Mini SATs Practice Tests 51-60: KS2 Year 6

Ten Year 6 KS2 mini SATs papers (51 to 60): 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 51 to 60, with all ten answer pages at the back. A mini SATs paper is a cut-down practice test: a few questions from each of the Year 6 SATs papers on one double-sided sheet. Because it takes about 20 minutes, it fits into a normal school day, and regular short practice builds stamina and confidence without the fatigue of a full past paper.

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 (4 non-fiction texts, 4 stories, 1 poem and 1 biography): The Wall (fiction); Geoff (fiction); Sports Day (fiction); Mountains and Coasts (non-fiction); The Drawing (poetry); The Talent Show (fiction); Food Chains (non-fiction); Charles Darwin (biography); Rivers (non-fiction); Why Wombats Do Square Poo (non-fiction).

A taste of paper 51. Arithmetic: 139,655 + 180,035 (answer 319,690). Grammar: Circle the preposition in the sentence below: He placed it beneath the table. Spellings: agree, reaction, vicious, obedient, belief.

Links to the SATs: the five areas of each paper match the five kinds of SATs test children take in May (arithmetic, reasoning, grammar and punctuation, spelling and reading), so a week of mini papers touches every test several times.

Ways to use the set: one paper a day for two weeks makes a simple revision routine. Mark each paper as a class from the answer page, talk through the questions most children found hard, and re-teach those before the next paper. The papers also suit homework, tutoring and small-group catch-up.

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 6 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.