CREST International Spell Bee - Summer Class 3 Sample Paper

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• Includes challenging words suitable for Class 3 level
• Activities focused on syllables, word usage, and spelling rules
• Supports preparation for CREST Spell Bee in a structured way

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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: creature, forest, habitat, herd, plateau, radish, region, structure, thunder, turnip, vegetable

Transport and Communication: adapter, cruise, desktop, dumper, ferry, helicopter, journey, keyboard, laptop, mobile, monitor, railway, steamer

Body: activity, muscle, waist

Sports: badminton, basketball, bowling, boxing, cricket, hockey, karate

Emotions/Requests/Apology/Greetings: contempt, contentment, crying, disgust, fear, happiness, joy, sadness, surprise, trust

Quantity: fortnight, hundred, plenty, thousand, various

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

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

Suffix (age, ed, ied, ful, ly): break(age), cover(age), marr(age), 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: ancient, annual, attractive, average, bold, boring, brilliant, bushy, childish, comfortable, courage, coward, creeping, creeping, curly, decorative, delicate, destructive, disgusted, distant, domestic, elegant, energetic, enormous, entire, expert, fairness, fatal, fierce, fortunate, funny, funny, gradual, gross, harmful, harsh, heavy, heavy, important, impossible, intelligent, interesting, lively, loose, lovely, loyal, magnificent, magnificent, married, mighty, mischievous, nice, opposite, personal, precious, primary, rare, realistic, responsible, retro, ribbed, sensitive, shiny, silent, slippery, sorry, square, stale, stormy, suitable, suitable, swift, toothless, unhappy, whole, worried

Adverbs: angrily, beautifully, carefully, cheerfully, completely, correctly, definitely, entirely, extremely, fearfully, happily, heavily, lazily, lifelessly, opposite, perhaps, proudly, silently, smoothly, suddenly, surely, totally

Verbs: absorb, accuse, adopt, afford, amuse, annoy, appeal, approach, arrange, arrange, attract, belong, blame, blink, bore, borrow, bother, burrow, calculate, capture, carve, celebrate, cling, collect, confess, confuse, congratulate, consider, consist, contain, convince, damage, decay, defend, digest, disappear, discuss, disdain, divide, enable, enlarge, examine, excite, execute, expand, explode, explore, flare, frighten, frown, frown, frustrate, harm, haul, hurt, identify, imitate, improve, intend, launch, locate, lose, mumble, perform, plunder, pounce, prevent, quarrel, raised, recall, receive, rely, reside, reverse, revive, scatter, scold, scrub, shrink, smile, spoil, spoil, squat, squeeze, stretch, struggle, struggle, suppose, touch, treat, unite, untie, wander, wink, wriggle

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

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

Compound Words: afternoon, airport, anyway, backbone, backside, backward, blackboard, bookshelf, bookstore, bookstore, bookworm, bookworm, campfire, candlestick, cardboard, caveman, daydream, downward, earthquake, everything, eyeball, forearm, foreword, foreword, freedom, haircut, handmade, handsome, headache, highlight, household, keyboard, keyhole, lifetime, mailbox, mailbox, moonlight, newspaper, newspaper, outcome, passport, playground, popcorn, railroad, suitcase, sunglasses, supermarket, textbook, therefore, toothpaste, underground, uplift, upstream, weekend, weekend, whatever

Words with Silent Letters: autumn, breathe, business, column, communication, debt, freight, high, hour, knead, knife, knock, know, patient, sigh, sign, stretch, Wednesday

Double Letter Words: beer, cobbler, cooking, crook, cucumber, difference, expression, feed, fellow, hobby, hood, hooked, indeed, jeep, looked, loose, passenger, puppet, room, shallow, sleeve, street, sweep, tooth, valley, volunteer, wedding, 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, church-churches, 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, brownie, costume, dramatist, envelope, feature, gardener, gesture, graduate, librarian, magazine, manual, nursery, phrase, rhythm, scout, shepherd, straight, triumph

Nouns: adapt, adopt, advantage, advice, ambition, anecdote, anklet, anthem, appearance, appoint, appointment, attention, attitude, average, bacteria, belly, blazer, brace, bribe, bridge, brief, buckle, burrow, button, cable, canal, candidate, cardigan, category, celebration, challenge, champion, championship, chill, cleanser, clothing, coast, continent, costume, custom, device, diamond, dimple, disease, distrust, dollar, dose, dreaming, drummer, dusk, engine, failure, fastener, flaw, fleece, gardener, gasp, globe, grace, greasy, grin, habit, height, individual, jewel, journey, jury, knot, ladder, leather, library, limit, loss, machine, marsh, memorial, method, milkmaid, misery, moisture, narrative, nation, necktie, negro, noise, nursery, opponent, outfit, palace, pause, peace, pearl, picnic, piece, pottery, predator, process, recreation, resident, respect, risk, scratch, signal, solution, spinster, stadium, stairs, statue, straight, straightener, strand, survey, swiftness, symbol, theory, thrill, tragedy, trait, trumpet, ulcer, vision, voice, volunteer, wisdom, witch, wrinkle

Miscellaneous: against, almost, hundred, neither, really, somewhere, still, together

Also on this list: alive, author, basic, cauliflower, celery, coach, comfort, compete, conclusion, countryside, dishwasher, downstairs, dwell, echo, excuse, fabulous, faithful, familiar, glitter, group, inventor, luxury, manure, museum, neglect, notebook, novel, printer, rugby, shame, skiing, special, swimming, waitress

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

Sample Questions

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Q.1	Insert the correct letters to form a word: def_n_te
	a) e, i		b) a, e
	c) i, a		d) i, i

Q.2	Select the masculine form of the word: mistress
	a) sir		b) mister
	c) master		d) lord

Q.3	Choose the correctly spelt word:
	a) magecian		b) electritian
	c) vegitarian		d) politician

Q.4	Select the feminine form of the word: rabbit
	a) rabbitess		b) bunny
	c) buck		d) doe

Q.5	Choose the correct prefix to form a meaningful word: interpret
	a) miss		b) mis
	c) dis		d) un

Q.6	Find the misspelt word in the sentence: The city is beautifully situated on the platue.
	a) city		b) situated
	c) beautifully		d) platue

Q.7	Find the misspelt word in the sentence: The polar bear is an animal that lives in the extreme cold rigeon.
	a) extreme		b) polar
	c) bear		d) rigeon

Q.8	Form a meaningful word from the given jumbled letters: txecpe
	a) eccept		b) expect
	c) exceep		d) excede

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

Q.10	Choose the correct compound word:
	a) blackmale		b) blackmail
	c) blackmele		d) blakmale

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