Guidance: Key stage 1 tests: test administration guidance (TAG)

Standards Testing Agency

March 13

07:55 2023

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78957-500-2, STA/20/8517/e PDF, 313 KB, 36 pages

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

It includes information about:

This video shows how schools submit their headteachers declaration form:

Published 18 March 2016
Last updated 13 March 2023 +show all updates

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Updated for 2023 test cycle
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16 March 2020
Updated for the 2020 test cycle.
18 March 2019
Updated for the 2019 test cycle.
19 March 2018
Updated for the 2018 test cycle.
21 March 2017
Updated for the 2017 test cycle.
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