SATs Exam Timetable

The 2025 Key Stage 2 SATs started on Monday 12th May 2025. The full exam timetable is below:

What Was in the 2025 KS1 SATs?

2025 KS1 English Reading Papers

The 2025 Key Stage 1 English Reading assessment contains four texts across two booklets. Slow Down, Sami! presents a narrative about a boy learning patience through plant care, while Helpful Animals covers non-fiction content about guide dogs, hearing dogs, guide horses, and ferrets that assist humans. The History of Ice Cream traces the origins of ice cream from ancient China and Rome through to modern flavours and storage methods. A New Room for William follows a fictional story about a boy adjusting to his new house and making friends with his neighbour.

Questions across the papers assess reading comprehension skills through various formats including tick boxes, short written answers, and matching tasks. The assessment tests retrieval skills for finding information directly from texts, inference abilities for understanding implied meanings, and vocabulary understanding within different contexts. Questions cover both fiction and non-fiction texts, requiring students to demonstrate comprehension across narrative and informational writing styles. The answer booklet contains seventeen questions total, with nine questions based on the non-fiction ice cream text and eight questions focusing on the fictional story about William.

2025 KS1 Maths Papers

The 2025 Key Stage 1 Mathematics papers assess fundamental mathematical skills through two distinct components. Paper 1: Arithmetic contains 25 calculation questions covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with numbers up to 100. Students work with missing numbers in equations, calculate simple fractions including halves and quarters of numbers, and perform operations with multiples of 10. All questions focus on direct calculation without contextual scenarios.

Paper 2: Reasoning tests mathematical understanding through problem-solving and applied contexts. Topics include place value, calculations within 100, fractions, money, measurement comparison, and two-step word problems requiring written working. The paper covers shape properties including symmetry and vertices, time units, and data interpretation using pictograms. Questions feature visual representations and real-world contexts to assess mathematical reasoning skills alongside computational ability.

2025 KS1 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Papers

The 2025 Key Stage 1 English grammar, punctuation and spelling assessment consists of two papers that test different aspects of language skills. Paper 1: Spelling contains 21 sentences with missing words that students must spell correctly, including verbs in different tenses, plural nouns, adjectives, and topic-specific vocabulary. Paper 2 covers grammar and punctuation through multiple choice, circling, and sentence completion tasks that assess understanding of sentence types, word classes, and punctuation rules.

The spelling component tests students' ability to spell common words across everyday contexts, while the grammar and punctuation paper examines knowledge of sentence types such as commands, questions, exclamations, and statements. Students are assessed on their understanding of punctuation marks including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, apostrophes, and commas, as well as word classes covering nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Additional areas include conjunctions, capital letters, contractions, tenses, and both suffixes and prefixes.

About the 2025 KS1 SATs

Children in Year 2 (those aged 6-7 at the time) took their KS1 SATs tests throughout May 2025.

The 2025 KS1 SATs were authored, produced and managed by the STA (Standards and Testing Agency) under the authorisation of the DfE (Department for Education).

KS1 SATs were taken in Maths, Reading and GaPS (optionally) under informal exam conditions. These papers were marked by their teachers alongside the Writing and Science teacher assessments.

As with the KS2 SATs, pupils with additional educational needs were offered support and/or extra exam time where available. Modified materials using braille and large print were available to eligible pupils and their teachers.

2025 was the second year of 'optional' KS1 SATs tests under the new national curriculum. Schools had the option to take the tests or not, with the results only being used internally.

To help prepare children for the 2025 KS1 SATs, children were able to download test papers from previous years free of charge.

Once marked, children's scores were converted to scaled scores:

• If a child's scaled score was below 100, they had not reached the expected standard.

• If a child's scaled score was between 100 and 109, they had reached the expected standard.

• If a child's score was 110 or over, they had exceeded the expected standard and were judged as working at greater depth.

2025 KS1 SATs Scaled Scores Expected Standard and Greater Depth

The scaled scores for the 2025 KS1 SATs will be published here once they are released.

Here you will find the Key Stage 1 raw/scaled conversion tables. You may find it easier and faster to use our free scaled score converter.

2025 English Reading KS1 SATs

The raw score required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 26. Thus, the "pass mark" for pupils taking the 2025 KS1 English Reading SATs was 26/40, or 65%. In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 37/40, or 92.5%.

See below for the full raw marks to scaled scores conversion table:

2025 Maths KS1 SATs

The raw score required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 36. Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2025 KS1 Maths SATs was 36/60, or 60%. In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 53/60, or 88.3%.

See below for the full raw marks to scaled scores conversion table:

2025 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling KS1 SATs

The mark required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 24. Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2025 KS1 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling SATs was 24/40, or 60%. In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 35/40, or 87.5%.

See below for pupils taking the full raw marks to scaled scores conversion table:

Each child's KS1 SATs scaled scores will be calculated via the scaled scores conversion provided by the STA. Individual KS1 SATs results will be fed back to parents some time after this date, normally within a child's end of year report.

2025 KS1 SATs Exam Timetable

The 2025 KS1 SATs took place at some point throughout May 2025.

The precise days of the tests varied from school to school as they are given a greater degree of flexibility than KS2 SATs. Thus they would have been completed at some point between 1 May 2025 and 31 May 2025.