CREST International Spell Bee - Winter Class 5 Previous Year Paper

Preparing for the Class 5 Spell Bee Winter Olympiad? Practising with previous year papers is an excellent way to boost your child's command of spelling, vocabulary, and grammar skills.

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• Includes advanced topics like Word Twins, Crossword and Get, Set, Spell! etc.
• Improves word application, spelling precision, and contextual understanding.
• Gives real exam practice, helping students become confident and exam-ready.

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Syllabus:

Section 1: Spell Bee Words for Class 5

There are a variety of questions based on the following word list and about 70%-80% of questions will come from this list. Different format of questions are available here. The words are alphabetically arranged.

Abdomen, absence, accelerator, accent, access, accordion, acquire, adage adjustable, adore, aerobics, alimentary, allergies, allowance, altar, alter, although, amnesia, amputation, amusingly, anaemia, animated, annual, antenna, antibiotics, antique, antiquity appreciation, approaching, arboreal, armadillo, arouse, artificial, ascent, aspersion, assume, asthma, astride, attire attribute, autograph avalanche, aversion, Banquet, barely, barley, beacon, beige, believer, benefit, beverage, bilateral, binge, blemish, blizzard, blooper blunder, bounce, boycott, brainstorm, brilliant briskness, budge, burdensome, Calories, camouflage, canopy, capacious, carnation, carnival cathedral, cease, censor, changeable, chaos, characterization, chuckle, clarinet, cling, , cola nut, colander, collateral, comestible, communicable, compass, compassionate, Compliant complicated, compost, concerned, concession, conclusion, condensation, congestion, consent, considerable, consistent, consort, conspire, constable, constant, construction, consumer, contented, contention, contest, continuity, contour, contrast, contribute, convenience, conversion, conviction, coral, cordial, correlative, counterfeit, crave, crescent, cringe, cruiser, crunch, crux cuisine, culinary, cumin, curtail, Dagger, dazed decorative, defensive, delirious, delivery, demur, departure, depot, derogative, descent, designer, desperate, destination, destruction, detestable, device devise devotee, devotional, diabetes, diffident, diligent, dingy, discard, discriminatory, dismal, disorder, disparate, dispatch, disposal, dissident, domesticated, donation, dope, drastic, dreaded, dribble, dromedary, drowsy, drudge drum, Eagerness, earnestly, edible, electrolyte electromagnetic, elegance, elegy, elementary, elevate, elevation, elicit, embarrassed, emigrant, empower, encounter, endanger, endangered, enhance, enlarge, enriching, enthusiastic, entrust, envelope, epicure, estimate, eternal, ethical, ethics, eulogy, evaluate, exalted, exasperated, excessive, exclamation, exclusive, excretory, exhaustion, exile, exorbitant, expectation, experienced, experimental, explicit, exposure, extension, extinction, extract, extravagance, extreme, extrovert, Facade, facilitate, falcon, fallacy, fanfare, fascinate, fatal, faultless, faulty, favourable, fennel, fierce, flair, flammable, floundering, flutter, focussed, foliage, foretell, foreword, foster, fragility, fragment, fraternity, fringe, fruitful, fumble, furnace, furore, Gabble, gait, gambol, garnish, generation, grapple, grudge, gullible, Haggard, hallmark, hamper, harass, harmony, hasten, hatred, hectic, herald, heretic, hew, hibernation, hideous, hinge, hoarse, hone, horizontal, hostile, huddle, hurdle, hypothesis, Identical, identification, idyllic iguana illegible, illicit, imaginary, imbibe, immediate, immunity, impair, impartial, impasse, impede, impractical, impunity, inaugurate, incite, incriminate, inculcate, Indefinable, inept, inequality, inertia, infer, infirmary, infliction, informative, infringe, infuriate, ingenuous, insignificant, insincere, insinuate, inspire, instigate, integrity, intensity, intercept, interfere, intrude, invariable, invent, invention, inverted investigation, invincible, irrelevant, Jab, Jocular, jovial, joyful, joyless judicious, Kindle, kinetic, knave, knotty, Laconic, lament, landmark, languid, latte, laudable, lavender, leach legion, leisurely, lethal, lethargic, liberty, limerick, listless, longevity, lucid, lunar, lustre, luxurious, Magnanimous, magnify, malice, maltreat, manor, marinate, martyr, mascot, memorable, menace, mercy, mesh, metallurgy metamorphosis, microbes, mirthless, misfire, monarch, monotonous, moped, morality, morose, mortar motionless, mustered, mutter, mystify, mythical, Nail-biting, nail clipper, nasal, natal nourishing, novelty, nuisance, Obedience, obese, obliterate, oblivion, observation, obsolete, obstruct, occupation, onus, opera, opine, opossum, opposition, oppressive, orangutan, ordinary, oregano, orthodox, oscillate, outburst, overdue, overturn, Pace, pacify, palpable, pamper, pamphlet, pangolin, panicky, panorama, paragraph, parody, particular, pedestal, pelt, pelvic, pendulum, perceptible, perfume, peril, perishable, permanent, perpetual, pestle, pillion, placid, platypus, pledge, plenteous, pliers, possessed, potential, poverty, practice pragmatic, practice, predatory, predecessor, preface, presence, preservative, presume, prison, probably, proceed, prophecy, prophet, protest, protractor, provident, prowess, punctuation, purview, Quantum, quarrelsome, Rainforests, raven, reciprocal, rectitude, reef, referee, refined, reign, rein reliable, relieved, relinquish, rendition, repellent, repose, resort, respiratory, responsibility, restore restrain, resurgent, retain, retarded, revamp, revealing, rhea rigorous, rustle, résumé, Saffron, sarcastic saunter, saute, scalpel, scavenger, scent, sceptic, scorn, scoundrel, scribble, scruffy, scythe, seasoning, sensor sentimental, serious, serpentine, servile, sewing, shimmered, shocking, shortage, shuffle siege, significant, situation, snare snuggle, solace, solemn, spanner, sparkling, spate, specialist, spirit, sprawling, squalid, stationary, stationery, sternly, stingy, stomp, strife, struggle, suffocate, superlative, survey, swivel, synthesiser, Tangible, tarnish, tasteless, taunt, temper tempting, tenable, tentacle, tenure, thoroughly, thoughtless, threadbare, threshold, thrilled, thrive, tiresome, tolerate, tonne, topography, toucan, traditional, transition, transpire, treason, treasury, trombone, tsunami, turmoil, tuxedo, twinge, Ultra, unconfined, undergrowth, unleash, unravel, unremarkable, unsteady, unusual, unwind, uproar, utilise, Vacillate, valediction, vase, vegetation, vertical, vicarious, violet, vocalise, Wary, windpipes, withdraw, wither, withhold, withstand, woodwind, worthy, wreath, wrench

