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English past paper (2021 entry)

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A free english past paper from Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex 11 Plus, linked here from the publisher's own site and published in 2020.

  • English
  • 2020
  • Written answers

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About this paper

Published by
Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex 11 Plus
Paper type
Past paper
Subjects
English
Exam board or style
CSSE
Format
Written answers
Year
2020 (for 2021 entry)
Answers
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the consortium (csse.org.uk)

Skills classified in this paper

Response items mapped to the pinned Trace Learn 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.

  • Elevated medium-confidence mapping rate
Easy questions
3
Medium questions
16
Hard questions
5

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 past paper (2021 entry)
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
EnglishInfer a character stateReading comprehensionProvisional analysis8.3%2 of 240 / 0 / 2
EnglishInfer implicit meaningReading comprehensionProvisional analysis12.5%3 of 240 / 0 / 3
EnglishRetrieve an explicit detailReading comprehensionProvisional analysis37.5%9 of 243 / 6 / 0
EnglishSelect a synonymVocabularyProvisional analysis41.7%10 of 240 / 10 / 0

Classification coverage: 100% across 24 classified response items from 24 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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