CREST International Spell Bee - Summer Class 3 Previous Year Paper

Preparing for the Class 3 Spell Bee Summer Olympiad? Using previous year papers is a great way to strengthen spelling, vocabulary, and overall language confidence in young learners.

How Previous Year Papers Help

• Includes practice on Spell-o-Spell, Word Connection and Rapid Fire (Audio Round) etc.
• Improves word recognition, listening skills, and contextual understanding.
• Gives students an idea of the real exam format and boosts self-assurance.

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Syllabus:

Level 1: For Level 1, about 80% of questions will come from the word list below.
Level 2: If you reach Level 2, then we believe that you are really good with your spellings. Hence, we are not providing any word list for the Level 2 exam. We would love to see you compete with your peers across India and abroad, and give a brilliant performance.

Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 3

Variety of questions based on the following word list. Question formats are explained in the Spell Bee marking scheme.

Environment: countryside, creature, forest, fossil, gulf, habitat, herd, horizon, moss, plateau, radish, reef, region, structure, thunder, timber, turnip, vegetable, waterfall

Transport and Communication: canoe, cargo, charger, cruise, desktop, ferry, harbour, helicopter, journey, keyboard, laptop, leaflet, microphone, mobile, monitor, postage, radio, railway, rudder, steamer

Body: activity, muscle, pulse, waist

Sports: badminton, basketball, bowling, boxing, coach, cricket, cycling, fencing, football, goal, hiking, hockey, judo, karate, netball, polo, rally, rugby, sailing, skating, skiing, snowboarding, swimming, yoga

Emotions/Requests/Apology/Greetings: affection, amazement, anticipation, awe, boredom, confidence, confusion, contentment, disgust, displeasure, excuse, happiness, joy, mood, regret, sadness, shame, sorry, surprise, sympathy

Quantity: fortnight, handful, hundred, pint, plenty, population, thousand, various

Masculine and Feminine: actor-actress, author-authoress, brother-sister, bull-cow, father-mother, gander-goose, gentleman-lady, grandfather-grandmother, hunter-huntress, husband-wife, king-queen, landlord-landlady, lion-lioness, milkmaid, peacock-peahen, prince-princess, rooster, son-daughter, tiger-tigress, uncle-aunt, waiter-waitress

Prefix: co(exist, etc.) dis(advantage, like, pleasure, honest, etc.), en(large, case, etc.), in(ability, etc.), non(sense, etc.), pre(paid, view, etc.), un(tidy, friendly, etc.), re(discover, do, etc.), sub(title, etc.), tele(vision, etc.), tri(angle, etc.)

Suffix (age, ed, ied, ful, ly): break(age), cover(age), marri(age), peace(ful), percent(age), post(age), laugh(ed), talk(ed), walk(ed), carr(ied), hurr(ied), stud(ied), worr(ied), cheer(ful), harm(ful), thank(ful), play(ful), brave(ly), kind(ly), lone(ly), love(ly), slow(ly)

Adjectives: advanced, agile, agreeable, alive, amusing, ancient, annual, attractive, average, basic, bold, boring, breezy, brilliant, bushy, childish, clear, comfortable, countable, courage, curly, dainty, daring, decorative, delicate, destructive, disgusted, disgusting, distant, domestic, elegant, energetic, enormous, entire, expert, fabulous, faithful, familiar, fantastic, fierce, fortunate, funny, gradual, greasy, gross, harmful, harsh, heavy, important, impossible, intelligent, interesting, irate, jolly, joyous, junior, lively, loose, lovely, loyal, magnificent, marry, mighty, mischievous, modern, mysterious, native, neighbourly, nice, opposite, peaceful, personal, plain, poetic, precious, primary, probable, rare, realistic, responsible, retro, royal, senior, sensitive, serene, shiny, silent, slippery, smart, sorry, special, square, stale, stormy, suitable, swift, tearful, thankful, toothless, unhappy, untidy, whole, worried

Adverbs: completely, correctly, definitely, downstairs, entirely, extremely, lazily, only, opposite, perhaps, proudly, smoothly, sometimes, surely, totally

