Schools minister Nick Gibb has said he will “look at” complaints from parents and teachers about the difficulty of last week’s SATs reading paper.
Teachers and school leaders reported that children had struggled with the test on Wednesday, warning it was far more challenging than those sat in previous years.
Pressed by journalists this week about the reports, Gibb said he would “certainly look at [the criticism] because I know that there has been concern expressed by some schools”.
But he added that the Standards & Testing Agency had tested the questions last year “with a large group of children, then monitored the response of those children”.
