Marked testpapers were returned to schools last week, but head teachers were only sent details of the thresholds - the marks required to meet the different levels - on Tuesday 5 July.
They hope to have roughly 100 Plastic Logic devices to test with readers this summer, months after the papers stopped delivery of the print newspaper most days of the week.
They had rested a number of key players but while the papers might have hinted such competition was not ideal preparation for the second Test, I look at it from a more positive angle.