Mini SATs Practice Tests 71-80: KS2 Year 6

Ten Year 6 KS2 mini SATs papers (71 to 80): 5 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 71 to 80, with all ten answer pages at the back. Short, mixed papers like these are an efficient way to revise for the Year 6 SATs. Each one covers maths, grammar, reading and spelling in about 20 minutes, so children revisit every area regularly instead of cramming one subject at a time.

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, 3 stories, 1 poem and 2 biographies): Above the Clouds (fiction); The Last Jar (fiction); Bees and Pollination (non-fiction); Black Holes (non-fiction); Afghanistan (non-fiction); The Oasis (fiction); Great White Sharks (non-fiction); Laika (biography); Grandad’s Teeth (poetry); Yuri Gagarin (biography).

A taste of paper 71. Arithmetic: 597 × 3 (answer 1,791). Grammar: Circle the pronoun in the sentence below: I am able to swim. Spellings: discipline, succeed, nature, assume, research.

How it matches the SATs: the maths questions mirror the arithmetic and reasoning papers, the grammar questions use the same answer formats as the grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, the spellings follow the dictation style of the spelling test, and the reading questions cover the skills tested in the reading paper.

Ideas for use: set one paper each morning, as homework, or as a warm-up before an intervention group. Mark it the same day so misconceptions are fixed while they are fresh, and keep the scores out of 20 to see progress across the set.

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 8 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.