Personalised assessments are Welsh Government online assessments which assess learners’ skills in reading and numeracy. They are taken by pupils in Years 2–9 in schools in Wales. The purpose of the assessments is to help support progression in reading and numeracy skills.

Pupils complete 4 personalised assessments each academic year (usually during the summer term in Ysgol Cynwyd Sant):

1. Welsh reading
2. English reading
3. Numeracy procedural
4. Numeracy reasoning

After learners have completed these assessments, schools have access to feedback on learners’ skills, progress, age-standardised scores, and a range of reports to help plan teaching and learning.

Personalised assessments are taken on-line and are adaptive, meaning that questions are selected based on the responses to previous questions. This provides a tailored assessment experience for each learner and will help all learners develop their skills through understanding what they can do, the things they may need to work on, and their next steps.

Please remember that a score from a personalised assessment is just one piece of information about how your child’s skills are developing.

Example questions can be found on HWB (https://hwb.gov.wales/) under the Personalised Assessment tab.