Mini SATs Practice Tests 1-10: KS2 Year 6

Ten Year 6 KS2 mini SATs papers (1 to 10): questions each on maths, SPaG, reading and spelling, with answers. One sheet a day. Free PDF.

This 30-page A4 PDF contains mini SATs papers 1 to 10, with all ten answer pages at the back. What is a mini SATs paper? It is a short, mixed practice paper that samples every part of the Year 6 SATs in about 20 minutes, rather than practising one test at a time. Doing a little of everything, often, keeps every skill ticking over and shows quickly which areas need more teaching.

Each paper is one double-sided A4 sheet. Side 1 has five maths questions, one each on arithmetic, number, fractions, measures, and geometry or statistics, every one with a squared working area and diagrams where needed, followed by five grammar, punctuation and spelling questions in the formats children meet in the SATs: circling or underlining words, ticking the correct answer, adding punctuation and completing tick-box grids. Side 2 has a short reading text with five questions (retrieval, inference, vocabulary and a true-or-false table) and five spellings, each a missing word in a sentence for an adult to read aloud.

Reading texts in this set (5 non-fiction texts, 2 stories and 3 biographies): Bioluminescence (non-fiction); Jane Goodall (biography); The Challenger (fiction); Sharks (non-fiction); Atoms and Elements (non-fiction); Forces and Gravity (non-fiction); Ancient Greece (non-fiction); The Crossing-Sweeper (fiction); Tenzing Norgay (biography); Charlie Chaplin (biography).

A taste of paper 1. Arithmetic: 7959 × 84 (answer 668,556). Grammar: Underline the noun phrase in the sentence below: The battered leather suitcase belonged to Grandad. Spellings: conscience, artificial, weight, individual, opposite.

How it links to the SATs: in May, Year 6 pupils sit an arithmetic paper and two reasoning papers in maths, a grammar, punctuation and spelling questions paper, a 20-word spelling test and an hour-long reading paper. Every one of those is represented on each mini paper, so children practise switching between question types, just as the real tests demand.

How to use them: give one paper a day as a morning task or lesson starter, then mark it together using the answer page. Children can record their score out of 20 on the paper and look for patterns over a week. They also work well for homework, booster groups, tutoring and assessment for learning before a unit.

The answer pages are at the back, one per paper. They give every answer, short working for the maths, the punctuation to add shown in bold, and the spelling words with their sentences, so an adult can read each word, the sentence, then the word again, as in the SATs spelling test.

This is set 1 of 10 in a series of 100 mini SATs papers. No question, reading text or spelling word appears twice across the series, so the sets can be used one after another from autumn to May. All the papers are also available together as one bundle.