Verbs: absorb, accuse, activate, adopt, afford, amuse, annoy, appeal, approach, arrange, astonish, attract, belong, blame, blink, bore, borrow, bother, burrow, calculate, capture, carve, celebrate, cling, collect, commit, compete, complain, confess, confuse, congratulate, consider, consist, contain, convince, creep, damage, decay, defend, detect, devote, digest, disappear, discuss, dislike, divide, doodle, dwell, educate, enable, enlarge, erupt, examine, excite, expand, explode, explore, flare, frighten, frown, frustrate, harm, haul, hover, hurt, identify, imitate, improve, inform, intend, knit, launch, lead, locate, lose, mumble, neglect, nourish, offer, owe, perform, plunder, pounce, prevent, quarrel, raise, recall, receive, rely, remove, reside, reverse, revive, scatter, scold, scrub, shrink, spill, spoil, sprinkle, squat, squeeze, stretch, struggle, suppose, touch, treat, unite, untie, wander, whimper, wink, wriggle

Synonyms: accuse-blame, advantage-benefit, alike-same, ancient-old, annoy-irritate, ask-consult, bliss- buy-purchase, childish-silly, courage- bravery, delay-postpone, garbage-trash, gigantic- huge, glitter-shiny, harsh-cruel, interesting-exciting, junk-rubbish, loyal-faithful, musty-smelly, perfect-ideal, precious-valuable, quarrel-fight, rich-wealthy, ruin-destroy, tiny-small

Antonyms: accuse-defend, artificial - natural, attractive - repulsive, bother-calm, broad - narrow, care- neglect, cheap- expensive, confess-deny, dawn-dusk, decrease-increase, delicate-sturdy, flutter-steady, foolish-wise, fresh- stale, funny-boring, glory- shame, inner-outer, interesting-boring, kind-cruel, mighty-delicate, misery-happiness, prevent-allow, spend-earn, scold-praise, store- discard, tiny-big, upset-joyful

Compound Words: afternoon, airport, anyone, anyway, backbone, bedrock, blackboard, blueprint, bookshelf, bookstore, bookworm, campfire, candlestick, cardboard, caveman, clipboard, coastline, daydream, dishwasher, earthquake, everything, eyeball, fireplace, fireworks, forearm, foreword, freedom, haircut, hairpin, handsome, headache, highlight, homesick, household, keyboard, keyhole, lifetime, lighthouse, mailbox, moonlight, newspaper, notebook, outcome, outdoors, padlock, paintbrush, passport, playground, popcorn, sandcastle, screwdriver, seashell, snowflake, suitcase, sunbeam, sunglasses, supermarket, textbook, therefore, toothpaste, underground, uplift, upstream, weekend, whatever, windmill, wristband

Words with Silent Letters: aisle, answer, autumn, breathe, business, column, communication, debt, exhausted, fascinating, fasten, freight, high, honesty, honour, hour, isle, knead, knife, knock, know, numb, patient, rhyme, sigh, sign, soften, stretch, twilight, Wednesday

Double Letter Words: alley, assess, cherry, cobbler, cooking, cucumber, difference, expression, feed, fellow, flannel, follow, gutter, hobby, hood, hook, indeed, lettuce, loose, mutton, passenger, pillow, puppet, room, shallow, sleeve, street, sweep, tooth, valley, volunteer, wallet, wedding, witty, wood, woollen

Plurals: Simply by adding 's' (e.g. pencil-pencils, apple-apples, parrot-parrots, etc.), Adding 'es' to words ending in 'ch' (e.g. batch-batches, speech-speeches, etc.), Adding 'es' to words ending in 's', 'ss', 'x' or 'sh' (e.g. bush-bushes, glass-glasses, box-boxes, wish-wishes, etc.), Adding 's' to words ending in 'y' with a vowel before (e.g. turkey-turkeys, chimney-chimneys, etc.), Replacing 'y' with 'ies' for words ending in 'y' with a consonant before (e.g. city-cities, diary-diaries, etc.), Substituting/adding letters (e.g. loaf-loaves, goose-geese, etc.)

