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2017 KS2 SATs maths papers
Year 6 · with the official mark scheme
The maths SATs papers that Year 6 children in England sat on Wednesday 10 May and Thursday 11 May 2017, 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, 57 marks reached the expected standard. Free to download with the mark scheme, no sign-up.
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2017 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic
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2017 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 2: reasoning
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2017 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 3: reasoning
2017 maths at a glance
- Sat on Wednesday 10 May 2017 (Papers 1 and 2), and Thursday 11 May 2017 (Paper 3)
- Marks for the expected standard 57 out of 110 (a scaled score of 100)
- Marks for the higher standard 95 out of 110 (a scaled score of 110)
- Across England 75% of pupils reached the expected standard, and 23% 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 2017 boundaries; other years are slightly different.
0 to 56 marks Working towards the expected standard
57 to 94 marks Expected standard (100 to 109)
95 to 110 marks Higher standard (110 to 120)
For the exact scaled score for every mark, see the 2017 conversion table. Fewer than 3 marks gets no scaled score.
How 2017 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).
In 2017, 57 marks were needed for the expected standard, 3 fewer than in 2016. That makes it one of the papers that needed fewer marks than usual, which suggests children found it a little harder. 75% of pupils reached the expected standard, compared with 70% in 2016.
Average, 58 marks. Columns start at 50 marks so the differences show. There were no tests in 2020 or 2021.
What was different in 2017
The second year of the new tests, in the same order as 2016: reading on the Monday, then grammar, punctuation 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 2017 conversion table and 2017 assessment arrangements. National figures from the Department for Education.
Contains material developed by the Standards and Testing Agency for 2017 national curriculum assessments and licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0.