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2016 KS2 SATs maths papers
Year 6 · with the official mark scheme
The maths SATs papers that Year 6 children in England sat on Wednesday 11 May and Thursday 12 May 2016, at the end of Key Stage 2. Three papers. Paper 1 is arithmetic; Papers 2 and 3 are reasoning. 110 marks in all. That year, 60 marks reached the expected standard. Free to download with the mark scheme, no sign-up.
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2016 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic
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2016 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 2: reasoning
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2016 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 3: reasoning
2016 maths at a glance
- Sat on Wednesday 11 May 2016 (Papers 1 and 2), and Thursday 12 May 2016 (Paper 3)
- Marks for the expected standard 60 out of 110 (a scaled score of 100)
- Marks for the higher standard 98 out of 110 (a scaled score of 110)
- Across England 70% of pupils reached the expected standard, and 17% 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 2016 boundaries; other years are slightly different.
0 to 59 marks Working towards the expected standard
60 to 97 marks Expected standard (100 to 109)
98 to 110 marks Higher standard (110 to 120)
For the exact scaled score for every mark, see the 2016 conversion table. Fewer than 3 marks gets no scaled score.
How 2016 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 maths, it has ranged from 54 marks (2024) to 61 marks (2018).
2016 was the first year of the current tests, so there is no earlier year to compare it with. 70% of pupils reached the expected standard.
Average, 58 marks. Columns start at 50 marks so the differences show. There were no tests in 2020 or 2021.
What was different in 2016
The first year of the new-style SATs. National curriculum levels were replaced by scaled scores, there was one set of tests for everyone (no separate level 6 papers), and a written arithmetic paper replaced the old mental maths test. Reading was sat on the Monday and grammar and spelling on the Tuesday.
What this paper set is
Three papers. Paper 1 is arithmetic; Papers 2 and 3 are reasoning. 110 marks in total.
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 2016 conversion table and 2016 assessment arrangements. National figures from the Department for Education.
Contains material developed by the Standards and Testing Agency for 2016 national curriculum assessments and licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0.