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Is there a good app for SATs practice?

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bookworm8500 · 05/03/2025 11:10

My daughter has suddenly 'woken up' and realises she is capable of doing well in her SATs and shouldn't coast anymore ready for high school!

Is there a good app or website for SATs practice? Like Seneca but for SATs?

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bookworm8500 · 10/03/2025 16:26

Wow, thank you so much!

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BoyMumNurse · 16/06/2026 10:11

How lovely when they suddenly decide for themselves that they want to do well, it makes such a difference when the push comes from them rather than from us nagging. For the maths side specifically, my DH built mathstutor.me (he's a software engineer, so the usual pinch of salt from me), and it has been brilliant for our own DS. It covers the full KS2 curriculum including the SATs topics, and the bit that would suit a child like yours is the free assessment on there: it shows you exactly where her gaps are, so she can put her time into the weak spots rather than redoing things she is already solid on. It is free on the standard tier (eight exercises a day, which is plenty for daily practice) and it is gamified with points and levels, so it feels more like a challenge than a chore.

One honest flag: it is maths only, so for the English and SPAG side you would want something alongside it. The Schofield and Sims 10 minute tests someone mentioned above are genuinely good. And free past papers from gov.uk, done under timed conditions in the last few weeks before May, are worth more than any app for getting her used to the actual format. BBC Bitesize is a good free backup for when she gets stuck on a particular topic and needs it explained a different way.

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