The move follows the Department for Education’s consultation on the plans in the autumn.
The Times reported that ministers were considering a range of tests, including the PIPS baseline assessment, designed by academics at the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University.
This is already used by some primary schools and is designed to be carried out in the first few weeks of children entering Reception.
It includes showing children pictures of a variety of objects and asking them to point to a yacht.
Jan Dubiel, national development manager for training and resource company Early Excellence, said that such tests were ‘dangerous’ and a ‘waste of time’.
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