Recently Karen Brook, one of our Teaching Adviser Trustees, sent Mukesh a UK year 6 English SATS test for 10/11 year olds and suggested he should test our children with it. Below is the test paper and results of the test taken by our class 9 and 10 children. These are our top children, having had 7 years in our school and now studying in our secondary school. They will, therefore, be older than the English year 6 children but they are being tested in a foreign language. I will leave you to judge the results, but to get an impression of the difficulty of the exam, why not try it yourself? I did, but was soon using the internet to find the answers.
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High School English Test Paper
Name............................................ Sch. No............ Time 1 hour
1. Underline the longest possible noun phrase in the sentence below.
That book about the Romans was interesting.
2. Tick one box in each row to show whether the word after is used as a subordinating conjunction or as a preposition
| Sentence |
after used as a subordinating
conjunction
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after used as a preposition
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| He moved here after
the end of the war
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Entry is free after
5pm in the evening |
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I went to the cinema after I had eaten my dinner
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3. Underline the verb form that is in the present perfect in the passage below.
Rachel loves music and has wanted to learn how to play the piano for years. She was hoping for piano lessons, and was delighted when her parents gave her a keyboard for her birthday.
4. Circle all the pronouns in the sentence below.
They bought new jumpers for themselves and a warm scarf for Dad.
5. Circle the two words in the sentence below that are synonyms of each other.
He was lucky to win first prize - he knew it was fortunate that his closest rival had decided not to take part.
6. What does the root struct mean in the word family below?
destruction structure reconstruct
(a) break, (b) build, (c) carry, d) touch
7. What does the word others refer to in the passage below?
Some plants, such as sunflowers, die in winter. Others, such as daffodils, survive as bulbs underground.
(a) plants, b) sunflowers, (c) daffodils, (d) bulbs
8. Circle all the determiners in the sentence below.
Two apple trees screened the open windows on one side.
9. Complete the sentence below so that it uses the subjunctive form.
If I __________ to have one wish, it would be for good health.
10. Which sentence is written in the active voice?
(a) The book was returned to the library yesterday.
(b) The assembly was held in the hall.
(c) The bad weather led to the cancellation.
(d) The floods were caused by the heavy rain.
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Results
| | | | | Maximum Marks | 20
| % |
Place
| Name | Gender | Class |
Scholar No
| | |
|
1
|
Dheeraj
|
boy
|
9
|
P0795
|
18
|
90
|
|
2
|
Arvind Kumar
|
boy
|
10
|
P0734
|
17
|
85
|
|
3
|
Pooja
|
girl
|
9
| A1015 |
16
|
80
|
|
|
Kavita
| girl |
9
| P0763 |
16
|
80
|
|
|
Sunita
| girl |
9
| P0784 |
16
|
80
|
|
|
Manisha
| girl |
10
| A0963 |
16
|
80
|
|
7
