Year 7 maths baseline assessment and mark scheme for assessing KS2 knowledge on entry to secondary school. Includes a 50-mark, 60-minute paper.

This professionally designed diagnostic assessment helps teachers identify pupils’ mathematical strengths and areas for development at the beginning of Year 7.

The assessment is aligned to key objectives from the Key Stage 2 Mathematics National Curriculum for England and progresses from accessible fluency questions to more challenging reasoning and problem-solving tasks.

Content assessed
Number and place value
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Rounding and calculation fluency
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Geometry and measures
Perimeter and area
Coordinates and reflection
Algebra and sequences
Ratio and proportion
Statistics, money and time
Mathematical reasoning and multi-step problem solving
Included in this resource
50-mark Year 7 baseline assessment
60-minute non-calculator paper
Clear pupil instructions
Accessible and progressively challenging questions
Full teacher mark scheme
Detailed method-mark guidance
Section-by-section mark totals
Teacher recording grid

The assessment is suitable for use:

During Year 6 to Year 7 transition
At the beginning of the autumn term
As an initial diagnostic assessment
To support class planning, intervention and pupil grouping
In mainstream, intervention, tutoring and home-education settings

The assessment has been designed to provide useful diagnostic information without requiring pupils to have studied the Year 7 curriculum already.

A complete toolkit containing an automated Excel tracker, question-level analysis, curriculum mapping, class analysis and individual pupil reports is also being developed separately.