CREST International Spell Bee - Summer Class 4 Previous Year Paper

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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 4

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

Education: academic, alphabet, competition, curriculum, dialogue, discipline, dormitory, essay, evaluation, examination, experience, geometry, information, instruction, internship, jingle, knowledge, lecture, literature, module, physics, recipient, research, scholarship, semicolon, seminar, subtract, training, tuition, tutorial

Science and Technology: algorithm, amphibian, animation, attraction, axis, biodiversity, biosphere, calibrate, carbon, cobalt, compression, computer, cyberspace, cyclone, data, deforestation, eclipse, ecology, ecosystem, environment, enzyme, epicentre, equator, evolution, firewall, frequency, genetics, geology, germinate, interface, invention, laboratory, malware, measure, microchip, molecule, mutation, nebula, nickel, pixel, processor, radiation, renewable, resistor, resource, robotics, rotation, router, satellite, scientific, server, solar, solstice

Clothing: blanket, nylon, petticoat, polyester, satin, sweatshirt

Aquatic Life: barnacle, clownfish, cuttlefish, haddock, halibut, herring, jellyfish, manatee, mullet, oyster, prawn, puffin, sardine, squid, tuna

Occupation: actress, blacksmith, builder, businessman, carpenter, editor, electrician, engineer, fisherman, goldsmith, hairdresser, hostess, jeweller, judge, lawyer, mason, mechanic, musician, narrator, photographer, pianist, plumber, poet, politician, reporter, sportsman, surgeon, trainer, wrestler

Sports: archery, athletics, cyclist, discus, diving, gymnastics, javelin, lacrosse, midfield, skateboarding, snooker, softball, surfing, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling

Transport and Communication: airline, autopilot, browser, lorry, minibus, monorail, newsflash, roadway, tablet, telephone, tricycle

Nouns: acceleration, acorn, agency, agenda, agony, agreement, agriculture, albatross, alert, allowance, ancestor, anniversary, apartment, archipelago, arena, association, assumption, attraction, audience, availability, avenue, baggage, baton, blunder, boulder, canyon, captivity, century, chamber, chapter, charity, chimney, circular, circumstance, cleaner, combustion, community, competition, complaint, concern, conflict, content, contestant, conversation, crater, creativity, crumb, cupboard, curiosity, decision, delight, delivery, delta, desire, diesel, dinosaur, disaster, disbelief, discussion, disorder, displacement, disrespect, distress, dog, dune, earl, ease, emphasis, enjoyment, entrance, equator, equipment, executive, explorer, fable, fervour, fiction, focus, fright, frontier, gain, generosity, gorge, government, grocer, grotto, guilt, hardship, haste, haven, image, impact, inability, inference, innocent, jealousy, kestrel, kingdom, kinship, kneecap, label, lad, leisure, limb, magnetism, maintenance, mammoth, management, mangrove, mansion, master, mattress, meadow, melody, memory, menace, minority, misfortune, mistrust, novelist, oasis, oracle, orchard, osprey, ounce, paradox, pavement, performance, pesticide, photograph, pioneer, placement, pleasure, portion, prediction, preparation, prevention, pride, purpose, qualifier, quality, quantity, quarter, quest, reflection, refugee, rental, represent, response, ridge, routine, saffron, seasoning, semicircle, semitone, servant, shield, signature, silence, slumber, sorrow, source, souvenir, sow, spirit, squad, stardom, subtitle, subtotal, summit, surface, tapestry, telegram, thicket, threat, tornado, tour, tourist, tradition, treatment, tripod, union, variety, venture, visitor, voyage, weaver, whimsy, witness, zenith

