Guidance

Key stage 1 tests: test administration guidance (TAG)

Guidance for headteachers, teachers and teaching assistants about administering the 20222023 key stage 1 national curriculum tests.

From:
Standards and Testing Agency
Published
18 March 2016
Last updated
1413 March 20222023 — See all updates

Documents

Key stage 1: test administration guidance

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78957-500-2, STA/20/8517/e PDF, 401313 KB, 3336 pages

Details

If you’re involved in administering the key stage 1 tests in 2022,2023, you should prepare by reading this test administration guidance (TAG).

It includes information about:

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

This video shows how schools submit their headteacher’s declaration form:

Headteacher’s declaration form

Published 18 March 2016
Last updated 1413 March 20222023 + show all updates

  1. Updated for 2023 test cycle

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

  3. Updated for the 2020 test cycle.

  4. Updated for the 2019 test cycle.

  5. Updated for the 2018 test cycle.

  6. Updated for the 2017 test cycle.

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

  8. First published.