A selection of comments were gathered from primary schools in the North of England after the most recent round of SATs tests were completed.
"I'm not very good at anything and they were making me not able to sleep at night and because I couldn't sleep I was very tired in the morning"
"my uncle did say that he would give me a lot of money if I got good scores but that hasn't helped me either!"
"I was really stressed and worn out with all the revision. We got too much"
"A lot of people really weren't looking forward to them"
"Before SATs I felt fine until everybody started putting pressure on me. I then felt like a twig carrying bricks"
"I was nervous and worrying about how good I was going to do"
"Before SATs there were a lot of revision clubs. Which I went to. I was not looking forward to my SATs because I knew I only had one chance"
"I would get headaches every time we were to start or we had finished the test, because I was nervous"
