SATs results? What does this mean?!

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If a year 2 child achieves level three (don't have scores), what does that mean in real terms? I know it's good but I don't know what it actually relates to...I'm used to they got xx% in English or whatever
Does it just mean that they scored sufficiently past the 'pass mark' that makes a level 3
And what is a level three....
Sorry, am a bit rubbish at this!

Feenie - I didn't know that it was different in different LEAs - all my teaching friends work in the same LEA as me. That's bonkers

Feenie, do you know where I could find out what different marks equate to in the level 3 test? For instance, would 25 out of 30 be 3a, 3b or 3c? I too was told it was a pass/fail test and therefore the default was 3c.

Also, does the level 6 test taken in year 6 have similar gradings?

I'm confused - my daughter has just had KS1 results and has 2 level 4s. I've been trying to find out what this really means but it's clear there is not a single set of rules applied across the country.

She's the only level 4 the school has ever given so it's not a mistake. They acknowledge she's very bright.

It means she is a clever clogs! .

The only inconsistency acros the country is that some LEAs won't allow a level 3 to be reported unless the child is a solid level 3 - a 3B, and some will. That's it.

Level 4 at Y2 is exceptional - as you clearly know already. It's the expected level at Year 6.

There is only one pass mark in the level 3 test, and I can't remember what it is, tbh - 18 rings a bell. Any fine gradings (sublevelling) would be done within school.

Again, the level given is a teacher assessment - drawn from many, many sources of evidence. The tests are a very small part - most LEA moderators won't even look at them because they are such a narrow snapshot of what a child can do. They want more thorough evidence than that.

Legally, a school only has to report a 3 at Year 2. Some individual schools choose to report what kind of 3 it is, but ALL schools will have recorded what kind of 3 it is internally, for their own tracking.

Level 6 at Year 6 is similar - just one straight pass, level 6 or not level 6.

So if a child is a level 3 at the end of ks1 what level should they be at the end of y3?
If progress is 3 sub levels per year and presuming the child was a 3b at ks1 then they would be 4b at the end of y3, which is the average for y6.
How can this be right?

Three sublevels? No, no, no. Not in KS2.

Satisfactory progress is 1 and a half sublevels a year (2 levels over the whole of KS2, so level 4B in Y4 and 5B as a minimum by end of Y6).

Good progress is 2 sublevels a year - but children peak and plateau and don't progress in lovely neat jumps, whatever the government might like to think.

Second result if you google national curriculum levels is this.