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English familiarisation paper

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A free english familiarisation booklet from Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex 11 Plus, linked here from the publisher's own site.

  • English
  • Written answers

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About this paper

Published by
Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex 11 Plus
Paper type
Familiarisation booklet
Subjects
English
Exam board or style
CSSE
Format
Written answers
Year
Undated by the publisher
Answers
Separate answer resource
Hosted by
the consortium (csse.org.uk)
Cataloguer's note. Marking sheet is headed 'CSSE 2015 Entry Test 1 ENGLISH', so first used for 2015 entry. Still live but no longer listed on /practice-material/, where the familiarisation link on /examination/ redirects. Not currently linked from the page it was found on, so it may be an older upload.

Skills classified in this paper

Response items mapped to the pinned Smart Cub Learning skill graph. Multi-skill questions split their weight between tags.

This paper-level analysis needs review

The document reached terminal classification, but the response-item analysis still carries one or more review conditions. Its granular tags are visible as uncertain paper-level evidence and are never used as trend evidence or for rising and falling signals.

  • Taxonomy skill boundary review
  • Low-confidence skill mapping
  • Ambiguous paper grouping
  • Catalog subject disagreement
Easy questions
4
Medium questions
30
Hard questions
1

Paper-level difficulty counts include every classified response item, including creative-writing prompts. Sitting-year difficulty trends compare objective response items only, so those totals use a different, explicitly labelled denominator.

Published skill tags for English familiarisation paper
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
EnglishIdentify figurative languageLanguage devicesProvisional analysis3.9%1 of 260 / 1 / 0
EnglishInfer a character stateReading comprehensionProvisional analysis11.5%3 of 260 / 3 / 0
EnglishInfer implicit meaningReading comprehensionProvisional analysis15.4%4 of 260 / 3 / 1
EnglishInterpret a word in contextReading comprehensionProvisional analysis53.9%14 of 260 / 14 / 0
EnglishRetrieve an explicit detailReading comprehensionProvisional analysis15.4%4 of 264 / 0 / 0
Verbal reasoningComplete a word with a letterWord formationProvisional taxonomy44.4%4 of 90 / 4 / 0
Verbal reasoningForm a derived wordWord formationProvisional taxonomy55.6%5 of 90 / 5 / 0

Classification coverage: 100% across 35 classified response items from 35 detected. Ratios describe classified items only, so any uncovered detected items are not silently treated as another skill. This profile is automated and is not represented as independent human review. Confirmed, provisional taxonomy, and provisional analysis labels show which claims can safely contribute to trend evidence.

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