Spell Bee Competition (Winter) for Class 2

Give your child a trusted way to develop strong language skills with the CREST Spell Bee Winter Exam for Class 2. This expert-designed test builds reliable knowledge in difficult areas. Through this global-level exam, your child gets a fun way to learn new words. The test helps them use language to share thoughts clearly and well. Our expert questions build confidence and deep understanding for better self-expression.

The standard exam for evaluating word meaning, spelling, and pronunciation in the English language is the CREST International Spell Bee (Winter). For students in class 2, the CSBW exam is organized at the national and international levels. CREST Olympiads administers only online Spell Bee International examinations. Read through the article to know about the Spelling Bee exam in detail!

a. Children of every board can enter in Class 2, whether CBSE, ICSE, a State Board or another, in India or overseas.

b. From Class 2 your child takes the exam alone. CREST allows someone to sit with the child only up to Class 1, and an adult beside a Class 2 child can lead to disqualification.

c. You can register through your child's school if it is taking part. If it is not, register your child yourself; CREST also takes direct sign-ups.

d. On exam day your child needs a laptop, desktop or tablet (screen over 11.5 inches) with a webcam, a stable internet connection and the latest Google Chrome (Edge or Firefox also work; Safari cannot be used). Windows devices need Windows 8 or above, while a Mac or an iPad is fine. Phones and other mobile devices are not supported. Keep your child's face fully visible to the camera throughout.

e. In Class 2 the Spelling Bee competition is a one-level exam. Ranks and awards are worked out from that one paper.

f. Each subject costs Rs. 275 in India, or USD 15 outside India. Two practice tests online come with it, and taking them is up to you.

1. A bigger, busier word list. Class 2 words stretch from ambulance, backpack and bandage to whiteboard, wicketkeeper and zinnia, which means plenty of longer words and compound words to practise.

2. Working alone for the first time. Without an adult beside them, children practise reading every question for themselves and managing the full hour.

3. Ranks start here. Class 2 is the first CSBW class with ranks and with medals based on percentile and zonal rank. A published Class 2 testimonial values CREST as a way for children to see how well they are doing.

4. Useful and innovative. Another Class 2 review finds CREST a worthy, useful and innovative platform for kids.

CREST International Spell Bee (Winter) registration for class 2 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 2 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.

Class 2 keeps the Class 1 paper exactly as it was: the same seven formats, the same question counts, an hour and 40 marks. The vocabulary is what moves on. Only about a dozen words (cartoon, comb and wash among them) appear on both the Class 1 and Class 2 lists; the rest of the Class 2 words are new.

The Spell Bee Winter syllabus for class 2 has one section, Spell Bee Words for Class 2. About 70%-80% of the questions are drawn from it, and up to 20%-30% may come from outside it. Here it is in full:

