Get a quick snapshot of your new Year 3 pupils’ starting points with this FREE English and Maths mini diagnostic assessment and automatic Excel gap analysis tracker.
Designed for the beginning of Year 3, this short assessment samples selected Year 2 prerequisite knowledge that pupils are likely to need as they move into the Year 3 curriculum. It is deliberately shorter than a full baseline and is intended to help teachers spot potential gaps that may need revisiting or further assessment.
What’s included?

English Mini Diagnostic – 12 marks

The 12 questions sample:

• Capital letters and full stops
• Question marks
• Sentence types
• Nouns and verbs
• Adjectives
• Conjunctions
• Past and present tense
• Singular and plural forms
• Common exception words
• Sentence meaning
• Sentence construction

The questions and diagnostic areas can be seen directly in the pupil assessment and teacher answer section.

Maths Mini Diagnostic – 12 marks

The Maths assessment samples:

• Reading and writing numbers to 100
• Place value
• Comparing numbers
• Addition and subtraction within 100
• 2, 5 and 10 times tables
• Sharing and grouping
• Halves and quarters
• Money
• Length and measurement
• Properties of 2D shapes
• Simple reasoning

The teacher answer section identifies the diagnostic focus for every Maths question.

Automatic Excel Gap Analysis Tracker Included

This isn’t just a printable quiz.

Enter each pupil’s 1/0 question scores into the Excel tracker and it automatically provides:

• English totals
• Maths totals
• Combined scores
• Question-by-question class gap analysis
• Number and percentage of pupils showing a gap
• HIGH, WATCH and LOW priority flags
• Class snapshot
• Individual pupil profile
• English, Maths and combined percentages
• Question-level individual results
• Secure/Gap indicators
• Suggested next steps for each assessed area

The tracker supports up to 30 pupils and allows an individual pupil to be selected on the Pupil Profile sheet.

Quick to use

The suggested completion time is approximately 15 minutes per subject.

Pupils can complete English and Maths separately or within one short assessment session. After marking, enter the results into the tracker and use the question-level analysis to identify patterns across the class.

What this FREE assessment is designed to do

Use it to:

Get a quick beginning-of-Year-3 snapshot
Identify obvious gaps worth revisiting
Plan short retrieval and recap activities
Identify pupils who may benefit from further checking
Look beyond a single total score to individual areas of knowledge
Help decide where a fuller diagnostic assessment may be useful