Year 5 SATs Papers
Download Year 5 optional SATs papers for free.
Download Year 5 Optional SATs Papers
Download every past Year 5 SATs paper to help prepare children for their KS2 SATs tests. Answers to every question can be found in the Marking Schemes.
Year 5 English Reading Optional SATs Papers
Download Key Stage 2 English Reading SATs practice papers for children in Year 5. 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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| 2006 | ||||||
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| Source: Standards and Testing Agency (STA) | Open Government Licence |
About these YR5 English papers
- Changes
- This reading booklet contains four texts on the theme of change and transformation. Did You Know? presents facts about dragonflies from different cultures. Dazzling Dragonflies is an informational text explaining the life-cycle of dragonflies. The Dragonfly by Libby Houston is a poem about a dragonfly nymph transforming into an adult. Carnival in Britain describes street festivals and includes an interview with carnival costume designer Carl Williams about creating costumes inspired by nature.
- Year 5 Optional 2006 English Reading Answer Booklet
- This is a Year 5 English reading answer booklet assessing comprehension skills across multiple texts with the theme Changes. Students answer questions about The Dragonfly (a poem about the life-cycle and transformation of a dragonfly nymph), Dazzling Dragonflies (an information text about dragonfly biology and behavior), Did You Know? (facts about dragonfly beliefs across cultures), and Carnival in Britain (non-fiction about Caribbean carnival traditions and costume design). Questions assess retrieval, inference, language analysis, and cross-text comparison.
- Footprints in Space
- This Year 5 Optional SAT reading booklet contains three texts for assessment. The New Explorers is a non-fiction piece about space exploration featuring astronaut Helen Sharman's account of her experiences on the Mir space station. The Boy from Far Away is a fiction story about a boy named Joe who meets Oran, a mysterious visitor with special boots, during a camping holiday. Can we live in Space? is a non-fiction text examining practical challenges of living in space. Questions assess comprehension, inference, and text analysis skills.
- Year 5 Optional 2003 English Reading Answer Booklet
- This Year 5 Optional SAT English reading answer booklet from 2003 assesses comprehension across multiple text types. Students respond to questions about The New Explorers (a non-fiction text about space exploration and Helen Sharman), The Boy from Far Away (a fiction story about two boys where one is from another world), and Can we live in Space? (an informational text about living conditions in space). Questions test literal comprehension, inference, authorial intent, text structure, and cross-text comparison skills.
| 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 YR5 GaPS papers
- Year 5 Optional 2006 English Spelling Task
- This is a Year 5 Spelling assessment from 2006 testing spelling ability through a cloze passage activity. Students must spell 20 words correctly as their teacher reads them aloud in the context of a passage about Steelpan Music and the Notting Hill Carnival. The passage describes how steel bands participate in the carnival, their evolution from walking to using floats, and the music they perform.
The 2003 Year 5 English optional SATs papers included a story task. This task was not present in the 2006 papers.
Year 5 Maths Tests
Download Key Stage 2 Maths SATs practice papers for children in Year 5. 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 YR5 Maths papers
- Year 5 Optional 2006 Mathematics Paper A
- This Year 5 Mathematics Test (Paper A) from 2006 assesses levels 3-5 without a calculator. It contains questions on number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), fractions and percentages, measurement (length, temperature, time), geometry (shapes, coordinates, symmetry, translation), data interpretation using charts and graphs, and problem-solving including money calculations and sequences.
- Year 5 Optional 2006 Mathematics Paper B
- This is a Year 5 mathematics test (Paper B, calculator allowed) covering a range of topics. Questions assess number operations (multiplication, division, place value), geometry (shape recognition, reflections, rotations, angles in triangles), fractions and percentages, measures (volume, mass, length), data interpretation using bar charts, and problem-solving including word problems about money, patterns in number grids, and algebraic thinking with variables.
- Year 5 Optional 2003 Mathematics Paper A
- This Year 5 Mathematics Test A paper from 2003 assesses levels 3-5 without calculator use. It contains questions on arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), number sequences, geometry (shapes, angles, symmetry, nets, rotations), fractions, measurements (weight, time, area), factors and multiples, data interpretation through graphs and tables, and problem-solving involving money and real-world scenarios.
- Year 5 Optional 2003 Mathematics Paper B
- This is a Year 5 Mathematics Test B from the 2003 SATs, designed for students working at levels 3-5. The paper is calculator allowed and covers a range of mathematical topics including number sequences, subtraction and division, time calculations, probability, shape properties (regular polygons and quadrilaterals), coordinates, fractions and decimals, data interpretation, measurement, perimeter, equivalent fractions, and ratio problems. Questions include both straightforward calculations and multi-step word problems requiring reasoning skills.
| 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 5 Maths Worksheets for teachers and parents to download. These aim to challenge children on a broad range of Year 5 Maths topics before they face their real end-of-year tests.
Year 5 Writing Tests
Download Key Stage 2 Writing SATs practice papers for children in Year 5. 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 YR5 Writing papers
- Improve Our Playground
- This is a Writing Test prompt booklet for a longer writing task titled Improve Our Playground. Students are asked to write a persuasive piece responding to a scenario where their school has received funding to improve the playground. The booklet includes the writing prompt, suggestions for improvements (swimming pool, playground equipment, nature area, school garden), and a planning sheet with structured sections to help students organize their ideas about proposed changes and persuasive arguments.
- The Changing Park
- This is a Year 5 Writing answer booklet from the 2006 SATs containing two tasks. The shorter writing task asks students to write descriptive text about how a park changes from winter to summer, focusing on sights, sounds and smells in each season. The booklet also includes space for a longer writing task titled 'Improve our playground'. Assessment criteria cover sentence structure, punctuation, text organisation, composition and effect, handwriting and spelling.
- Meeting Oran
- This is a Year 5 Writing Test longer task from 2003 that requires students to write a feature article about a character named Oran for a magazine. Students must use information from an interview format and clues from the reading booklet Footprints in Space to describe Oran, his planet, and his life. The task assesses the ability to write non-fiction magazine articles rather than stories.
- Joe's Boots
- This Year 5 Optional SATs Shorter Writing Task from 2003 assesses a student's ability to write instructional text. Students are asked to write an instruction leaflet for Joe's special boots under three specific headings: how to use the boots, warnings and safety information, and how to care for the boots. The task tests organizational skills and the ability to write clear, purposeful instructions in an appropriate format.
The 2003 Year 5 Writing paper included a detailed mark scheme that helped teachers accurately assess children's work.
Table of Contents
Are there SATs in Year 5?
Strictly speaking, no.
However, most schools will run a set of 'SATs-like' assessment tests for Year 5 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 5 optional SATs papers for their Year 5 tests.
What are Year 5 Optional SATs Papers?
Year 5 optional SATs papers were written and published several years ago. Two sets were published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), in 2005 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 5 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 5 Optional SATs Papers?
These Year 5 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 5 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 5 test papers published in 2005.
It's important to bear in mind that these past papers were published in 2005 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.
