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Schools faced ‘significant frustration’ during outsourcer’s first year, with thousands of papers going missing and wrong marks awarded
Ofqual also says delay to start of marking last year did not get in the way of 'standards maintenance...
Schools will receive test papers unless they opt out, despite the assessments being non-statutory from this year
The DfE has published results data from last year's SATs, the last before they were made non-statutory
But the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their better-off peers remains way above pre-pandemic levels
Malcolm Drakes had 'excessively' assisted SATs pupils, but successfully appealed his ban over error by agency
Ministers waive part of permitted fee for outsourcing giant to 'de-risk delivery for future test cycles'
59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths again this year
DfE publishes marks pupils need to meet the 'expected' standard
