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Additional time application form questions
These questions are taken from the form which schools must use to apply for pupils to have additional time for the key stage 2 national curriculum tests. The form must be completed on the NCA tools website at
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Question 1
This question is designed to identify pupils who are able to understand an instruction given in their first language, but who do not use English as an additional language.
Can the pupil respond appropriately to a simple request or instruction given in English without prompts or aids?
Note: in the context of this question ‘aids’ relate to interpreters or translators which enable the pupil to understand English as an additional language.
Question 2
This question is designed to identify pupils with a hearing impairment.
Can the pupil respond appropriately to a simple verbal request or instruction given in English without prompts, aids or having to lip read?
Note: in the context of this question ‘aids’ refer to communicators and sign language interpreters which compensate for the pupil’s hearing impairment.
Question 3
This question is designed to identify pupils with a visual impairment.
Can the pupil read and understand text without the need for braille and/or enhanced text?
Question 4
This question is designed to identify pupils with specific difficulties in concentrating, possibly reflecting ADHD, learning disability, autistic spectrum disorders, and/or behavioural, emotional and social difficulties.
Can the pupil focus on a task for at least 15 minutes with no difficulty and without prompts?
Note: ‘Task’ refers to any type of normal classroom work which requires the pupil to work independently and without interruption.
Question 5
This question is designed to identify pupils who write with great difficulty in their first language. This may be because of a temporary or permanent physical, motor skill or learning disability that means the pupil has difficulty managing the conflicting demands of processing information, thinking what to write, how to spell it, and writing it legibly.
Does the pupil have a free-writing speed of more than 10 words per minute?
Question 6
This question is designed to identify pupils who have difficulty reading.
Can the pupil read the text of practice English reading tests aloud and fluently with no/very few errors (ie less than 5 errors per 20 words)?
Note: in the context of this question, the level of the practice tests should be aimed at year 6 pupils.
Question 7
This question is designed to identify pupils who have specific processing difficulties when decoding information.
In general, can the pupil correctly understand what questions from a practice key stage 2 test are asking them to do:
immediately after reading the questions or having had them read to them; and
without referring back to the questions?
Note: in the context of this question:
the practice tests can be English or mathematics
the level of the practice tests should be aimed at year 6 pupils
Question 8a
This question is designed to identify pupils who have difficulty remembering information.
Can the pupil repeat back a string of 5, random single-digit numbers with no difficulty?
Question 8b
This question is designed to identify pupils who have difficulties processing information.
Can the pupil correctly understand what questions from a practice key stage 2 test are asking them to do when allowed to refer back to them?
Note: in the context of this question:
the practice tests can be English or mathematics
the level of the practice tests should be aimed at year 6 pupils