The latest, 2026 KS2 Maths SAT Papers, with full answers and mark schemes, are now available completely free of charge. Old KS2 Maths SAT Papers are an excellent source of material for both parents and teachers. They provide a perfect resource for practice and assessment.

We have taken a close look at these papers and once again they followed a very similar format to previous years – good to know if you want to revise for next year’s papers!

The Arithmetic Paper in 2026 was very similar to previous years. It began with four operations questions, gradually getting harder and decimals were not introduced until much later than last year. Most questions were worth one mark each, although more questions were worth two marks each this year than previously. For these questions one mark could be awarded for showing a formal method of working out, even if a calculating error has been made.

Overall, however, it seems that this paper was fair and increased in difficulty in an appropriate way.

The two Reasoning Papers were also very similar to previous years, with Paper 2 once again deemed to be harder than Paper 3. Paper 2 had less questions than previous years, but more questions that were worth two marks. The same main issues seem to have been raised by teachers. Firstly, some children found it hard to complete the paper in time, even though they were capable of doing the maths to get correct answers.

The second issue raised that there were too many very wordy questions. While the maths was relatively simple, the questions were unnecessarily confusing with complicated wording.

Thirdly, some of the multi-step problems, where children had to work through several stages, were only worth one mark; nothing being given for a correct method but a slightly incorrect calculation.

Overall, this year’s maths papers were similar to previous years and should reflect pupils’ mathematical understanding well.

These Papers are all freely available on the site. If you have a child approaching Year 6 they will be an invaluable resource, together with our large selection of revision materials.