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2024 KS2 SATs reading papers
Year 6 · with the official mark scheme
The reading SATs papers that Year 6 children in England sat on Tuesday 14 May 2024, at the end of Key Stage 2. One reading booklet and one answer booklet, sat together. 50 marks in all. That year, 27 marks reached the expected standard. They open on GOV.UK, with the mark scheme.
Why these open on GOV.UK
The reading booklets contain material we are not allowed to host, so these link to the official copy. Same file, one click further.
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2024 key stage 2 English reading booklet
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2024 key stage 2 English reading answer booklet
2024 reading at a glance
- Sat on Tuesday 14 May 2024
- Marks for the expected standard 27 out of 50 (a scaled score of 100)
- Marks for the higher standard 40 out of 50 (a scaled score of 110)
- Across England 74% of pupils reached the expected standard, and 29% the higher standard.
What your child's mark means
Add up the marks with the mark scheme, then find the total on this bar. These are the 2024 boundaries; other years are slightly different.
0 to 26 marks Working towards the expected standard
27 to 39 marks Expected standard (100 to 109)
40 to 50 marks Higher standard (110 to 120)
For the exact scaled score for every mark, see the 2024 conversion table. Fewer than 3 marks gets no scaled score.
How 2024 compares with other years
The marks needed for the expected standard change every year, because some papers turn out a little harder than others. For reading, it has ranged from 21 marks (2016) to 29 marks (2022).
In 2024, 27 marks were needed for the expected standard, 3 more than in 2023. That makes it one of the papers that needed more marks than usual, which suggests children found it a little easier. 74% of pupils reached the expected standard, compared with 73% in 2023.
Average, 26 marks. Columns start at 16 marks so the differences show. There were no tests in 2020 or 2021.
What was different in 2024
A settled year on the usual Monday-to-Thursday timetable. The only change to the arrangements was to the modified large-print papers, which moved to A4 pages in 24-point type.
What this paper set is
One reading booklet and one answer booklet, sat together. 50 marks.
A raw mark on its own does not mean very much. It is converted to a scaled score between 80 and 120, where 100 is the expected standard, and the conversion changes every year because the papers differ slightly in difficulty. How KS2 SATs work explains the whole thing, including where to find that year's conversion table.
Dates and marks from the Standards and Testing Agency's 2024 conversion table and 2024 assessment arrangements. National figures from the Department for Education.
Contains material developed by the Standards and Testing Agency for 2024 national curriculum assessments and licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0.