Sons End of Year 7 examination scores. Are they okay?

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Hi, My son just finished his end of year 7 exams, he has improved in most subjects but dropped in some of them as well. I will be comparing his Term 2 report to his examination scores

Report: Examination:
Mathematics: 6b Target: 7c Mathematics: 5a
Science: 5b Target: 5b Science: 6b
English: 5b Target: 5a English: 4a
History: 5c/5b Target: 5a History: 5a/6c
Geography: 6c Target: 6c Geography: 5c
Computing: 5c Target: 5b Computing: 5b
French: 4c Target: 4b French: 4a
Music: 5c Target: 5b Music: 6c

I am mostly concerned about maths since the teachers had told me he is a very bright student. When he first entered Year 7, on his first maths test he achieved a 6b. In the final examination he did get 5a but was 2 marks away from 6c. But Overall is his grades good?

It's definitely aspirational for a child who got 4a to be 7c by the end of yr 7.

That's 'aspirational' spelled i-n-s-a-n-e...

I suspect these are end of KS targets, anything else just makes no sense.

That's the correct spelling pointy.

I can't believe nobody looked at that and asked wtf was going on. The other targets seem reasonable end of year 7 targets based on his sats results, so I'm not sure why the maths one would be an end of ks one. But 7 sublevels progress in 1 year is insane.

You have to feel sorry for the poor maths teacher who probably has him flagged up as not having made enough progress despite the fact that 5a is a perfectly good result based on a child that was 4a/5c at the beginning of the year.

Something isn't right here. A student who got a 4a in their SATs definitely shouldn't have a Y7 target of a 7c. It would be quite astonishing for them to genuinely have achieved a 6b in term 3, the 5a at the end of Y7 is excellent progress. Are they set for maths? I'm wondering if some data has been mis-entered somewhere and his 6b level was given with an eye on his 7c target, but his 7c target was completely wrong.

He also appears to have gone backwards in English since KS2. You need to be asking to speak to the subject teachers to try to get to the bottom of his targets and current levels because this is not normal.