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Optional key stage 1 tests: test administration guidance (TAG)

Guidance for headteachers, teachers and teaching assistants administering the optional key stage 1 (KS1) national curriculum tests in 2025.

From:
Standards and Testing Agency
Published
18 March 2016
Last updated
10 March 2025 — See all updates

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Optional key stage 1 test administration guidance

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If you are involved in administering the optional KS1 tests in 2025, you can prepare by reading this guidance. It includes information about:

  • planning for the tests
  • receiving test materials
  • administering and marking the tests

Updates to this page

Published 18 March 2016
Last updated 10 March 2025 show all updates

  1. Updated for the academic year 2024 to 2025

  2. Updated guidance for administering the optional end of key stage 1 tests in 2024.

  3. Updated for 2023 test cycle

  4. Updated guidance for administering the 2022 key stage 1 national curriculum tests.

  5. Updated for the 2020 test cycle.

  6. Updated for the 2019 test cycle.

  7. Updated for the 2018 test cycle.

  8. Updated for the 2017 test cycle.

  9. Update added about the removal of the requirement to administer the 2016 KS1 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test.

  10. First published.

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