My son has just done a year 5 maths assessment prior to having the Parents Consultation. The way the school works (not sure if all state Primaries are the same) is that they either are in red (working below expected level), yellow (working towards expected level), green (working at expected level) or blue (exceeding expected level).
The cut off from yellow to green is 95. My son scored 97 but was put in the yellow so they know to keep an eye on him and if he needs a little help then it will be flagged, whereas if they gave him green he would slip through the net a little. So in that way it's good, but also he's extremely despondent that he's in yellow, despite me telling him grade wise he should be in green.
I can't find from Google (and didn't think to ask at the time) what the maximum score is. Does anyone know please? It was an NFER paper if that makes any difference. Also, the teacher explained that the maths paper they did covered the whole of year 5 and therefore quite a lot of maths was in the paper that they haven't yet covered. Why do they get assessed on work they haven't even covered? Just trying to help understand a few things as I'm a bit confused by it all. Thank you.