CREST International Spell Bee - Winter

About CREST International Spell Bee Winter Competition

CREST International Spell Bee (Winter 2021) is India’s first Online Spelling Assessment for classes 1-8 which assesses students on the basis of Meaning, Spelling and Pronunciation of the words in English language. Hence, it will help students to foster their lexical development which forms the basis of English language.
Other important points to note about CREST International Spell Bee (Winter 2021) are:

• The assessments have been carefully designed by a team of English language experts.
• India’s first online proctored Spell Bee exam (Winter 2021).
• Online 'Get, Set, Spell!' round.
• One level of exam.
• Objective-type test that the students need to complete in 60 minutes.
• The dictionary which will be used for reference is Oxford Learner's Dictionary. This will be w.r.t. spellings & meanings. In case, if the word is not found in this dictionary, then it is assumed that this word does not exist.
• The accent used in all the audio questions will be Indian.

The exam consists of two sections:

• Section-1: Spell Bee (55 minutes) - Multiple Choice Questions
• Section-2: Get, Set, Spell! (5 minutes) - Audio based questions. The student needs to hear the sentence and write the spelling asked

Why CREST International Spell Bee (Winter 2021)?

Can we imagine living in a muted world or a world where there is no defined meaning for the words we are speaking? It would be a chaos and meaningless world. Wouldn't it be? Hence, we all do realise the importance of all the words that we read, write or speak on a daily basis in our day to day life. And this even proves that without proper words, our life would be very difficult.

For building the foundation of our language skills even knowing the basic words like 'a', 'the', etc. are important. Even though there isn’t a strong link between a word spelling and intelligence but spellings are essential to comprehend things. Knowing spellings is that one skill which stays with us for our entire life.

In our day-to-day life we must have heard this sentence quite often that "his/her vocabulary is so good". Now, how to make our vocabulary strong? For this, Spell Bee examinations are necessary. They enhance students' vocabulary and making them capable of putting across their thoughts more clearly with uninvited advice. Studying for Spell Bee examinations makes us realize our potential mistakes in confusing spellings like Accommodate, Misspell, Pronunciation, Calendar, Privilege, Embarrass and many more.

Difference between Traditional Spell Bee and CREST International Spell Bee Competition

Guidelines

• There are separate question papers for each and every class.
• The exam is conducted online only using laptop, desktop or tablet with a high speed Internet connection and webcam. Also, headsets are required because the test will have a few audio-based questions. Please note that the test can't be taken using a mobile device.
• For students of class 1, the parent/teacher can assist the child in guiding through the questions.
• In case the registration is not through a school, the student will have to take the exam from home.