Section 2

It's a Get, Set, Spell! section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the word asked. The accent used in the audio files is Indian.
This section will be based on the above-given word list.

Upto 20%-30% 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.

Sample Paper Marking Scheme

Previous Year Questions

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Q.1	Choose the word that will fit in the blank: Cancer is not a _______ disease, and someone who had it cannot pass it on to another person.
	a) communication		b) communicate
	c) communicating		d) communicable

Q.2	Find out the number of correctly spelt words in the given set of words and multiply the answer by '2'. punctuation, origano, luxurious, folige, enriching, culinary
	a) 6		b) 10
	c) 4		d) 8

Q.3	How many meaningful words can you make by adding an 'o' to the following (without changing the order of the letters)? canpy, colandr, concssion, cruisr, diabtes
	a) 1		b) 2
	c) 3		d) 4

Q.4	Correct the incorrectly spelt word in the given sentence and choose the option with its meaning: I was frightned to get on the roller coaster, but overcame by fear and rode with my sister.
	a) a track at a fairground that goes up and down very steep slopes		b) to succeed in dealing with
	c) feeling fear		d) the bad feeling that you have when you are in danger

Q.5	Find out the number of misspelt words in the given set of words and multiply the answer by '2'. memorable, pamphlett, platipus, prophecy, protractor, boycott
	a) 2		b) 6
	c) 4		d) 8

Q.6	Find out the number of misspelt words in the sentence: I consider myself a bargain scavenger because I am constantly on the lookout for deals.
	a) 5		b) 2
	c) 0		d) 1

Q.7	Match the words with their synonyms: 1. starving  A.   dull 2. pale  B.   hungry 3. vanish  C.  evaporate
	a) 1-C, 2-A, 3-B		b) 1-B, 2-A, 3-C
	c) 3-C, 2-B, 1-A		d) 1-A, 3-B, 2-C

Q.8	Choose the correct sequence of the jumbled letters to form a meaningful word: E H L O I S T 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	a) 5 3 4 2 1 7 6		b) 7 4 6 3 5 2 1
	c) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1		d) 2 4 6 7 5 3 1

Q.9	Choose the meaning of the word that will be formed by adding ‘a’ and ‘e' to one of the following (in the same order): 1. r_v_n 2. pr_ph_t 3. pl_dg_ 4. op_r_
	a) shiny and black		b) a person who claims to know what will happen in the future
	c) to formally promise to give or do something		d) a dramatic work in which all or most of the words are sung to music

Q.10	Choose the option in which the following letters will fit in the given order: i, i, i
	a) _dent_f_cation		b) _mm_d_ate
	c) _n_qual_ty		d) _nform_t_ve

Your Score: 0/10

Additional Preparation Resource

1. CREST International Spell Bee (Winter) competition Worksheets Package for class 5 - 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 (Winter) competition past year paper pdf for class 5.