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English past paper (2022 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 2021.

  • English
  • 2021
  • 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
2021 (for 2022 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.

Easy questions
10
Medium questions
15
Hard questions
3

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 (2022 entry)
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
EnglishInfer a character stateReading comprehensionConfirmed automated17.9%5 of 280 / 4 / 1
EnglishInfer implicit meaningReading comprehensionConfirmed automated10.7%3 of 280 / 1 / 2
EnglishInterpret a word in contextReading comprehensionConfirmed automated10.7%3 of 280 / 3 / 0
EnglishResolve an irregular spellingSpellingConfirmed automated17.9%5 of 280 / 5 / 0
EnglishRetrieve an explicit detailReading comprehensionConfirmed automated25%7 of 285 / 2 / 0
EnglishSelect a synonymVocabularyConfirmed automated17.9%5 of 285 / 0 / 0

Classification coverage: 100% across 28 classified response items from 28 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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