Interpreting SATS results

[habberdashin]

DS isn't interested in his "scaled score". He's interested in his test results, and he wants to know "how many did I get wrong?". For that we'd need to know what the maximum number of marks were for each test. Can we work backwards from the scaled score to get this?

e.g. in maths he got a scaled score of 116 out of 120. Does this mean he scored 97% on the test? His test result was 106, so if that was 97% it implies the max number of marks was 109. So can we tell him he dropped 3 marks?

It would seem logical, but I know standardised results can include jiggery pokery so maybe not.

I think maths was made up of multiple papers so it’s more complicated than that. Tbh I find this a very uninformative reporting system! A random number with no real context, and notification that you meet expectations isn’t really telling a child anything useful

If it's KS1 ask the school. I did just to get a feel for dd1's progress from Christmas because they gave us scores then and because like your son I like tangible results.
Haven't shared with dd though. Don't want her to get hung up on not getting it all right.
Not sure for ks2.

www.satspapers.org.uk/Page.aspx?TId=5 the 2018 says papers are on here I believe and if you look through them you can see the number of marks for each paper

SATs not says

Our school gave us all the scores. Maths had 3 papers 40, 35 ,35 so a total of 110. SPAG was 2 papers 50, 20 so total 70. Reading was 50. If you look at schoolsweek.co.uk/scaled-scores you can see the raw scores against the scaled scores. 🤗

If in KS2, use this table, it will give you a couple of actual scores your DS could have got.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/723470/2018_KS2_scaled_score_conversion_tables.pdf

So, if he got 116 scaled on maths, he scored 106 on the test.

maths paper is out of 110, reading out of 50 and SPAG out of 70.

Reading was out of 50.
SPAG out of 70 (20 marks available for spelling, 50 for grammar and punctuation).
Maths out of 110 (combination of three papers)

These are the raw score/standardised score conversion tables from last year- they vary a little year on year.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmentdata/file/624645/20177KS2scaleddscoreconversionn_tables.pdf

What did his teacher say when he asked her?

this thread is really helpful as well.