BMF wrote:
If lots of children have high scores, then the pass mark will be higher. Having said that, I agree that it can be quite hard for 10 year olds to judge how well they did. They obviously mark the answer that they think is correct, but the papers are designed to offer answers that match wrong answers generated by common errors. It looks correct to the kid, but is not actually right.
I think general feedback that I’ve heard is that the maths and English papers were reasonable, but that the reasoning papers were quite hard.
Recently maths pass mark has been 11 or 12 out of 25, English has been 14 or 15 out of 26 and reasoning about 40 out of 80 (although this varies quite a bit by age), so it looks like the papers are normally really very tricky!
This is very interesting and sounds surprisingly low. Can I ask how you are privy to this information? Thanks.