SATS SPAG test is online.....!

[Janefromdowntheroad]

question 2 has me confused

[mrz]

reasonably brightor exceptional? not the same thing fish

[mrz]

The texts from the reading test have been analysed for "readability" level/age

[CrotchetQuaverMinim]

Were the reading tests written specially for SATs or are they extracts from something? I didn't see author attributions when I had a quick look last night, but it could well have been at the beginning or end of the whole paper, and I can't get the link easily now.

[exLtEveDallas]

Third-party content
Wild Ride extract from ‘The Last Leopard’, by Lauren St John. Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 2009.
The Way of the Dodo adapted from an article in the Evening Standard by Ben Gilliland.
Illustrations: dodo at top of page 10, Copyright © 2015 The Royal Society. Dodo image at the bottom of page 11, obtained from Wikipedia and reproduced under Creative Commons license. Image of Mauritius island (89122759) Sapsiwai/shutterstock.com.

[exLtEveDallas]

Sorry, that was in answer to Crochet, I pasted before I wrote.

Well, having a look at that reading test/paper I'm not surprised at DDs meltdown. There were a number of words there that she wouldn't have come across before and wouldn't necessarily understand the meaning of. Plus I can see exactly why she will have got bogged down in the explanations.

I am very glad that is all over.

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

I think you've missed something.

For question 3, the question is immediately above the statement. It says 'Circle the object in the sentence below.

For 5 it says, 'Tick the option that must end with a question mark.

[BoGrainger]

What they need to do is specified next to the question number

[MrsKCastle]

The questions should be just above the sentences, highlighted in an orange line.

Question 3 is 'circle the object' and q5 is tick the sentence that needs a question mark.

[Dolly80]

I can't see any questions (am using the link above and looking on my phone)

[multivac]

Fish
I don't think I'm the one misreading. Only on Mumsnet could a poster seriously consider that anyone might have put that test in front of six-year-olds.

[PatriciaHolm]

Ah, That explains why DD recognised the first one - she's read The Last Leopard, albeit a while ago. I thought it might have be from one of that series. I would have thought that wasn't a ridiculously hard book for yr6s to have read?

The SPAG gives me brain ache though! DD wasn't too concerned about any of it fortunately.

[CrotchetQuaverMinim]

Thanks. I am not surprised it was Lauren St John. I know a lot of primary pupils have read the books.

It was The Lost Queen one that sounded made up to me, words and descriptions deliberately inserted for testing purposes rather than sounding natural to my ear. But maybe I'm being unfair on the author.

[MariaSklodowska]

What a silly little test.

[SurvivalGuide]

Can someone clarify for me how much help the school could give DC on these tests? I assumed they were sat in strict test conditions like GCSEs but DD said the teachers were walking around in her tests saying things like "hmm, take a look at number 3 again". Is that acceptable? I was surprised to hear that!

[SurvivalGuide]

I'm talking about the KS2 tests for year 6 in a state primary by the way!

[Mandzi34]

SurvivalGuide - the teachers can't give an answer to a child but they are allowed to ask them to re look at a question and read it aloud to them etc.

[SurvivalGuide]

Thanks. It sounds like that is all they were doing!

[CrotchetQuaverMinim]

Seriously? Wow, I can see how that would be open to misuse - tone of voice can carry so much information.

[mrz]

You aren't allowed to suggest they look at a question again

[mrz]

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[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

Asking a child to look at a question again has always been against the rules hasn't it?

You can read a question out, but that's it.