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Year 6 · SATs preparation

Year 6 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.

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

Ratio and proportion

Algebra

Measurement

Geometry

Statistics

2 Options
Questions from

Before you tick “Older tests”: the 2000 to 2015 tests were set for levels 3 to 5 under an older curriculum. Their questions are generally easier than today’s Year 6 SATs, and a few topics (like probability) are no longer in the Year 6 test. Tick this box for extra practice or for pupils who need easier questions; leave it unticked for questions that match today’s tests. The sheet and the page both say when older questions are included.

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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, and, if you tick "Older tests", from the 2000 to 2015 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).

About the older tests. The 2000 to 2015 tests were set for levels 3 to 5 under an older curriculum, so their questions are generally easier than today's tests and a few topics (like probability) are no longer in the Year 6 tests. They have no official topic codes, so we sorted each question into the same topics by hand: treat those labels as our best judgement. Test A (Paper 1) had no calculator; before 2014 Test B allowed one, and those questions say so on your sheet. A bare calculation counts as arithmetic; everything else counts as reasoning.

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 practice on individual calculation methods see the arithmetic skills.

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