Optional key stage 1 tests: access arrangements
Guidance for schools about access arrangements available for pupils participating in the optional key stage 1 (KS1) national curriculum tests in 2025.
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Some pupils with specific needs may need additional arrangements so they can take part in the optional KS1 tests.
Types of support include:
- additional time to complete the tests
- adaptations of test papers
- compensatory marks for spelling
- the use of scribes, word processors or other technical or electronic aids
- making a transcript
- written or oral translations
- readers
- the use of prompts and rest breaks
- accessibility objects in the mathematics test
- highlighter pens
- administering the tests at an alternative location
Schools must consider whether any of their pupils will need access arrangements before they administer the tests.
Updates to this page
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The 2025 key stage 1 raw score to scaled score conversion tables and compensatory marks for spelling will be available to download from the Primary Assessment Gateway 2 weeks earlier - they will now be available from Thursday 1 May.
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Updated for the academic year 2024 to 2025.
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Updated guidance for the academic year 2023 to 2024, including information to clarify arrangements now that end of key stage 1 assessments are no longer statutory.
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Updated guidance for the 2022-23 test cycle.
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Uploaded the 2022 Key stage 1 tests: access arrangements.
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Updated for the 2020 test cycle.
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Updated guidance for the 2019 test cycle.
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First published.