So, a DC has to pass the L5 paper to be able to pass the L6 paper; Does that mean achieving 5a?

[Iamnotminterested]

Just curious. Learnt on here that they can only pass the L6 papers IF they have passed the L5, so does this mean ANY level of a 5, or would it have to be a 5a??

That doesn't sound like what's happening though, snowball3 - I heard too much now on MN about putting L5 children in 'just to see'. Well, what will happen is that some children will scrape a level 6 (just like some Y2 children could scrape a 3c when they were really a 2 in the test only old days) and secondary teachers will quite rightly say 'there's no way they are a 6, that primary school teacher is talking bollocks.' Kim147 is right!

Doesn't help our cause, snowball - that of the fair marking, careful levelling, by the book teacher. It's what gives us a bad name.

Rant over!

I get the same from Y7 children coming back. But there is too much misuse of the level 6 test already, by the sounds of it. So it won't last long before it's gone again.

If secondaries only teach as if all children have Level 4, then funnily enough, the children will only show that they can achieve at level 4. If they actually took the TA (not SATs) results from the primaries, believed them, and started from that point, then the children might well make better progress....