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Change description : 2025-10-13 09:30:00: Updated for the academic year 2025 to 2026. [Guidance and regulation]

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Guidance

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 2025.2026.

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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 mustshould consider whether any of their pupils willmay need access arrangements before they administer the tests.

Updates to this page

Published 4 December 2017

Last updated 1013 MarchOctober 2025 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates
    1. 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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Update history

2025-10-13 09:30
Updated for the academic year 2025 to 2026.

2025-03-10 09:30
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.

2024-10-14 09:30
Updated for the academic year 2024 to 2025.

2023-10-11 10:59
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.

2022-10-10 09:19
Updated guidance for the 2022-23 test cycle.