Common Entrance Examination - Spring Term 2008 - Independent Schools Examinations Board - English Paper 1 (11+)

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Core subjects with mark schemes for the 11+ Common Entrance Examination set by the Independent Schools Examinations Board for the Spring Term 2008, supplied by Galore Park Publishing. The booklet includes sections for English Paper 1 (with examination date and instructions), English Paper 2, Mathematics, and Science, followed by an English reading passage set in a village and school environment. The provided English Paper 1 section includes exam-time guidance on reading, planning, writing time, sentence requirements, handwriting, spelling, and punctuation.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages52

Reading Time2 h 11 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

English Paper 1

English Paper 2

Mathematics

Science

Common Entrance Examination Core subjects with mark schemesSpring Term 2008 o EnglishoMathso Science Independent Schools Examinations Board Independent SchoolsExaminations Board 11+Common EntranceExamination Core subjectswith mark schemes Spring Term 2008 Supplied on behalf of ISEB by Galore Park Publishing Ltd19/21 Sayers Lane,Tenterden,Kent TN306BWwww.galorepark.co.uk Independent Schools Examinations BoardCover image:Ableimages Typography by Typetechnique,LondonPrinted by Lego S.p.A Italy ISBN:9780903627801 All rights reserved:no part of this publication may be reproduced,stored ina retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise,without either the priorwritten permission of the copyright owner or a licence permitting restrictedcopying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1P OLP. First published 2008,reprinted 2010 Details of other Galore Park publications are available at www.galorepark.co.uk ISEB Revision Guides and publications may also be obtained from Galore Park. Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………iv English Paper 1 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1 English Paper 2 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 Mathematics …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 ……………………………………………………………25 Science ………………………………………………………… Introduction The examination papers in this booklet were set for the Spring Term 2008 Common EntranceExamination by the Independent Schools Examinations Board(ISEB).The syllabus for eachsubject is available from the ISEB website,www.iseb.co.uk.The book itself can be written in andsuggested answers are provided in the accompanying mark scheme book.Other sessions andsubject ranges are available to purchase from Galore Park,www.galorepark.co.uk The copyright for this material belongs to the Independent Schools Examinations Board andphotocopying is strictly forbidden without permission. # Independent SchoolsExaminations Board COMMON ENTRANCE EXAMINATION AT 11+ENGLISH PAPER 1 Monday 14 January 2008 Please read this information before the examination starts. | You have 5 minutes'reading and planning time.
● After that you may start writing your answers when you are ready to do so.You have
40 minutes for writing.
● Answer in full sentences.
● Use your best handwriting and take care with spelling and punctuation. | | --- | Read the passage below and answer the questions which follow it. A teenage girl called lone is putting up posters in her village to advertise ajumble sale she has planned. lone walked across the road to the primary school.She had hoped it would be locked upstill,for the holidays,and that she could just put her poster up on the gate without askingMiss Casterpool's permission.lone had never cared for Miss Casterpool,and MissCasterpool had never cared for her.But the tell-tale bottle-green mini was parked on the5kerb just outside,and the narrow side door was open.The summer holidays had clearlyended for the primary children.If Miss Casterpool was back today,they would be backtomorrow,and lone herself would be next.Sighing,she walked across the tarmacplayground and through the side door. The sick feeling hit her at once,as she had known it would.For every time she returned,for10one reason or another,to these corridors and washrooms,classrooms and cloakrooms,shewould hear noises and smell smells and see scratches in the woodwork that in all the sixyears she had spent at the school she had never even noticed,but which now she had leftmade her gasp with a sudden aching sense of renewed familiarity and of loss. lone now walked through the corridors,raising herself on her toes to peep through all the15small square glass panes set high in the doors,until she found Miss Casterpool in theinfants’classroom,sorting fla

FAQs

How long is the reading and planning time for English Paper 1?

English Paper 1 provides 5 minutes for reading and planning time before writing answers.

What writing instructions are given for answers in English Paper 1?

Answers must be written in full sentences, using the best handwriting with careful spelling and punctuation.

What is the main task in the English Paper 1 section?

Read the provided passage and then answer the questions that follow it.

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