Children take the same paper type every year, and they always take the papers in the same order.

On the first day of Year 6 SATs dates for 2025, children will take two English papers.These are the Grammar & Punctuation test and the Spelling test. On the second day of SATs, they will take the English Reading Paper, which will conclude their English tests.

On the third day of SATs week, children take two Maths papers. These are Mathematics Arithmetic (Paper 1) and Mathematics Reasoning (Paper 2).

On the fourth day of SATs week, children take their final SATs paper: Mathematics Reasoning (Paper 3).