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2025 KS2 SATs maths papers
Year 6 · with the official mark scheme
The maths SATs papers that Year 6 children in England sat on Wednesday 14 May and Thursday 15 May 2025, 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, 58 marks reached the expected standard. Free to download with the mark scheme, no sign-up.
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2025 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic
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2025 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 2: reasoning
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2025 key stage 2 mathematics Paper 3: reasoning
2025 maths at a glance
- Sat on Wednesday 14 May 2025 (Papers 1 and 2), and Thursday 15 May 2025 (Paper 3)
- Marks for the expected standard 58 out of 110 (a scaled score of 100)
- Marks for the higher standard 95 out of 110 (a scaled score of 110)
- Across England 74% of pupils reached the expected standard, and 26% 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 2025 boundaries; other years are slightly different.
0 to 57 marks Working towards the expected standard
58 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 2025 conversion table. Fewer than 3 marks gets no scaled score.
How 2025 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 2025, 58 marks were needed for the expected standard, 4 more than in 2024. That is close to the average for this subject. 74% of pupils reached the expected standard, compared with 73% in 2024.
Average, 58 marks. Columns start at 50 marks so the differences show. There were no tests in 2020 or 2021.
What was different in 2025
The usual Monday-to-Thursday timetable, with no changes to how the tests were run.
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 2025 conversion table and 2025 assessment arrangements. National figures from the Department for Education.
Contains material developed by the Standards and Testing Agency for 2025 national curriculum assessments and licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0.