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To be disappointed in DD’s SATS results?

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CucumberSalads1 · 14/07/2025 22:15

I feel terrible for being disappointed, but she got 109 for maths, 109 for reading and 114 for SPAG.

She has historically always been greater depth. And I suppose I’m just concerned she’ll be streamed based on the “expected” results.

We didn’t do much prep at home at all, just looked at the odd question here and there for a week or so before.

I know these are good scores (before I get flamed)… she was just so close to greater depth and the scores aren’t that consistent with her ability.

I know I’m probably BU, but we all just want the best for our kids, don’t we? I don’t want this to hold her back in any way.

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Zonder · 14/07/2025 22:30

zeddybrek · 14/07/2025 22:24

Are these marks out of 120?
So SPAG equates to 95%, that is incredible!
But as a former teacher and parent of a year 6 child, SATs really don't matter.

Not really. They are scaled scores so 100 is the average. Ops child has done really well.

@CucumberSalads1 secondary schools shouldn't be doing any kind of streaming or setting based on SATs since they're officially supposed to be measuring the quality of teaching and learning generally in a school.

mynameiscalypso · 14/07/2025 22:26

I remember being disappointed with my own SATS results back in the day - I can’t remember what they were but I expect they were similar (good but not exceptional). If it makes you feel any better, I have had a stellar academic career since. It was one of the things that made me realise that you can only coast so much and sometimes you actually need to do homework/revision.

zeddybrek · 14/07/2025 22:24

Are these marks out of 120?
So SPAG equates to 95%, that is incredible!
But as a former teacher and parent of a year 6 child, SATs really don't matter.

Catwoman8 · 14/07/2025 22:23

They are good scores, what would you have been satisfied with?

Kreepture · 14/07/2025 22:22

good grief, of course you're being unreasonable.

No-one gives a fuck about SAT's scores, and nor should you.

Fatsnowflake · 14/07/2025 22:21

My daughter got similar scores and she got 7 grade 9s and 3 8s at GCSE and is on track for 4 A*s at A Level. Honestly- those scores are great.

thismummydrinksgin · 14/07/2025 22:19

I can guarantee it will make absolutely no difference. With those amazing scores she is certain to be in set 1, if that’s the way her secondary school streams, and the rest is history. No one will look at them again.