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Guidance: How to try out the 2025 reception baseline assessment services

Guidance for schools trying out the new assessment services for the 2025 reception baseline assessment (RBA).

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Guidance: How to try out the 2025 reception baseline assessment service

Guidance for schools trying out the new assessment services for the 2025 reception baseline assessment (RBA).

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Guidance: Multiplication tables check: IT guidance

This guidance supports IT staff who manage the school's ICT network in preparation for check administration.

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Promotional material: Multiplication tables check: information for parents

Information leaflet for parents about the multiplication tables check taking place in June 2025.

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Guidance: How to try out the 2025 reception baseline assessment services

Guidance for schools trying out the new assessment services for the 2025 reception baseline assessment (RBA).

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Guidance: National curriculum assessments: monitoring and moderation agreements

Guidance for local authorities, academies and independent schools on implementing monitoring and moderation agreements for the national curriculum assessments.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: access arrangements

Guidance for schools about access arrangements available for pupils participating in 2025 key stage 2 (KS2) national curriculum tests (commonly called SATs).

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: varying the test timetable

Information about how headteachers, or someone with delegated authority, can reschedule the key stage 2 (KS2) tests.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 tests: access arrangements

Guidance for schools about access arrangements available for pupils participating in the optional key stage 1 (KS1) national curriculum tests in 2025.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 tests guidance

Guidance about how schools can access and use the optional end of key stage 1 (KS1) national curriculum tests.

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Guidance: Primary assessments: future dates

This page summarises future assessment dates in primary schools, to assist schools with their forward planning.

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Guidance: Multiplication tables check: validity framework

Validity framework for the multiplication tables check (MTC).

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Guidance: National curriculum test development handbook

Information on the design, development and delivery of the optional key stage 1 (KS1) and statutory key stage 2 (KS2) national curriculum tests.

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Statutory guidance: Key stage 2: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

Statutory guidance for assessing and reporting the national curriculum at key stage 2 (KS2).

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Statutory guidance: Phonics screening check: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)

Statutory guidance for assessing and reporting the phonics screening check at key stage 1 (KS1).

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Guidance: National curriculum assessments: join our expert review panels

How to participate in review panels for developing the key stage 1 (KS1) and key stage 2 (KS2) tests, phonics screening check and reception baseline assessment (RBA).

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Statutory guidance: Key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance

Guidance for schools and local authorities involved in the administration and moderation of statutory key stage 2 (KS2) teacher assessment.

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Statutory guidance: Key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance

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Guidance for schools and local authorities involved in the administration and moderation of statutory key stage 2 (KS2) teacher assessment.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 teacher assessment guidance

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Guidance for schools and local authorities involved in the administration and internal moderation of optional key stage 1 (KS1) teacher assessment.

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Guidance: National curriculum assessments: join our expert review panels

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How to participate in review panels for developing the key stage 1 (KS1) and key stage 2 (KS2) tests, phonics screening check and reception baseline assessment (RBA).

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Promotional material: Reception baseline assessment: information for parents

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Information leaflet for parents about the reception baseline assessment.

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Guidance: Teacher assessment moderation: standardisation and training process

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Information for local authorities on training and standardisation for moderators of key stages 2 (KS2) English writing.

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Corporate report: Standards and Testing Agency: annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024

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Annual report and accounts for the Standards and Testing Agency (STA).

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: applying for a review of pupils’ test results

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Information about applying for a review of marking for key stage 2 national curriculum tests, sometimes referred to as SATs.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: 2024 scaled scores

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Scaled score conversion tables for schools and local authorities to use for the 2024 national curriculum tests.

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Guidance: Understanding scaled scores at key stage 2

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Information for schools and local authorities about scaled scores and the expected standard for the key stage 2 national curriculum tests.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: 2024 scaled scores

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Scaled score conversion tables for schools and local authorities to use for the 2024 national curriculum tests.

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Guidance: Reception baseline assessment: quality monitoring visit guidance

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Guidance for quality monitors on how to conduct reception baseline assessment (RBA) quality monitoring visits, including completing the quality monitoring visit form.

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Promotional material: Key stage 1 and 2 national curriculum tests: information for parents

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Information for parents about the optional end of key stage 1 assessments and statutory end of key stage 2 assessments, sometimes referred to as SATs.

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Guidance: Phonics screening check: 2024 materials

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Scoring guidance, pupils' materials and answer sheet for the 2024 phonics screening check.

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Guidance: Phonics screening check: 2024 modified materials

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Modified materials for the 2024 phonics screening check.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: how to access results and test scripts

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Information for headteachers, teachers and local authorities about accessing 2024 test results, scaled score conversion tables, marked scripts and test papers.

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Promotional material: Pre key stage standards: information for parents

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Information for parents about the pre-key stage standards used for primary school children working below the standards of the national curriculum assessments.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 tests: 2024 English reading test modified materials

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Materials used to administer the modified large print (MLP) and braille versions of the optional English reading test in 2024.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 tests: 2024 mathematics test modified materials

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Materials used to administer the modified large print (MLP) and braille versions of the optional mathematics test in 2024.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 tests: 2024 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test modified materials

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Materials used to administer the modified large print (MLP) and braille versions of the optional English grammar, punctuation and spelling test in 2024.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 tests: 2024 mathematics test materials

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Optional mathematics test materials used in 2024.

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Guidance: Optional key stage 1 tests: 2024 English reading test materials

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Optional English reading test materials used in May 2024.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: 2024 English reading test materials

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English reading test materials administered to eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2 in May 2024.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: 2024 English reading test modified materials

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Materials for administering the modified large print (MLP), Unified English Braille (UEB) and uncontracted braille versions of the 2024 key stage 2 (KS2) English reading test.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: 2024 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test materials

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English grammar, punctuation and spelling test materials administered to eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2 in May 2024.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: 2024 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test modified materials

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Materials for administering the modified large print (MLP) and braille versions of the 2024 key stage 2 (KS2) English grammar, punctuation and spelling test.

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Guidance: Key stage 2 tests: 2024 mathematics test materials

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Mathematics test materials administered to eligible pupils at the end of key stage 2 in May 2024.

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Guidance: Phonics screening check: information for parents

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Information leaflet about the phonics screening check, which takes place in June.

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Guidance: Key stage 1: mathematics test framework

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Guidance for test developers on the purpose, format, content, cognitive demand and specification for the key stage 1 (KS1) mathematics test.

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