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English specimen paper C

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A free english specimen paper from Dulwich College, linked here from the publisher's own site.

  • English
  • Written answers

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28 August 2026
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10 pages, 334 KB
Source page
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About this paper

Published by
Dulwich College
Paper type
Specimen paper
Subjects
English
Exam board or style
School-set paper
Format
Written answers
Year
Undated by the publisher
Answers
Not published
Hosted by
the school (dulwich.org.uk)
Cataloguer's note. Legacy specimen paper still live on the school domain. 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.

  • Catalog subject disagreement
Easy questions
0
Medium questions
14
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 specimen paper C
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
EnglishIdentify textual moodReading comprehensionProvisional analysis6.3%1 of 160 / 1 / 0
EnglishIdentify writer purposeReading comprehensionProvisional analysis6.3%1 of 160 / 1 / 0
EnglishInfer a character stateReading comprehensionProvisional analysis12.5%2 of 160 / 1 / 1
EnglishInfer implicit meaningReading comprehensionProvisional analysis6.3%1 of 160 / 0 / 1
EnglishInterpret a word in contextReading comprehensionProvisional analysis37.5%6 of 160 / 6 / 0
EnglishRetrieve an explicit detailReading comprehensionProvisional analysis31.3%5 of 160 / 5 / 0

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

Classification coverage: 100% across 17 classified response items from 17 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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Subject-based preparation

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