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English sample questions (earlier version)

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A free creative writing and english sample paper from North London Collegiate School, linked here from the publisher's own site and published in 2023.

  • Creative writing, English
  • 2023
  • Written answers

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Published by
North London Collegiate School
Paper type
Sample paper
Subjects
Creative writing, English
Exam board or style
School-set paper
Format
Written answers
Year
2023
Answers
Not published
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the school (nlcs.org.uk)
Cataloguer's note. '11+ ENTRANCE EXAM English Sample Questions'. superseded by the Nov 2024 sample. 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 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.

  • Taxonomy skill boundary review
  • Elevated medium-confidence mapping rate
Easy questions
0
Medium questions
5
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 sample questions (earlier version)
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
EnglishIdentify figurative languageLanguage devicesProvisional analysis8.1%2 of 80 / 0 / 0.65
EnglishIdentify textual moodReading comprehensionProvisional analysis8.1%2 of 80 / 0 / 0.65
EnglishIdentify writer viewpointReading comprehensionProvisional analysis8.8%2 of 80 / 0.4 / 0.3
EnglishInfer a character stateReading comprehensionProvisional analysis12.5%1 of 80 / 1 / 0
EnglishInfer implicit meaningReading comprehensionProvisional analysis37.5%5 of 80 / 2.6 / 0.4
EnglishInterpret a word in contextReading comprehensionProvisional analysis12.5%2 of 80 / 1 / 0
EnglishOrganise an argumentWriting compositionProvisional taxonomy6.3%1 of 80 / 0 / 0.5
EnglishPlan for purpose and audienceWriting compositionProvisional taxonomy6.3%1 of 80 / 0 / 0.5

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

Classification coverage: 100% across 9 classified response items from 9 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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