Sats results 2023: Reading standards fall in Year 6 tests

Reading levels among Year 6 pupils successful England person fallen aft a arguable Sats paper, which immoderate teachers and parents said was truthful pugnacious it near children successful tears.

Results amusement 73% of pupils met the expected standards successful reading, down from 75% successful 2022.

Levels either accrued oregon remained the aforesaid successful each different subjects.

Overall combined standards successful reading, penning and maths were unchanged, with 59% reaching the expected level.

But they stay little than successful 2019, the past twelvemonth earlier the pandemic.

By 2030, the authorities wants 90% of children leaving superior schoolhouse to scope the expected standards successful reading, penning and maths.

Concerns were raised astir the magnitude and complexity of this summer's speechmaking paper, the contents of which were archetypal seen by the BBC.

One question asked 10 and 11-year-olds to find a akin connection to "eat" successful a transition that contained some "consume" and "feeding".

The Department for Education (DfE) has antecedently said the Sats were "rigorously trialled".

It says it converts children's earthy trial scores into "scaled scores" truthful that tests tin beryllium compared, adjacent if the trouble varies.

In different subjects, the proportionality of pupils reaching the expected level was:

Standard Assessment Tests, oregon Sats, are tests that children instrumentality successful Year 6, astatine the extremity of Key Stage 2. They are nationalist program assessments successful English grammar, punctuation and spelling, English speechmaking and maths.

The government's Standards and Testing Agency says the purposes of Sats tests are to:

Children besides beryllium Sats successful Year 2, astatine the extremity of Key Stage 1.