Year 4 SATs Papers
Download Year 4 optional SATs papers for free.
Download Year 4 Optional SATs Papers
Download every past Year 4 SATs paper to help prepare children for their KS2 SATs tests. Answers to every question can be found in the Marking Schemes.
Year 4 English Reading Optional SATs Papers
Download Key Stage 2 English Reading SATs practice papers for children in Year 4. You'll find the reading booklet and reading answer booklet for each test below.
| Year | Reading Booklet | Reading Answer Booklet | Answers ⓘFull answers and mark schemes | Scaled Scores / Levels ⓘRaw mark to Scaled Score conversion tables | Complete ZIP File ⓘZip file with all standard resources bundled together | Premium Downloads |
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| Source: Standards and Testing Agency (STA) | Open Government Licence |
About these YR4 English papers
- Antarctic Adventures
- This reading booklet contains three informational texts about Antarctica. Antarctica provides factual information about the continent's location, weather, inhabitants, and wildlife. The Race to the South Pole recounts the 1911 expedition led by Roald Amundsen and his competition with Robert Scott to reach the South Pole first. Visiting Antarctica presents diary entries from BBC Newsround reporter Lizzie Greenwood during her three-week stay at Rothera Research Station, describing daily life and activities.
- Year 4 Optional 2006 English Reading Answer Booklet
- This Year 4 Reading answer booklet assesses comprehension skills through three texts about Antarctica. Antarctica provides factual information about the continent's geography, climate, wildlife, and research stations. The Race to the South Pole tells the historical story of Roald Amundsen's expedition and his competition with Robert Scott. Visiting Antarctica presents Lizzie Greenwood's diary entries describing her experience as a reporter at Rothera Research Station. Questions test retrieval, inference, vocabulary understanding, and response to text.
- Feet First
- This Year 4 English reading booklet contains an informational text titled Feet First, which covers topics related to running. The text explains the parts of a running shoe, describes proper warming up and cooling down techniques, provides training guidance including recommended sprint distances for different year groups, and discusses the general benefits of exercise. Students read the material to answer comprehension questions in a separate answer booklet.
- Year 4 Optional 2003 English Reading Answer Booklet B
- This is a Year 4 optional SATs reading answer booklet based on a text called Legs' Race, a story about a girl training for a race who must run to the hospital when her uncle has a heart emergency. The assessment tests literal comprehension through multiple-choice questions about plot events, as well as inference and interpretation skills through questions about character feelings, word meanings, narrative techniques, and the author's use of time as a literary device throughout the story.
- Year 4 Optional 2003 English Reading Answer Booklet A
- This is a Year 4 English Reading answer booklet from the 2003 optional SATs, designed to accompany the text Feet First. The assessment contains 11 questions testing comprehension skills including retrieval of factual information, inference, identification of text features and authorial techniques. Questions cover topics such as running shoe anatomy, warm-up techniques, exercise effects on the body, and interpreting photographs and diagrams.
- Legs Race
- This is a Year 4 English Reading Booklet from the 2003 SATs assessment. It contains a single fiction text titled Legs' Race by Dorian Haarhoff. The story follows a girl nicknamed Legs who trains for a local race but must run to the hospital to help her Uncle Udi when he has a heart attack on race morning. The narrative tests reading comprehension of character, plot, and theme.
| Year | Spelling Task | Complete ZIP File ⓘZip file with all standard resources bundled together | Premium Downloads |
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| 2006 | |||
| Source: Standards and Testing Agency (STA) | Open Government Licence |
About these YR4 GaPS papers
- Midwinter's Day
- This is a Year 4 Spelling assessment from 2006, part of the Grammar and Punctuation/Spelling (GaPS) test series. The paper consists of a cloze passage titled Midwinter's Day about scientists celebrating during Antarctic winter. Students fill in 20 numbered gaps while the teacher reads the text aloud, testing spelling accuracy across common words, homophones, and age-appropriate vocabulary including words with silent letters, vowel patterns, and common suffixes.
The 2003 Year 4 English optional SATs papers included a story task. This task was not present in the 2006 papers.
Year 4 Maths Tests
Download Key Stage 2 Maths SATs practice papers for children in Year 4. You'll find both Paper A and Paper B as well as full answers to every question.
| Year | Paper A | Paper B | Answers ⓘFull answers and mark schemes | Scaled Scores / Levels ⓘRaw mark to Scaled Score conversion tables | Complete ZIP File ⓘZip file with all standard resources bundled together | Premium Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Source: Standards and Testing Agency (STA) | Open Government Licence |
About these YR4 Maths papers
- Year 4 Optional 2006 Mathematics Paper A
- This Year 4 Mathematics paper assesses levels 2-3 without calculator use. It contains questions on arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), number sequences and patterns, measurements (length, capacity, time), geometry (shapes, angles, symmetry, 3-D solids), fractions, data interpretation from charts and tables, and word problems involving real-world contexts such as money, age comparisons, and logical reasoning.
