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Year 5 · SATs preparation

Year 5 SATs past questions

Real questions from past KS2 maths tests, sorted by topic. Tick the topics you want, choose how many questions, and download a neatly set out practice sheet with its mark-scheme answers. Nothing is made up: every question is exactly as it was set. The SATs are sat at the end of Year 6 but they are built on four years of maths, so only the questions that need Year 5 skills or earlier are on this page.

1 Choose the topics

Arithmetic questions are like Paper 1 (short calculations). Reasoning questions are like Papers 2 and 3 (problems, diagrams and explanations). Use either column, or both.

Arithmetic (Paper 1 style)

Calculations with an answer box

Tick at least one category

Number and place value

Calculation

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Reasoning (Papers 2 and 3 style)

Problems, diagrams and explanations

Tick at least one category

Number and place value

Calculation

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Measurement

Geometry

Statistics

2 Options
Skills taught in

Each question is placed by the year its skill is first taught in the national curriculum. Untick the earlier years to practise only this year's new skills. A question marked stretch is allowed for this year but may be hard.

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About these questions

The questions come from the key stage 2 maths tests from 2016 to 2025, including the 2016 sample tests. Each is a picture cut straight from the published paper, with its original marks. The printed question number is removed so your sheet can number its own questions, and the answers are the official mark-scheme entries. Topic names come from the content-domain code the Standards and Testing Agency gives each question (for example 6C7b is long division). The first digit of that code is the year group where the skill is first taught, which is how we chose the questions for Year 5; we then looked at every question and moved a few that suit a different year (for example long multiplication is taught in Year 5 although the tests code it as Year 6), and left out questions that need a ruler or protractor at true size. Topics with no suitable question are not shown. We have not asked a teacher to check the difficulty, so look through your sheet before you give it out.

Arithmetic questions that carry one mark are shown as a short strip with an answer box and some working space; long multiplication and long division keep their working grid. Calculators are not allowed in the 2016 to 2025 tests.

Want fresh questions in the same style instead? The generated SATs-style questions use these same topics, with new numbers and diagrams each time. For lesson worksheets see the Year 5 maths worksheets.

Questions and mark schemes © Crown copyright (Standards and Testing Agency). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This site is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Standards and Testing Agency or the Department for Education.