Now the controversial Year 6 Sats test has been published, does it look fair or impossibly difficult?
Whatever your age, you can test yourself below and judge whether these skills are a fair expectation for an 11-year-old.Possibly the most straightforward questions were those that offered 16 marks for answers where the required skill was to "retrieve and record information or identify key details".
The howl pierced the darkening sky and made Innis Munro stop dead in his tracks. He pulled his hood down, [and] listened intently. The only sound was his beating heart. That was a wolf, he thought. Nine points were on offer for questions that tested how pupils actually understood words and phrases that were being used. In this case, it was the extent of pupils' general vocabulary that was being tested, such as in these examples:
He pressed on but kept his hood down. The afternoon light of early March was fading fast, snow was falling, and he was still a good half mile from home.Q: Which of the following [words] is closest in meaning to unmistakable - unlikely, unfamiliar, possible or definite?Bats for Sats - the winged mammals were featured in one of the passages on which pupils had to answer questions.
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