- Year 4 Optional 2006 Mathematics Paper B
- This Year 4 Mathematics paper assesses arithmetic and problem-solving skills across 29 questions. Topics include subtraction, money calculations, time, 3-D shapes, multiplication, sequences, data interpretation from bar charts and tables, coordinates, fractions, temperature, ratio problems, lines of symmetry, measurement conversions, decimals, and division with remainders. Questions use real-world contexts involving characters named Lauren, Zak, and Jade.
- Paper A
- This mathematics test for Year 4 pupils working at Levels 2-3 contains questions covering number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), place value and ordering, fractions, measurement (length, weight, time, money), shape and symmetry (reflections, nets, properties), data handling (graphs and charts), and problem-solving tasks including word problems and reasoning.
- Paper B
- This is a Year 4 Mathematics Test (levels 3-4) assessing various mathematical skills. The paper contains questions covering number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division with remainders), fractions and decimals (comparing, converting, calculating with fractions), place value (understanding thousands, hundreds, tens, ones), measurement (time, length, mass, capacity), geometry (coordinates, direction, nets, shapes, area), data interpretation (graphs and tables), and problem-solving involving money, proportions, and multi-step calculations.
| Year | Mental Maths Answer Sheet | Mental Maths Transcript | Answers ⓘFull answers and mark schemes | Complete ZIP File ⓘZip file with all standard resources bundled together | Premium Downloads |
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| 2006 | |||||
| 2003 | |||||
| Source: Standards and Testing Agency (STA) | Open Government Licence |
For 2003 the QCA helpfully published levels information in the Maths tests so teachers could accurately assess their pupil's progress. Unfortunately, the 2006 tests did not include levels information.
We also have a number of free Year 4 Maths Worksheets for teachers and parents to download. These aim to challenge children on a broad range of Year 4 Maths topics before they face their real end-of-year tests.
Year 4 Writing Tests
Download Key Stage 2 Writing SATs practice papers for children in Year 4. You'll find both writing answer booklets below including the longer task and shorter task papers.
| Year | Writing Test (Longer Task) | Writing (Shorter Task) | Answers ⓘFull answers and mark schemes | Complete ZIP File ⓘZip file with all standard resources bundled together | Premium Downloads |
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| 2006 | |||||
| 2003 | |||||
| Source: Standards and Testing Agency (STA) | Open Government Licence |
About these YR4 Writing papers
- Day Trip To The Summer Base
- This is a Year 4 Writing Test longer task booklet from 2006. Students are asked to write a diary entry imagining they are visiting a temporary summer base in Antarctica with Lizzie Greenwood from the Rothera Research Station. The booklet includes a writing prompt with photographs and a planning sheet with sections for travel method, activities, sensory details, and feelings.
- How Fit are You?
- This Year 4 Writing Test presents a longer writing task where students must write a report for a children's newspaper. The task provides context about the British Heart Foundation's recommendation that young people take at least one hour of exercise daily, along with reference to a class survey about ways to achieve this. Students must explain how children can get their hour of exercise using the provided ideas.
- What might have happened?
- This is a shorter writing task for Year 4 pupils that provides a story prompt about a character named Legs who arrives at a race registration. The paper presents a brief narrative setup where Legs asks if she can run, then instructs pupils to imagine the answer is 'Yes' and write their own ending to the story. The prompt notes that Legs would have had to run the race after running to the hospital, providing context for pupils' creative responses.
The 2003 Year 4 Writing paper included a detailed mark scheme that helped teachers accurately assess children's work.
Table of Contents
Are there SATs in Year 4?
Strictly speaking, no.
However, most schools will run a set of 'SATs-like' assessment tests for Year 4 every May. This will take the form of a 'silent test' in their classroom and the results will be used to track their academic progress.
Some schools will use all (or part) of the Year 4 optional SATs papers for their Year 4 tests.
What are Year 4 Optional SATs Papers?
Year 4 optional SATs papers were written and published several years ago. Two sets were published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), in 2004 and 2006.
Schools could download these past papers for free or order printed copies from the QCA. Practically every school within the UK would have used these test papers over the past 20 years.
These tests closely mimic SATs tests and were written for schools to use to help monitor children's progress between Year 4 and Year 5, before KS2 SATs in Year 6.
Many schools have used these test papers in the past for KS2 SATs preparation.
Who can use Year 4 Optional SATs Papers?
These Year 4 SATs papers can be used by pupils, teachers and parents. Indeed, they are free to download for anyone that wishes to use them.
These Year 4 SATs papers are in English reading (comprehension) and maths and include full marking schemes.
Levels information (what came before scaled scores) is only available for the first set of Year 4 test papers published in 2004.
It's important to bear in mind that these past papers were published in 2004 and 2006 and that there has been a curriculum change since then. Hence, there may be a number of topics within these optional SATs papers that your child may not recognise.