Prefix: auto(close), de(activate), de(fuse), de(generate), dis(agree), dis(allow), dis(appointed), dis(belief), dis(continue), dis(honest), dis(lodge), dis(obey), dis(order), dis(placement), dis(respect), fore(cast), fore(head), fore(warn), im(port), im(possible), in(ability), in(complete), in(definite), in(flexible), in(secure), mid(life), mis(behave), mis(fortune), mis(judge), mis(lead), mis(place), mis(understand), over(hear), pre(cast), pre(cede), pre(determine), pre(historic), re(build), re(discover), re(unite), re(write), semi(automatic), semi(circle), semi(colon), semi(final), semi(tone), sub(marine), sub(merge), sub(title), sub(total), sub(tract), tri(cycle), tri(pod), un(aware), un(believable), un(certain), un(common), un(conscious), un(even), un(fair), un(impressed), un(known), un(necessary), un(predictable), un(sure), uni(directional), uni(fy), uni(lateral), uni(on), uni(verse)

Suffix (able, al, ance, ant, ence, est, ful, ial, ion, ish, ize, less, ly, st): agree(able), present(able), price(less), reach(able), depend(able), comfort(able), suit(able), accident(al), origin(al), politic(al), rent(al), natur(al), form(al), accept(ance), perform(ance), account(ant), contest(ant), toler(ant), differ(ence), exist(ence), refer(ence), infer(ence), sil(ence), fast(est), high(est), low(est), delight(ful), skill(ful), wist(ful), financ(ial), part(ial), president(ial), prevent(ion), child(ish), styl(ish), general(ize), modern(ize), hope(less), rest(less), use(less), worth(less), hopeful(ly), natural(ly), pleasant(ly), adamant(ly), bad(ly), usual(ly), simple(st), tour(ist), apart(ment), agree(ment), govern(ment), enjoy(ment), treat(ment), manage(ment), excite(ment), king(dom), free(dom), star(dom), bore(dom), wit(ness)

Adjectives: aggressive, airborne, alien, anxious, appropriate, ashamed, asleep, attentive, awkward, carefree, circular, clumsy, complete, confusing, considerable, consistent, creative, critical, dappled, deceptive, deliberate, delicious, delightful, dependable, depressing, description, desolate, disappointed, disastrous, dishonest, doubtful, dramatic, dutiful, educational, efficient, electric, equal, essential, exact, expensive, exterior, extraordinary, financial, flexible, fluent, formal, fragile, frequent, furious, genius, genuine, graceful, guilty, hallowed, harmonious, healthy, heroic, hopeless, horrible, humble, incomplete, inflexible, insecure, instant, interior, intuitive, invisible, inward, masterful, mature, melodic, modest, mutual, noble, outstanding, parallel, partial, peculiar, plentiful, pointless, polite, positive, prehistoric, presentable, presidential, priceless, public, quaint, radiant, recent, restless, rural, satisfied, scary, several, severe, shabby, solitary, spare, specific, strange, sturdy, tactful, terrible, tidy, timid, tolerant, tragic, typical, unaware, unbelievable, uncertain, uncommon, unconscious, uneven, unimpressed, unknown, unnecessary, unpredictable, unsure, useless, usual, vacant, visible, vivid, weary, weighty, wistful

Adverbs: beneath, indeed, midway, overseas, somehow

Verbs: accelerate, accomplish, announce, appreciate, arise, ascend, assign, assist, associate, assure, baffle, blend, blossom, cancel, chatter, collapse, communicate, comprehend, concentrate, concern, conclude, construct, contribute, deactivate, debate, defy, degenerate, deliver, demonstrate, descend, develop, differ, disagree, disallow, disclose, discontinue, dislodge, disobey, distract, distribute, eliminate, embrace, emerge, endure, enrich, entertain, envy, exclaim, exist, expect, forbid, forewarn, gaze, gleam, graze, hail, import, increase, indicate, inspire, introduce, irritate, manufacture, meander, misbehave, misjudge, mislead, misplace, misunderstand, negotiate, obey, overhear, permit, plead, postpone, pour, preach, precede, prepare, proceed, propel, quiver, recommend, rectify, rediscover, reduce, relax, renew, represent, request, rescue, resist, retreat, reunite, rewrite, ruffle, scrape, scroll, shatter, sneeze, spread, squabble, starve, strive, succeed, summon, surf, surrender, survive, swallow, tickle, twirl, twitch, unify, urge, vanish, verify, vibrate, weave, whittle, withdraw

