Familiarisation booklet · Dame Alice Owen's School

English familiarisation paper 1 (2021)

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A free english familiarisation booklet from Dame Alice Owen's School, linked here from the publisher's own site and published in 2021.

English
2021
Written answers

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Published by: Dame Alice Owen's School
Paper type: Familiarisation booklet
Subjects: English
Exam board or style: School-set paper
Format: Written answers
Year: 2021
Answers: Not confirmed in this catalogue
Hosted by: the school (damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk)

Cataloguer's note. Listed as 'English Familiarisation Paper 1'. No mark scheme published for this one. Not currently linked from the page it was found on, so it may be an older upload. Current official page labels the linked English mark scheme as Paper 2; this is Paper 1 and no Paper 1 mark scheme was found. Keep answer availability false.

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.

Catalog subject disagreement

Easy questions: 2
Medium questions: 12
Hard questions: 4

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 1 (2021)
Subject	Skill tag	Concept	Classification	Within-subject share	Items carrying tag	Easy / medium / hard weighted items
English	Identify a theme	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	11.8%	2 of 17	0 / 0 / 2
English	Identify textual mood	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	5.9%	1 of 17	0 / 1 / 0
English	Infer a character state	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	29.4%	5 of 17	0 / 3 / 2
English	Infer implicit meaning	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	11.8%	2 of 17	0 / 2 / 0
English	Interpret a word in context	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	29.4%	5 of 17	0 / 5 / 0
English	Retrieve an explicit detail	Reading comprehension	Provisional analysis	11.8%	2 of 17	2 / 0 / 0

Creative-writing prompts classified separately: 1. They are not forced into the objective skill graph or its ratios.

Classification coverage: 100% across 18 classified response items from 18 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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