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Specimen paper · King's College School, Wimbledon

English Section A specimen paper (11+ / pre-test, 2020 exam)

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A free english specimen paper from King's College School, Wimbledon, linked here from the publisher's own site and published in 2020.

  • English
  • 2020
  • Written answers

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About this paper

Published by
King's College School, Wimbledon
Paper type
Specimen paper
Subjects
English
Exam board or style
School-set paper
Format
Written answers
Year
2020
Answers
Not published
Hosted by
the school (kcs.org.uk)
Cataloguer's note. Confirmed live PDF on the school's domain. format inferred from the school's written 11+ English. 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.

Easy questions
0
Medium questions
4
Hard questions
1

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 Section A specimen paper (11+ / pre-test, 2020 exam)
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
EnglishDistinguish contraction and possessionGrammarConfirmed automated10%2 of 50 / 0.3 / 0.2
EnglishForm a pluralSpellingConfirmed automated6%1 of 50 / 0.3 / 0
EnglishMark a sentence boundaryPunctuationConfirmed automated10%1 of 50 / 0.5 / 0
EnglishMatch subject and verbGrammarConfirmed automated13%2 of 50 / 0.65 / 0
EnglishPunctuate a listPunctuationConfirmed automated8%1 of 50 / 0.4 / 0
EnglishPunctuate direct speechPunctuationConfirmed automated15%2 of 50 / 0.75 / 0
EnglishResolve a homophoneVocabularyConfirmed automated12%2 of 50 / 0.4 / 0.2
EnglishResolve an irregular spellingSpellingConfirmed automated12%2 of 50 / 0.2 / 0.4
EnglishSelect a pronoun formGrammarConfirmed automated4%1 of 50 / 0.2 / 0
EnglishUse capital lettersPunctuationConfirmed automated10%2 of 50 / 0.3 / 0.2

Classification coverage: 100% across 5 classified response items from 5 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.

Schools this paper is for

  • King's College School, Wimbledon

    Wimbledon, London, Greater London. School website

Subject-based preparation

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