SATs tests in late 70s/early 80s

[LizzyELane]

With my daughter about sit her SATs next week I have been thinking of the tests I sat as a school child. I'm sure they weren't called SATs and I think we were older as I think I remember sitting them in the big hall at secondary school but I may be mistaken. They were real Mensa type IQ tests e.g. which shape/number/pattern is next in sequence? Which shape is this a mirror image of? If hair is to hare, then what is root related to? Not really like the modern SATs curriculum at all? I know by about Year 9 we were all sorted into 8 groups of 'intelligence' with group 1 being the cleverest and group 8 called 'remedials' . Imagine that today!! Can anyone remember these tests and what they were called? Have tried googling but can't find anything.

I remember doing multiple-choice type tests at both primary and secondary school in the 70s. Things like deciding what came next in a sequence, stuff like that. I remember quite enjoying them as they were like puzzles. I don't remember ever being told the 'results' - nor do I remember any practice for them, they just happened out of the blue every so often, breaking up the tedium of school!

I remember doing a test like that once in Primary School, probably in the equivalent of Y6, so mid 70s. We had never seen one before and weren't told about it before. Don't remember getting the results either.

Really didn't have many tests when in Primary School. Remember we had a different teacher one day and he started off saying we would have a maths test and there was mutiny from the class, even from Miss Goody Two Shoes me

I do remember having reading tests, where we had a list of words we had to read. Used to have to go to the HT's office and sit with him and read this list and would stop once we got to a word we didn't know.