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2024 KS2 SATs maths papers

Year 6 · with the official mark scheme

The maths SATs papers that Year 6 children in England sat on Wednesday 15 May and Thursday 16 May 2024, 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, 54 marks reached the expected standard. Free to download with the mark scheme, no sign-up.

2024 maths at a glance

  • Sat on Wednesday 15 May 2024 (Papers 1 and 2), and Thursday 16 May 2024 (Paper 3)
  • Marks for the expected standard 54 out of 110 (a scaled score of 100)
  • Marks for the higher standard 93 out of 110 (a scaled score of 110)
  • Across England 73% of pupils reached the expected standard, and 24% 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.

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 maths, it has ranged from 54 marks (2024) to 61 marks (2018).

In 2024, 54 marks were needed for the expected standard, 2 fewer than in 2023. That makes it one of the papers that needed fewer marks than usual, which suggests children found it a little harder. 73% of pupils reached the expected standard, compared with 73% in 2023.

Marks needed for the expected standard, out of 110
  1. 60 2016
  2. 57 2017
  3. 61 2018
  4. 58 2019
  5. 58 2022
  6. 56 2023
  7. 54 2024
  8. 58 2025
  9. 56 2026

Average, 58 marks. Columns start at 50 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

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 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.