2025 SATs maths Paper 3: reasoning
40 minutes, 35 marks, 22 questions. This is the KS2 paper Year 6 sat in May 2025.
Marked against the official 2025 mark scheme when you finish.
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Before you start
- Have a pencil, some paper and a ruler ready. There is no calculator in this paper.
- Some questions ask you to draw, explain or complete a diagram. Do those on paper, or type a note; a grown-up marks them after you hand in.
- This is the second reasoning paper. It counts the same as Paper 2.
- The clock cannot be paused. When it reaches zero the paper is handed in with the answers you have given, so keep an eye on it, or ask a grown-up to.
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.
- 24 of the 26 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.
- 2 answers are drawn, written into a sentence or explained, so a grown-up marks them.
- 7 questions can earn a mark for the method even when the answer is wrong. A grown-up decides that from the working.
A paper on its own has no scaled score. The scaled score needs all 3 maths papers for 2025, added together and converted with the official 2025 table.
What is in the 2025 maths Paper 3: reasoning
22 questions and 35 marks. 10 are worth one mark, 11 are worth two marks and 1 is worth three marks.
What it tests
The areas the official mark scheme gives for each question. A question can cover more than one area, so the numbers can add up to more than 22.
- Number and place value5 questions
- Calculations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division7 questions
- Fractions, decimals and percentages6 questions
- Ratio and proportion1 question
- Algebra1 question
- Measurement7 questions
- Geometry: properties of shapes1 question
- Geometry: position and direction1 question
- Statistics2 questions
In 2025, 58 out of 110 across the 3 maths papers was the mark needed for a scaled score of 100, the expected standard. Work out a scaled score