Synonyms: ability-capacity, bliss- pleasure, cease-stop, firm-strong, freedom- liberty, gather-collect, giggle-laugh, hermit- recluse, honest-faithful, horrible-terrible, error-blunder, opportunity-chance, plenty-abundance, ponder-consider, prompt-punctual, reject-deny, reward-prize, round-circular, sincere-honest, stable-steady, wonderful-amazing, wrong-incorrect

Antonyms: bitter-sweet, decline-accept, defend-harm, definite-indefinite, domestic- wild, exterior-interior, fortunate-unfortunate, gloomy-cheerful, greedy-charitable, inhale-exhale, intentional-accidental, merry-serious, patient-agitated, polite-impolite, present- absent, punishment- reward, strange-familiar, triumph-defeat, ugly-beautiful, wholesome-harmful

Compound Words: afterthought, beehive, blackbird, blackcurrant, bodyguard, bookcase, brainstorm, briefcase, copyright, crossword, database, downpour, eyesight, fingerprint, forecast, gingerbread, grassland, greenhouse, hallway, mainland, meanwhile, motorway, password, peppermint, quicksand, rainfall, scoreboard, teaspoon, thunderstorm, underpass, waistcoat, wetland, wheelchair, withstand, wonderland, workshop

Words with Silent Letters: ballet, chasm, colleague, edge, foreign, gherkin, glisten, guard, heir, island, knit, length, nestle, often, receipt, strength, though

Double Letter Words: clatter, gossip, hurry, lagoon, mammal, messy, offend, passage, possible, saddle, seepage, summary, syllabus, vacuum

Masculine and Feminine: bachelor-maid, boar-sow, bridegroom-bride, drake-duck, drone-bee, duke-duchess, emperor-empress, headmistress-headmaster, heir-heiress, hero-heroine, horse-mare, nephew-niece, policeman-policewoman, priest-priestess, stallion-mare, fox-vixen, wizard-witch

Evil Words (Words likely to be spelt incorrectly): access, accommodation, accurate, admittance, ancestor, anxiety, aquarium, bachelor, beginning, budget, campus, capable, chemical, committee, computer, disappoint, duchess, hygiene, kaleidoscope, khaki, labyrinth, necessary, odyssey, plentiful, temporary, yacht

Miscellaneous: afterwards, altogether, degree, instead, storage, unless

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 1-3. 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 correct prefix to form a meaningful word: fortune
	a) un		b) dis
	c) des		d) mis

Q.2	Insert the correct letters to form a word: fas_inat_d
	a) c, e		b) s, a
	c) c, a		d) a, s

Q.3	Select the feminine form of the given word: bachelor
	a) lady		b) maid
	c) woman		d) unmarried

Q.4	Choose the correct suffix to form a meaningful word: accept
	a) age		b) ege
	c) ace		d) ance

Q.5	Choose the antonym of the word: decline
	a) accept		b) deny
	c) refuse		d) incline

Q.6	Choose the correct compound word:
	a) grasshoopper		b) banchmark
	c) breakthrough		d) bookbiender

Q.7	Choose the synonym of the word: mutter
	a) murmur		b) muster
	c) gather		d) elaborate

Q.8	Select the correct spelling for the image:
	a) literature		b) litereture
	c) litareture		d) litarature

Q.9	Select the correct spelling for the image:
	a) mangetism		b) megnatism
	c) magnatesm		d) magnetism

Q.10	Form a meaningful word from the given jumbled letters: tisoyreneg
	a) genetically		b) generosity
	c) generating		d) generally

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Additional Preparation Resource

1. CREST International Spell Bee (Summer) competition Worksheets Package for class 4 - 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 Spell Bee (Summer) competition past year paper pdf for class 4.