| Brijesh Kumar | boy |
9
| G1366 |
15
|
75
|
|
| Vivek Kumar | boy |
9
| P0815 |
15
|
75
|
|
| Monu | boy |
10
| G2755 |
15
|
75
|
|
| Nirmala | girl |
10
| G1291 | 15 | 75 |
|
| Kumari Kalpana | girl |
10
| P0712 | 15 | 75 |
|
12
| Aanchal Singh | girl |
9
| H0986 | 14 | 70 |
|
| Hari Shankar | boy |
10
| P0739 | 14 | 70 |
|
| Pushpa Devi | girl |
10
| G1297 | 14 | 70 |
|
| Dipali | girl |
10
| G1469 | 14 | 70 |
|
16
| Bal Shekhar | boy |
9
| G1312 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Abhishek | boy |
9
| P0788 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Neha | girl |
9
| M0775 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Paramanand | boy |
10
| A0988 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Rakesh Kumar | boy | 10 | A0991 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Ram Janam | boy | 10 | A0994 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Shiv Kumar | boy | 10 | A1001 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Amit Kumar | boy | 10 | H0956 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Aashish Kumar | boy | 10 | P0730 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Manish Kumar | boy | 10 | P0741 | 13 | 65 |
|
| Shiv Mangal | boy | 10 | P0753 | 13 | 65 |
|
27
| Pradeep | boy | 9 | M0756 | 12 | 60 |
|
| Anuj Kumar | boy | 9 | G1310 | 12 | 60 |
|
| Ajit Kumar | boy | 9 | A1033 | 12 | 60 |
|
| Sita | girl | 9 | A1027 | 12 | 60 |
| Kamlesh Kumar | boy | 10 | A0985 | 12 | 60 |
| Ritesh Kumar | boy | 10 | H0974 | 12 | 60 |
| Kavita | girl | 10 | G1230 | 12 | 60 |
| Manorama | girl | 10 | M0730 | 12 | 60 |
|
35
| Abhishek Yadav | boy | 9 | M0743 | 11 | 55 |
| Deepak Kumar | boy | 9 | G1313 | 11 | 55 |
| Sandeep Kumar | boy | 9 | G1326 | 11 | 55 |
| Dheeraj Kumar | boy | 9 | G1367 | 11 | 55 |
| Jitendra Kumar | boy | 9 | A1043 | 11 | 55 |
| Nargis | girl | 10 | G1234 | 11 | 55 |
| Aaradhana | girl | 10 | G1279 | 11 | 55 |
| Aarati | girl | 10 | G1280 | 11 | 55 |
| Seema Kumari | girl | 10 | G1301 | 11 | 55 |
|
44
| Shivkant | boy | 9 | G1328 | 10 | 50 |
| Govind | boy | 9 | G1368 | 10 | 50 |
| Babloo | boy | 9 | A1036 | 10 | 50 |
| Nargis | girl | 9 | G1398 | 10 | 50 |
| Priyanka | girl | 9 | G1405 | 10 | 50 |
| Sujata | girl | 9 | A1030 | 10 | 50 |
| Vivek Kumar | boy | 10 | G1221 | 10 | 50 |
| Abhishek | boy | 10 | G1251 | 10 | 50 |
| Mohammad Arif | boy | 10 | G1262 | 10 | 50 |
| Pankaj Kumar | boy | 10 | G1266 | 10 | 50 |
| Suraj | boy | 10 | G1273 | 10 | 50 |
| Anupam Prajapati | boy | 10 | M0697 | 10 | 50 |
|
56
| Nikhil Kumar | boy | 9 | M0753 | 9 | 45 |
| Anmol Kumar | boy | 9 | G1309 | 9 | 45 |
| Deepak | boy | 9 | M0747 | 9 | 45 |
| Sangeeta | girl | 9 | G1413 | 9 | 45 |
| Preeti | girl | 9 | A1019 | 9 | 45 |
| Gokul | boy | 10 | G1257 | 9 | 45 |
| Mohammad Danish | boy | 10 | G1261 | 9 | 45 |
|
63
| Ranjeet Kumar | boy | 9 | G1324 | 8 | 40 |
|
64
| Om Prakash | boy | 9 | M0754 | 7 | 35 |
| Raju Kumar | boy | 9 | A1052 | 7 | 35 |
| Aakash | boy | 9 | P0786 | 7 | 35 |
| Deepak | boy | 10 | M0700 | 7 | 35 |
| Shivangini Singh | girl | 10 | G1302 | 7 | 35 |
| Kumari Aarati | girl | 10 | P0707 | 7 | 35 |
|
70
| Soni | girl | 9 | H1009 | 6 | 30 |
| Mangla Prasad | boy | 10 | G1204 | 6 | 30 |
|
72
| Dinesh Kumar | boy | 9 | A1040 | 5 | 25 |
| Maneesh | boy | 9 | G1321 | 5 | 25 |
| Vijay Kumar | boy | 9 | P0812 | 5 | 25 |
