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KS2 English reading answer booklet 2024

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A free english past paper from Standards and Testing Agency (KS2 SATs), linked here from the publisher's own site and published in 2024.

English
2024
Mixed format

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Published by: Standards and Testing Agency (KS2 SATs)
Paper type: Past paper
Subjects: English
Exam board or style: KS2 SATs
Format: Mixed format
Year: 2024
Answers: Included in the paper
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Cataloguer's note. Contains the questions. pair with the 2024 reading booklet.

Skills classified in this paper

Response items mapped to the pinned Trace Learn skill graph. Multi-skill questions split their weight between tags.

This paper-level analysis needs review

The document reached terminal classification, but the response-item analysis still carries one or more review conditions. Its granular tags are visible as uncertain paper-level evidence and are never used as trend evidence or for rising and falling signals.

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Ambiguous paper grouping

Easy questions: 9
Medium questions: 25
Hard questions: 6

Paper-level difficulty counts include every classified response item, including creative-writing prompts. Sitting-year difficulty trends compare objective response items only, so those totals use a different, explicitly labelled denominator.

Published skill tags for KS2 English reading answer booklet 2024
Subject	Skill tag	Concept	Classification	Within-subject share	Items carrying tag	Easy / medium / hard weighted items
English	Distinguish fact and opinion	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	1%	1 of 40	0 / 0 / 0.4
English	Identify a main idea	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	2.5%	2 of 40	0 / 1 / 0
English	Identify figurative language	Language devices	Provisional analysis	2.3%	3 of 40	0 / 0.9 / 0
English	Infer a character state	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	16.8%	11 of 40	0 / 4.05 / 2.65
English	Infer implicit meaning	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	26%	24 of 40	0.15 / 7.7 / 2.55
English	Interpret a word in context	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	8.3%	5 of 40	0.4 / 2.9 / 0
English	Retrieve an explicit detail	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	38%	24 of 40	7.7 / 7.1 / 0.4
English	Select a synonym	Vocabulary	Provisional analysis	2%	2 of 40	0.6 / 0.2 / 0
English	Sequence passage events	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	3.3%	3 of 40	0.15 / 1.15 / 0

Classification coverage: 100% across 40 classified response items from 40 detected. Ratios describe classified items only, so any uncovered detected items are not silently treated as another skill. This profile is automated and is not represented as independent human review. Confirmed, provisional taxonomy, and provisional analysis labels show which claims can safely contribute to trend evidence.

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