Help! DD’s SATS paper today !

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Can’t believe what’s happened. DD’s best SATS paper today, SPAG.
She’s told me she was checking through answers at end in the last few minutes.... and realised only then that she had missed out 2 pages of questions!!! She must have turned over 2 pages together! How can that even happen! Argh! She managed to answer one of the missed questions before the teacher told them to stop writing! She is really upset but couldn’t say anything at the time.
I am so so gutted for her that it has happened in the real thing. 😞
Question is to any teachers out there, is there ANYTHING she can do?? I am going to go in with her to tell the teacher what happened (she is so worried she will be cross with her)
Help and advise please, wise SATs Mumsnetters 😢😢

Well, there are only about 6 questions on a double page. It's out of 70 (20 marks from the spelling) and last year you only needed half marks to get 100, so if she did fine on the rest of the pages she will still pass.

It's just Y6 SATs! You are over-reacting.

There are only 4 questions on 2 pages so if she answered one she’ll only be 3 marks down and out of 50 marks so she should be ok.
There won’t be anything she can do now as the papers will all be sealed away and most will have been picked up by the external markets already.
3 marks is unlikely to make a difference to getting age related if she is fairly secure. Was she aiming for greater depth?

No one should be cross, she shouldn't worry about that. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done now. The papers have to be put into a sealed envelope after each test. They cannot be reopened.
If she scored well on the other questions and the spellings she will still get expected. Last year a score of 36/70 was needed. If 2 pages were missed you're probably looking at 4/5 marks.
Look on the bright side, she will probably never make this mistake again. I did it on my Chemistry A Level and I still remember that feeling of panic.

I’m not a teacher, but I am a parent of a year 6 dd. So she had her first SATS paper today too.
All I can say is, and don’t shoot me down for this, I mean it in the best possible way...this is not a total disaster. I feel for your dd, I really do. She clearly takes pride in her work and feels she has let you and her teacher down. In this situation I would be dishing out plenty of cuddles and reassurance. When she’s sitting in her dream job/ uni interview, NO ONE will be asking her for her SATS results. I’m sure she will be great in all the others...and will check the pages carefully next time

Unfortunately I don't think there is anything you can do. Give her a big hug, tell her it's fine, we all do silly things in exams * but if you are going to to do daft things in exams then SATS are the best place to do them in because in the real wide world they don't matter too much . She will be ok, tomorrow is another day etc etc....

• so, why didn't I realise in my AL geography exam that I was the only person in the room who had the entire map open on the desk leaving no room for the answer paper , unlike everyone else who was concentrating on the small area of the map the question was actually about.............

I wouldn't worry at all - it'll make no difference to you DD other than that she will probably never make the same mistake again in an exam that actually matters!

yes annie987, she was on track for greater depth 🙁

It is not a problem. You don't actually need that many marks to get a 100 and if it is her best subject she may still get greater depth with the missed questions. Do not panic.

Far better to make this mistake now than in 5 years time on a GCSE.

Give her a hug and tell her these things happen and it's not the end of the world.

Goodness! Poor child being so stressed at primary age over exams!

Tell her it happens to the best of us, that you care about her effort and will in your mind increase her mark by the ‘missed’ percentage anyway. And what pp said, that we learn from exam technique mistakes and this is a good time to learn. And don’t dwell, you will make it worse.

i am a year 6 parent.. Doesn't sound like my son has done well... His head either is in it or not.. I just said well its done now.. Forget about it another one tomorrow then forget about that.

I have been telling my son that these are good practise for GCSE's in that he will learn what he finds difficult in exams and then can use that for exams that will affect his life.

Big cuddle and lots of distraction.

It happens more often than you'd think. There isn't anything you can do about it now.

Take comfort that she'll never make that mistake again and she'll remember it when she takes exams that really do matter.

Another perspective... given that secondary schools seem to use SATS results to predict individual children's GCSE results, it seems like actually a good idea to under-perform in SATS, so that you're not told that you're below expected progress all the way through secondary school.

Oh Christ these exams mean nothing really.

Tell her not to worry

There's nothing that can be done. The papers are put into sealed bags straight after the exam and have probably already been collected.
As other posters have said, it's a lesson learned.

Am I the only parent who told my DD that if she walked into the room, filled in her name and answered just one question, I would be utterly proud of her?

She's 10 years old. Or maybe 11. Does it really matter if your DD gets greater depth? What does that even mean? 'Managed to answer a few more questions than the rest of the kids'.

Do you know how many adults have "Scored Greater Depth on KS2 SATs" on their CVs? None. I reckon there are a fair few adults in therapy because they were pushed to succeed from a very young age though, and I bet they mention SATs.

My Ds was mainly worried about been silent for an hour . He received praise for achieving that . However he is stressed he has to do it again tomorrow

Sats really really do not mean anything for the child. They are just a means of the school proving how much progress their students make. It matters not a jot to the student.

I understand why your DD doesn't want to feel like she has let her teachers down. But I strongly believe they have let her down, if they have made her feel such pressure. In year fricking 6.

Secondary schools have no interest in sats results. Most will set their own tests at the beginning of year to gauge the students levels.

It's not a bad thing to have learned to always check you have understood the task in front of you, and turned all the pages etc. But her results do not matter and aren't a predictor of future success or happiness.

Rant over.

Nothing you can do as papers are sealed and collected. Tell her it really doesn't matter! She'll have missed a maximum of 6 marks out of 70 won't make much of a difference!

I say this as a year 6 teacher... tell her not to worry, it's no big deal and definitely no need to go in with her. As others have said the teachers don't even get a look, they go straight in an envelope and taken away.

The SATs results don't determine what her teacher will assess her as so if the teacher says she's greater depth that's what she'll be assessed as, whether the tests back that up or not.

Far too much pressure put on these poor children.

They really don't matter - don't give them another thought.

I am a school governor

Starlight2345 what an achievement. An hour is a long time. DD2 is allowed to take a mascot with her to each exam. She takes Brownie the horse (so called because he has brown fur). I made the mistake of buying into it, and asking if Brownie was nervous about the SATs. She narrowed her eyes and said "Brownie isn't allowed to take them, and hasn't been practicing, mostly because he isn't real ".

@lougle she sounds amazing 😁

SPaG results are not used to predict GCSE results or generate target grades (only reading and maths scores are used) so it won’t affect her in secondary. Poor girl, getting so stressed.