Spell Bee Competition (Summer) for Class 4

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Spell Bee competition for class 4 is conducted each year for students to test their vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation in English. Spell Bee competition is a unique way to familiarize students with new words and vocabulary as they get exposed to root words. CREST Olympiads organizes the International Spell Bee Summer competition for class 4 students. The best part of the exam is that it consists of an audio round where candidates attempt to listen and write down the spelling correctly assigned to them. CREST Olympiads conducts online Spell Bee exams for class 4. It is one of the best ways to teach the English language to kids.

a. Every board is welcome in the CREST Spell Bee (Summer) for class 4, in India and abroad, with entry through a registered school or individually.

b. Two levels are held. A Level 2 place is earned by finishing Level 1 inside the top 55.56% of the Class 4 field, or by being among the three top-scoring children registered by a school that has over 25 pupils of the class taking the exam.

c. A webcam keeps watch while your child writes the exam at home. Your child must be alone, with the face fully in view, and must not use a mobile, a calculator or any other electronic device.

d. A laptop, desktop or tablet works if its screen measures more than 11.5 inches and a webcam is attached; Windows machines need Windows 8 or above, and Macs and iPads are fine. Pair it with a stable internet line and the latest Google Chrome (Edge or Firefox also work, but Safari does not); phones cannot be used. The Rapid Fire section uses audio, so test the sound beforehand.

e. Indian students pay Rs. 275 and overseas students USD 15, which also buys two practice tests that nobody is obliged to take.

f. Want to see the screens first? Take the free trial.

1. Words for school and science. Education and Science and Technology add words such as academic, curriculum, ecosystem, gravity and satellite, so the list reaches well beyond everyday home words.

2. Sea creatures by name. Aquatic Life brings dugong, haddock and puffin, names a child may know from pictures but may never have written. Clothing comes back with blanket, slacks and sweatshirt.

3. More words, better vocabulary. One Class 4 review values CREST as a place where the young generation picks up new words and builds vocabulary; a further Class 4 review sees it as somewhere kids learn, practise and dig into what they already know. More reviews are on the testimonials page.

4. A Class 4 milestone on record. Top spot internationally in the Class 4 Spell Bee (Summer) of 2023-24, then again in Class 5 in 2024-25: that double is recorded on one Hall of Fame profile.

CREST International Spell Bee (Summer) registration for class 4 can be done by students on their own or by the school.

The school has to fill in the form present here: https://www.crestolympiads.com/register-school, and it will be contacted within 48 working hours with the next steps.

Students who register separately from school & want to appear for the online Spelling Bee exam for class 4 can follow these simple steps:
1. Go to the browser and copy-paste this link: https://www.crestolympiads.com/registration
2. The registration form pops up.
3. Fill in all the registration form details.
4. Select the exam at the bottom of the details filling section in the registration form you wish to appear in.
5. Read the instructions carefully.
6. Make the payment.
7. Registration is complete.

Note:

1. Spelling Bee Individual registrations by students are accepted.

2. Students who have not done registration through school will have to take exams from home. The individual participating should have a webcam and a good internet facility. Use a laptop, desktop or tablet with a screen larger than 11.5 inches: a Windows computer or tablet running Windows 8 or above, a Mac, or an iPad. Phones cannot be used. Use the latest version of Google Chrome (Edge or Firefox also work); the exam cannot be taken on the Safari browser. The exam is monitored through a webcam.

CREST publishes the Spell Bee syllabus for class 4 in two sections, starting with the word list:

Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 4

• Education
• Science and Technology
• Clothing
• Aquatic Life
• Occupation
• Sports
• Transport and Communication
• Nouns
• Prefix
• Suffix (able, al, ance, ant, ence, est, ful, ial, ion, ish, ize, less, ly, st)
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Verbs
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Compound Words
• Words with Silent Letters
• Double Letter Words
• Masculine and Feminine
• Evil Words (Words likely to be spelt incorrectly)
• Miscellaneous

Section 2

Rapid Fire, a listening round: the audio says a word and your child writes it down. Its words are the ones in Section 1.

A sample of the Class 4 words: archery and gymnastics (Sports), blacksmith and carpenter (Occupation), foreign and neighbour (Words with Silent Letters), and cease-stop (Synonyms).

Look out too for nephew-niece, wheelchair, syllabus and rapidly, each tucked under a longer heading. Science and Technology alone runs from eclipse and equator to malware and router, mixing nature with computing.

