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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-key-stage-2-assessment-arrangements-england-amendment-order-2010/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/290",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-key-stage-2-assessment-arrangements-england-amendment-order-2010",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 2 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 2003",
  "text": "After article 5 insert—\n“Single level tests in mathematics\n5A. (1) This article applies only to schools which have been designated for the purposes of this article.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (5) and (6), the head teacher must as far as is reasonably practicable ensure that a single level test is administered to each pupil in the final school year of the second key stage.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (5), the head teacher may arrange for a single level test to be administered to a pupil in the second key stage other than in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(4) Any test administered in accordance with paragraph (2) or (3) must be administered in accordance with any arrangements for single level tests made under article 11(1)(d) and (e).\n(5) A single level test must not be administered to a pupil unless the head teacher considers that the pupil has reached at least level 3 in relation to the ATs for mathematics in the second key stage.\n(6) The head teacher is not required to ensure that a single level test is administered to a pupil in accordance with paragraph (2) if the circumstances set out in paragraph (7) apply in relation to the pupil.\n(7) The circumstances are that—\n(a) a single level test was administered to the pupil in the school year immediately before the final school year of the second key stage,\n(b) the pupil passed the test, and\n(c) either—\n(i) the head teacher does not consider that the pupil has reached a level of attainment above that assessed by the test, or\n(ii) the test referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) was for the purpose of assessing whether the pupil had reached level 6 in relation to the ATs for mathematics in the second key stage.\n(8) Where a pupil has completed a single level test under this article, the head teacher must ensure that as soon as reasonably practicable the pupil’s responses to the test are provided to the Authority to be marked.\n(9) As soon as reasonably practicable after the pupil’s responses to a single level test have been provided to the Authority in accordance with paragraph (8), the head teacher must provide the Authority with a statement confirming that the test was administered in accordance with any arrangements for single level tests made under article 11(1)(d) and (e).\n(10) Once a single level test has been marked, the Authority must provide the head teacher with a record of the result.\n(11) In this Order, a reference to a single level test is to a test—\n(a) set by the Authority, and\n(b) whose purpose is to determine whether a pupil has reached a specified level of attainment in relation to the ATs for mathematics in the second key stage.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of the term “the second key stage” see section 82(1)(b) of the Education Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/290/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:53:25.675527+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}