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FSCE entrance test familiarisation guide for children

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A free mixed subjects familiarisation booklet from Reading School, linked here from the publisher's own site and published in 2026.

  • Mixed subjects
  • 2026
  • Mixed format

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About this paper

Published by
Reading School
Paper type
Familiarisation booklet
Subjects
Mixed subjects
Exam board or style
FSCE
Format
Mixed format
Year
2026 (for 2027 entry)
Answers
Answer material in the document
Hosted by
the school (reading-school.co.uk)
Cataloguer's note. School warns content changes yearly so it is not definitive. Includes answers to the guide’s sample questions only; this is not an answer key to the live entrance test.

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
  • Elevated medium-confidence mapping rate
  • Ambiguous paper grouping
Easy questions
9
Medium questions
11
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 FSCE entrance test familiarisation guide for children
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
MathsSolve a multi-step problemProblem solvingProvisional analysis70%1 of 10 / 0.7 / 0
MathsSubtract whole numbers or decimalsNumberProvisional analysis30%1 of 10 / 0.3 / 0
EnglishPlan for purpose and audienceWriting compositionProvisional taxonomy100%2 of 20 / 2 / 0
Verbal reasoningApply a number code ruleCodesProvisional taxonomy21.4%3 of 141 / 1 / 1
Verbal reasoningComplete a verbal context gapLanguage reasoningProvisional taxonomy35.7%5 of 145 / 0 / 0
Verbal reasoningEvaluate stated factsDeductive logicProvisional taxonomy42.9%6 of 142 / 4 / 0
Non-verbal reasoningCompare visual attributesVisual patternsProvisional taxonomy100%1 of 10 / 1 / 0

Creative-writing prompts classified separately: 5. They are not forced into the objective skill graph or its ratios.

Classification coverage: 100% across 23 classified response items from 23 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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