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2023 SATs SPaG Paper 2: spelling

About 15 minutes, not strictly timed. 20 marks, 20 words. This is the KS2 spelling paper Year 6 sat in May 2023.

Who reads the words

Marked against the official 2023 mark scheme when you finish.

Name

Before you start

  • Turn the sound on, or ask a grown-up to sit with you and read the words.
  • For each spelling you hear the word, then a sentence with the word in it, then the word again. Write the missing word in the box.
  • There are 20 words. The paper takes about 15 minutes and is not strictly timed, so the clock only shows how long it has taken.
  • There is no clock to beat and the paper is not handed in for you. Hand it in when the last word is written.

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How this paper is marked

Answers with one right form are marked for you; answers you draw or explain are shown beside the official mark scheme for you or a grown-up to mark.

  • 20 of the 20 answers are marked by the site the moment the paper is handed in. If one is written in a way the site cannot be sure about, it goes to the grown-up with the mark scheme.
  • Nothing in this paper needs a grown-up to mark it.

A paper on its own has no scaled score. The scaled score needs all 2 grammar, punctuation and spelling papers for 2023, added together and converted with the official 2023 table.

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What is in the 2023 SPaG Paper 2: spelling

20 questions and 20 marks. Every question is worth one mark.

What it tests

The official mark scheme links the 20 words to 20 different spelling rules from the national curriculum. Three words test two rules at once.

In 2023, 36 out of 70 across the 2 grammar, punctuation and spelling papers was the mark needed for a scaled score of 100, the expected standard. Work out a scaled score

The official 2023 files

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