Year 9 maths sats - any teachers about to advise me please

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My son is revising for his year 9 maths sats - he did a test paper today and used a calculator - are they allowed to use calculators for sats this seemed to defeat the object to me.

Year 9 sats don't exist any more. Your school might be using sats-style papers and calling them sats, but they're still internal tests so the school will set its own rules.

There is a calculator test and a non-calculator test. I think this is true for GCSEs as well.

There's a calculator paper, non calculator paper and a mental test, just like the KS2 SATs.

The government scrapped the KS3 SATs but still require schools to report levels for each child at the end of Y9. The best way to get these levels is through SATs papers, so we pretty much still do them same as before, the only difference is that we have to mark them ourselves.

Am reviving this thread because my Y9 dd is taking these papers at the moment.
She has taken the first test and told me that although the front of the paper states that the test time is 1.5 hours, they were only given an hour. She would like a chance to complete the paper since she didn't finish it.
I am a bit concerned about how teachers would take this into account when marking the papers as this is going to make her KS3 level for Maths very low. Would this also affect predictions for GCSE and setting arrangements for KS4 as well?
We haven't received any information from the school about what these tests are for so am thinking that I need to check with the Maths dept.
Any suggestions about how to ask the right questions would be appreciated.

What you've asked already makes sense.
Mine sat tests so that they would get a taste of what a formal exam feels like. It also gave evidence in borderline cases about which science or math group to go into.

year 9 SATS tests no longer exist. Some schools still use old papers to assess - I think they are a really good indicator of where students are and prepare them for formal GCSE exams. Non Calculator paper, calculator paper plus mental maths test. ALL past SATS papers are 1 hour. If a school is giving a test of 1.5 hours then it is probably a school created version of the SATS papers rather than an actual past paper. Useful link: www.emaths.co.uk/index.php?option=com_zoo&view=category&layout=category&Itemid=505

my year 9 son has been doing old gcse maths papers .