"SATs to be scrapped next year"

[Hazza]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080907/tuk-sats-set-to-be-scrapped-next-year-6323e80.html

To be honest, they need to be scrapped. They are pointless.

[Nemo]

they're the most pointless piece of crap ever. They say you do them so you can be put in your GCSE class, well ermmm no. Our results came late so they couldnt do that and everyones basically in the right class anyway.

Plus, they're a piece of piss. I got 8 6 6 without revising and went to bed pretty late. No one really takes them seriously.

[Hazza]

I did exactly the same. I'm just not as clever as you :P
I got 6 6 5 without revising (This was 2007)

[Andys]

Does that mean the current years 9s have to do them still?
cause im in year 9 :o

[jesus]

hehe, ed balls

[Andys]

""I think it is important to have external marking, at Key Stage 2 certainly," said Mr Balls."
LOL Mr. Balls.

[Hazza]

hehe, ed balls
rofl. didn't notice that :P

[Wayne]

Does that mean the current years 9s have to do them still?
cause im in year 9 :o

You don't do SATs in year 9 do you? It's GCSEs after year 9. I'm glad SATs are being scrapped tbh. I used to get proper nervous about them tbh, dunno why.

[brandon]

You don't do SATs in year 9 do you? It's GCSEs after year 9. I'm glad SATs are being scrapped tbh. I used to get proper nervous about them tbh, dunno why.
Yes you do. :)

[Wayne]

Yes you do. :)

Sorry I was thinking of in Year 6.

[Slowpoke]

I did exactly the same. I'm just not as clever as you :P
I got 6 6 5 without revising (This was 2007)

7 6 6 without revising, they are a piece of piss (especially Maths).

[brandon]

7 6 6 without revising, they are a piece of piss (especially Maths).
Lol if they were that easy surely you would have got higher?

[Kardan]

I hope they introduce something else for the Year 9s, purely so that they can get an experience of true test conditions for when they do their GCSEs.

[Hazza]

Lol if they were that easy surely you would have got higher?
I couldn't get higher than what I got (apart from the 5 but I hate science :))

[Decode]

I still haven't got my SATs results and its 1 week into year 10 :@

[You]

All exams are pointless. Anyone can sit and read a couple of books before a test and get a good grade but it doesn't mean they are actually that clever... if you get what i mean lol

[kk.]

I hope they introduce something else for the Year 9s, purely so that they can get an experience of true test conditions for when they do their GCSEs.
i suspect if they are getting rid of them then schools will do their own 'SATs' and use them as practice and to place them in rough sets

[Geraint]

SATs are already scrapped in Wales. Instead, I did some of my GCSEs this year.

[Calon]

damn, I just completed mine and ended up with better sats than expected.

[PaulMacC]

I agree they should be gone. I got like 7 7 6 in mine, without revising aswell.

[edgates]

I still haven't got my SATs results and its 1 week into year 10 :@
Same. They go on about how they have all of the Maths and Science ones, but they don't want to give them out until they get the English ones back from America. They said it could be TWO MONTHS until we get them.

[Decode]

Same. They go on about how they have all of the Maths and Science ones, but they don't want to give them out until they get the English ones back from America. They said it could be TWO MONTHS until we get them.

My school have got them but they won't give them out until they have checked them to make sure they haven't been marked wrong :@

[Pyroka]

Ed balls is right again. This Ed balls guy definetly has some balls for cancelling this balls exam project. I just hope he shoves it out the door and into a big black bag(s).

[drama]

tgood, SATs dont mean **** and i'm tired of year 9's worrying about them like they're important.

i got a five in english for year 9 SATs and i'm predicted an A* in english GCSE haha

[N-Dubz]

thats kinda unfair for everyone whos had to go under the stress of KS3 year 9 sats & then be told there completly useless.

an i spose its alright that the SATS are getting scrapped, but they was just pointless anyways lol! its not like they help in life..

[Mickster]

thats kinda unfair for everyone whos had to go under the stress of KS3 year 9 sats & then be told there completly useless.

an i spose its alright that the SATS are getting scrapped, but they was just pointless anyways lol! its not like they help in life..

I thought this was about KS2 SATS?

[Frodo13.]

thats kinda unfair for everyone whos had to go under the stress of KS3 year 9 sats & then be told there completly useless.

an i spose its alright that the SATS are getting scrapped, but they was just pointless anyways lol! its not like they help in life..

If they had a brain to begin with they should of realised they were pointless in the first place.

[N-Dubz]

I thought this was about KS2 SATS?


Mr Balls said that the system of national tests taken by around one million children aged seven, 11 and 14 across England each May was "not set in stone" and may be replaced by assessments tailored to each child's ability level.

[Tintinnabulate]

SATs are useless I think. They need a harder end of year exam at the end of every school year. If you fail, you have to re-sit the year.

[N-Dubz]

SATs are useless I think. They need a harder end of year exam at the end of every school year. If you fail, you have to re-sit the year.

that would just be a waste of time aswell, just like SATS cept you have to re-sit it and thats kinda pointless, its not like there gonna help.

an harder? er no thanks.

[alexxxxx]

Well that's what they do in some countries.

[Rixion]

maybe they could scrap homework lool x