PTM/PTE school skewing results?

[momsterBoo]

Can anyone advise how these test should be distributed to children at the end of Yr4?

In your school are the papers read to the children question by question? Or do the kids have to work through it independently?

Do teachers help children if the get stuck?

Our school reads the questions to the children and I feel this is manipulating the result, going by guidance on website test are meant to be taken independently. Wondering what other schools do

Anyone??

Do you mean the MTP? It’s completed by Y4 children online in June. What you are describing is probably practice and therefore no, not cheating.

Done on computer here. No practice.

Sorry @momsterBoo just noticed it was yourself.
NI primary . I specifically asked my granddaughter if they practiced as I was curious.

Your child has never practised their times tables in school?!

Of course the children practice! They will initially do paper based versions and then move onto online or app versions. Most maths online programmes have times tables practice sections, Sumdog for example. The official MTP site even has practice versions available.No one would want a child sitting the actual test without knowing how to use an unfamiliar format.

@spanieleyes she is not talking about the same test I think. It is PTE and PTM. She is not in England from a previous thread.

Apologies! I thought the letters were just mixed up☺️