The Class 1-3 word lists are included in the Class 4 syllabus as well. About 80% of Level 1 comes from the word list, up to 20% of questions may use other words, and Level 2 has no list.

Against Class 3, Class 4 introduces Education, Science and Technology, Aquatic Life and a longer Suffix heading (able, al, ance, ant, ence, est, ful, ial, ion, ish, ize, less, ly, st). Clothing (last listed in Class 2) and Occupation (last listed in Class 1) come back. Dropped since Class 3: Environment, Body, Emotions/Requests/Apology/Greetings, Quantity, Plurals and the shorter Suffix heading.

Both levels use the Class 3 pattern of 60 one-mark questions in an hour, 60 marks in total and no penalty for errors. Listening carries the most weight, with 20 Rapid Fire questions. Word relationships (Word Connection) take 12 and word building (Word Makeup) 9, while catching single-letter errors (Word Cookie) takes 7 and Spell-o-Spell 6; jumbled letters (Mingle-Mangle) and picture questions (PictureSpeak) have 3 each. The Spell Bee marking scheme for class 4 describes each section.

The exam dates for CREST International Spell Bee Competition (CSB) for Class 4 for the Academic year 2026-27 are as given below:

Note: Check Olympiad exam dates for other CREST Olympiads subjects as well.

The exam fee is INR 275 for students studying and enrolling from India. For students studying and residing outside of India, the fee is USD 15.

A six-week plan works well in Class 4, with your child doing most of it and you checking spellings at the end of each session.

Fortnight one: the new and returning themes. Pick five words a day from Science and Technology, Education, Aquatic Life and Occupation (plumber, with its silent b, is a good test).

Week 3: word building. Word Makeup has 9 questions on suffixes, prefixes and compound words, so practise adding mis- to behave, semi- to circle, -able to comfort and -less to rest.

Week 4: the tricky headings. Read the silent-letter words aloud (island, often, receipt) and test the Evil Words, such as necessary, committee and beginning, until they come out right every time. Quiz Masculine and Feminine pairs like duke-duchess, emperor-empress and hero-heroine.

Week 5: Rapid Fire and older lists. Dictate words from the Class 1-3 lists at a brisk pace, since Rapid Fire is a third of the paper.

Week 6: full class 4 Spell Bee sample papers at one minute per question, then the free trial. Want something on paper as well? CREST sells a Class 4 Spell Bee (Summer) workbook through its Olympiad books page.

The class 4 Spell Bee cut-off & rankings are generally released for students to understand the minimum marking criteria. This lets students know the minimum marks required to pass the examination. The cut-offs are out after the actual examination is conducted. Participants can take a look at the cutoff on the CREST Olympiads website.

The Spell Bee competition answer key for class 4 is released on the answer key dates shown on the exam schedule. This way of offering students with the answer key enables them to understand their mistakes and rectify them in the coming exams. It also allows them to predict their scores before the actual declaration of the results. These answer keys can be checked on the dashboard of the website.

When are the class 4 Spell Bee results out? Allow up to 10 days from the closing Level 1 answer key date for Level 1 results; Level 2 results are due inside a month of their own last answer key. The login created at registration is what you need to view them.

Once your child qualifies, Level 2 decides everything else, including ranks and medals.

International Ranks 1, 2 and 3 are honoured with an Achiever's Trophy each. A gold medal rewards any one of three things: a percentile of 96 or more, a top-ten place in the zone, or a top-three finish among a school's own registered children where over 25 from the class took part. Below gold sit silver (percentile 93 up to 96) and bronze (90 up to 93). A Merit Certificate is attached to each medal, and everything is sent to the school or home address that was filled in at registration.

Children outside the medal bands are recognised too: a Merit Certificate is sent to everyone placed in the top 25%. Looking ahead, Class 5 brings a longer paper of 80 questions and three new sections.

The students are recognized for their performance and it is one of the great ways to encourage them to do such great things again and again. CREST Olympiads awards top-performers of class 4 for their great accomplishment in CREST Olympiads Spelling Bee competition exam. There are awards for 50% of the students. Check Olympiad prizes in detail.

1. What are spelling words for 4th graders?

Words like environment, epicenter, equator, evolution, firewall, genetics, geology, gravity, interface, laboratory, malware, measure, ocean, planet, processor, radiation, renewable, resistor, resource, robotics, rotation, router, satellite, scientific, server, transpiration, etc. are included in the syllabus of class 4 CREST International Spell Bee (Summer). To get a better understanding of the Spell Bee words for grade 4, students are requested to visit the Spell Bee syllabus page of CREST Olympiads.