I have just come back from a music session at a primary school and the place was full of notices saying: "NO ENTRY. SAT'S EXAMS"
My first thought would be - this is wrong!!! - how can SATS have any exams?
But it is interesting - when I worked on a magazine, the editor and I used to argue about this one. If we write "doesn't" we put the apostrophe in to indicate that there is a letter missing.....so one might argue that the apostrophe in SAT'S is correct as it indicates the missing 3 letters "EST"
What do we all think?!
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It used to be done like that, Mishap, but now the more usual style is to write SATs. Not wrong I think, just a bit old-fashioned. As far as I can remember, that is what Lynne Truss says.
Not done to-day (like that hyphen). 
And then there is one school of thought that says they are "Standard Assessment Tasks" ...tests by another name?? 
Exams seems a bit strong for a primary school 
Well I know in Ofsted reports we had to write SATs so it must be right...
Is there any 'right' when speaking about Ofsted?
That settles it then!
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At least they weren't offering "Aberdeen burghers"!!
I have seen the opposite mistake i.e. "the burgers of Calais....." 
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