Year 7 Maths and English Test Papers

2008 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Booklet (Making Cartoons)

A Year 7 English reading booklet containing three texts for comprehension assessment. The main text is The Eagle's Shadow, a narrative about a boy named Miguel on a forest trek in the Philippines. This is followed by The Eagle, a short poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Animals of the Rainforest, an informational text with a table describing Philippine eagles, hornbills, macaque monkeys, and king cobras, including their appearance, habitat, diet, and other facts.

2008 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Answer Booklet (Journey into the Rainforest)

This Year 7 English reading test answer booklet assesses comprehension across three texts: The Eagle's Shadow, a narrative fiction about a boy named Miguel facing his fear in the rainforest; The Eagle, a poem by Tennyson; and two non-fiction texts, Rainforests (with map and information about global rainforest locations) and Animals of the Rainforest (a table with facts about rainforest species). Questions test literal comprehension, inference, language analysis, and understanding of text features and purposes.

Questions: 31

2007 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Booklet (Flying High)

This reading booklet contains three texts about circus skills and performances. Circus for Young People is an informational leaflet describing courses in acrobatics, juggling, static trapeze, and flying trapeze. The Triple Somersault is a labeled diagram explaining the steps of performing this complex trapeze trick. The Catch is a narrative story about twelve-year-old Bella Fratelli, who gets her chance to perform with her family's flying trapeze act when her mother is injured.

2007 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Answer Booklet

This is a reading answer booklet that assesses comprehension skills through three texts about circus performance. Part 1 contains questions about Circus for Young People, an informational text about learning circus skills including trapeze, acrobatics, and juggling. Part 2 focuses on The Triple Somersault, a diagram showing the stages of performing this aerial move, and The Catch, a narrative story about a circus family preparing for a performance after an injury. Questions test retrieval, inference, vocabulary understanding, and analysis of text features and purpose.

Questions: 30

2006 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Booklet (Making Cartoons)

This Year 7 English reading assessment booklet contains four texts about cartoons and animation. It includes The Cartoonist, a fiction extract by Betsy Byars about a boy named Alfie who draws comic strips in his attic, Moving Pictures, an informational text explaining how animation works including storyboards and soundtracks, Some highlights from the history of animation, a timeline showing key developments from the 1880s to 2001, and Animators Required, four job advertisements seeking animators with various skills and experience levels.

2006 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Answer Booklet

This is a Year 7 English Reading answer booklet from 2006 (Levels 3-4) based on the theme Making Cartoons. It contains three text sources: The Cartoonist (a narrative story about a boy named Alfie drawing cartoon strips), Moving pictures (an informational text explaining animation techniques including storyboards and soundtracks), and Some highlights from the history of animation (a timeline text covering animation milestones from 1909-1995) plus Animators required (job advertisement texts). Questions test literal comprehension, sequencing, inference, text structure identification, and understanding of presentational features.

Questions: 27

2005 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Booklet (What lies beneath your Feet?)

This Year 7 English reading booklet contains two texts about underground structures. Going Underground (pages 3-9) is a non-fiction article explaining different types of tunnels, pipes, and underground systems, including small cables, water mains and sewers, and underground railways in cities like London, Delhi, and Moscow. Down the Mine (pages 10-14) is an autobiographical extract by Homer Hickman describing his first visit to a coal mine in 1950s West Virginia with his father.

2005 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Answer Booklet

This is a Year 7 English Reading Answer Booklet from the 2005 SATs (Levels 3-4). Students answer 30 questions based on two texts: What Lies Beneath Your Feet, an informational text about underground tunnels, pipes, mines, and subway systems, and Down the Mine, a personal recount by Homer Hickman about his first visit to a coal mine. Questions assess literal comprehension, inference, language analysis, text structure understanding, and retrieval skills.

Questions: 30

2004 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Booklet (Stranger than Fiction?)

This reading booklet contains informational texts about the Bermuda Triangle. It includes The lucky escape of the Good News, describing a 1966 tug-boat's encounter with strange fog; Flight 19 is in trouble, recounting the 1945 disappearance of five planes; A natural explanation, presenting scientific reasons for disappearances including storms, waterspouts, fog and currents; and What really happened?, inviting readers to consider possible explanations.

2004 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Answer Booklet

This is a reading answer booklet assessing comprehension skills through questions about texts on the Bermuda Triangle. Students read several texts including The Bermuda Triangle (overview of mysterious disappearances), The lucky escape of the Good News (a recount of a ship's experience in strange fog), Flight 19 is in trouble (the story of missing aircraft), and A natural explanation (scientific explanations for the phenomena). Questions test retrieval, inference, language analysis, sequencing, and personal response skills.

Questions: 28

2003 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Booklet (It's a Dog's Life)

This reading booklet contains three texts about dogs for Year 7 English assessment. 'The Monster of the Common' is a fictional narrative about a family dog named Joker who transforms into an aggressive animal when encountering woolly dogs. 'Canine Communication' is an informational text explaining how dogs use body language, with a detailed table showing physical signals for different moods. 'Strange but true...' is a brief article about a Japanese device that claims to translate dog barks. A glossary of key terms is included.

2003 Year 7 SATs Paper English Reading Answer Booklet

This is a reading answer booklet testing comprehension skills through two texts: The Monster of the Common, a narrative story about children and their dog Joker who changes behavior, and Canine Communication, an informational article about dog body language and the Bow-lingual translation device. Questions assess literal understanding, inference, language analysis, character perspective, and information retrieval from both fiction and non-fiction texts.

Questions: 27