Evil Words (Words likely to be spelt incorrectly): adventure, behaviour, beige, benefit, brownie, calendar, cinnamon, costume, croissant, dramatist, envelope, fahrenheit, feature, gardener, gesture, graduate, librarian, magazine, manual, nursery, phrase, rhythm, scout, shepherd, straight, triumph

Nouns: adapt, adopt, advantage, advice, ambition, anchor, anecdote, anklet, anthem, appearance, appoint, appointment, apricot, asparagus, attention, attitude, author, average, bacon, bacteria, bagel, bargain, barley, belly, binoculars, biologist, blazer, brace, bridge, brief, brotherhood, buckle, burrow, button, buzzard, cable, calculator, canal, candidate, caramel, cardigan, category, cauliflower, celebration, celery, challenge, champion, championship, chandelier, chef, chicken, chill, citizen, city, cleanser, clerk, clothing, coast, comfort, company, compass, conclusion, container, continent, copper, costume, courgette, custom, daffodil, designer, destiny, device, diamond, dictionary, difficulty, dignity, diligence, dimple, disadvantage, disease, distrust, dollar, doorbell, dose, dream, drummer, dusk, earring, echo, embassy, engine, equality, failure, fastener, flaw, fleece, fountain, friendship, fruit, gardener, gasp, gem, glitter, globe, grace, greengrocer, grin, group, habit, height, improvement, individual, inspiration, interest, inventor, item, jewel, journey, jury, justice, kindness, knot, ladder, ladle, leather, library, limit, locket, loss, loyalty, luxury, machine, magnifier, manure, marina, marsh, material, melon, method, misery, moisture, motivation, museum, narrative, nation, necklace, noise, novel, nursery, oatmeal, opponent, ornament, otter, outfit, palace, parakeet, parsnip, patience, pause, peace, pearl, picnic, piece, position, pottery, predator, printer, problem, process, recreation, relative, resident, respect, risk, ruler, scratch, sensitivity, shyness, signal, solution, soul, spectacles, stadium, stair, statue, straight, strand, suite, survey, symbol, theory, thrill, trait, trumpet, vase, vision, voice, volunteer, waitress, wealth, wisdom, witch, wrinkle

Miscellaneous: against, almost, comic, hundred, magic, neither, somewhere, still, together

Section 2

It's a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words

This section will be based on the above-given word list.

Note: The syllabus will also include Word List from Classes 1-2. Upto 20% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com.

Please note: All spelling for the test will follow British English conventions. The Oxford Learner's Dictionary will be used as the primary reference for both spellings and meanings. If a word is not found in this dictionary, it will be considered non-existent for the purposes of the test.

Previous Year Paper Marking Scheme

Previous Year Questions

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Q.1	Choose the word with incorrect spelling:
	a) whisper		b) weight
	c) stappler		d) captivity

Q.2	Choose the word with incorrect spelling:
	a) crescent		b) seperete
	c) thirsty		d) enormous

Q.3	Select the masculine form of the word: mare
	a) filly		b) foal
	c) pony		d) stallion

Q.4	Choose the correct suffix to form a meaningful word: kind
	a) ess		b) id
	c) ness		d) full

Q.5	Select the feminine form of the word: landlord
	a) landess		b) landlady
	c) landwoman		d) landward

Q.6	Form a meaningful word from the given jumbled letters: esiitrcic
	a) crestcise		b) criticise
	c) critisise		d) criticisie

Q.7	Choose the synonym of the word: enormous
	a) ordinary		b) important
	c) massive		d) admire

Q.8	Choose the correct prefix to form a meaningful word: determine
	a) pre		b) non
	c) mis		d) dis

Q.9	Insert the correct letters to form a word: def_n_te
	a) e, i		b) a, e
	c) i, a		d) i, i

Q.10	Choose the correct suffix to form a meaningful word: diction
	a) ary		b) ery
	c) ury		d) ory

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Additional Preparation Resource

1. CREST International Spell Bee (Summer) competition Worksheets Package for class 3 - It is a package of 5 worksheets. The worksheets are in the same pattern as the previous year paper. Hence, very useful for preparation. Existing users can purchase additional practice worksheets by following these steps: Login at https://www.crestolympiads.com/login -> Dashboard -> Additional Practice -> Buy & new users can visit https://www.crestolympiads.com/registration

Note: Don’t forget to download the CREST International Spell Bee (Summer) competition past year paper pdf for class 3.