A: acting, action, adjust, adult, advice, against, alive, allow, allowance, along, aloud, ambulance, ankle, annoyed, answer, anthem, anything, asleep, august, avoid, awake, award. B: back, backpack, badge, balm, bandage, bangle, batch, batsman, batter, battery, beach, beast, bedcover, before, begin, belief, bell, bicycle, bitterness, bleat, bloat, bluebell, blur, boast, bodyguard, bonnet, bored, boring, borrow, bottlebrush, bowler, brake, breath, breeze, brink, buckle, butcher, buttermilk. C: capsule, car, cartoon, catch, chair, cheap, chimney, Chinese, chopsticks, chunks, classify, classroom, clergy, clever, climber, clothes hanger, clothesline, cloudy, cobweb, coil, collar, collect, comb, confused, corner, cornflakes, correct, costly, cough, coward, crackle, crate, creak, creeper, cricketer, crumble, cuckoo, curtain, cushion. D: dahlia, daisy, dancing, dead, December, deck, defeat, delete, diaper, diet, different, dimple, dodge, double, doughnut, dove, down, dragon, dragonfly, drain, drawing, dream, drill, drip, drizzle, drove, drown, drums, dumb. E: earlobes, earthworm, ebb, elf, energy, England, enough, evening, exciting, exercise, expensive. F: fabric, factory, faint, fairy, famous, feast, feat, February, fielder, filthy, firecracker, firefly, fisher, fishing, fist, flamingo, flash, florist, flour, flow, flute, foam, foggy, follow, frame, France, fresh, frown, fumble, furniture, further. G: gain, garage, globe, gloomy, gobble, grab, grandchild, grate, grater, great, greet, grin, grizzle, groan, grow, grumble, grumpy, guest, guitar. H: hand, hardworking, hastily, hazy, headlight, heavenly, helm, hen, highway, Hindi, hollow, hollyhock, honey, hook, hose, human. I: India, iris, Italian. J: Japanese, jealous, jumpsuit, jumpy. K: keeper. L: ladder, ladle, leap, leather, library, lifetime, lightening, lightning, locate, lollipop, look, lose, loss, louse, lucky. M: machine, mailbox, mailman, mandolin, medicine, mermaid, midnight, mirth, mist, mittens, moist, moisture, moonwalk, mound, mourn, multiply, mumble, mushroom, music. N: nanny, necklace, necktie, newborn, news, newsletter, nibble, norm, nothing, notice, November. O: October, ostrich, own. P: padding, paid, pain, pane, parcel, partner, pea, peacock, peck, pecker, peeler, penguin, pepper, perch, perform, petal, petrol, petunia, pickle, pillow, playground, poke, present, prior, profit, prune, punch, puppy. Q: question. R: race, rainy, raise, raisin, rapid, rashly, regular, remark, remove, revise, reward, rhinoceros, rinse, road, roam, rodent, rotten, Russia, rust. S: sale, sapling, Saturday, saucer, saxophone, scene, scoop, scooter, September, shabby, shallow, sharpener, shawl, shore, similar, singing, sizzle, slam, sleeves, snatch, soggy, solar, sonnet, sorrow, spacious, Spain, spin, sponge, spring, squash, stadium, stair, stay, still, stood, stork, storm, strain, streetlight, stuff, stupid, subtract, sunshine, supper, supple, sure, surprised, sway, sweet corn, swoop. T: tangle, termite, textbook, thank, their, thieves, thinking, thread, thrice, throb, throne, throwback, Thursday, tiny, toaster, tonight, toothache, tracksuit, tractor, treat, tricycle, triple, trouble, trumpet, twice, twig. U: umpire, undress, unicorn, upset. V: vanilla, vegetative, violin, vulture. W: wallet, walnut, wash, washbasin, watch, weak, wealthy, weapon, weather, Wednesday, week, welcome, wheel, wheelchair, whether, whinny, whiteboard, wicket, wicketkeeper, wild, willow, wind, within, without, wood, wool, worst, worth, would, wreck, wrong. Y: yourself, yummy. Z: zinnia.

Expect British spellings throughout. CREST uses the Oxford Learner's Dictionary as its primary reference for both spelling and meaning, and a word the dictionary does not contain is treated as non-existent.

The 40 questions carry one mark each, with nothing taken off for wrong answers:

• Word Champ, testing word knowledge: 8
• Spell Spies, testing spelling: 8
• Spellacadabra, writing the correct word: 6
• Jumble Tumble, unscrambling letters into words: 5
• Pictospell, answering from an image: 5
• Sound Check, pronunciation: 4
• Word Fusion, new words and compound words with a suffix or prefix: 4

The exam dates for CREST International Spell Bee Competition (Winter) (CSBW) for Class 2 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.

Give the preparation about six weeks, with four or five short sessions a week. Because your child will be on their own in the exam, let them read the questions and choose the answers while you only check afterwards.

Take the list one or two letters per session. Your child can copy each word into a notebook, mark the ones they get wrong and come back to those the next day. The CREST word pages for single words, such as capsule and cricketer, add a meaning and sample sentences.

Compound words are a good way into Word Fusion: backpack, whiteboard and wicketkeeper are all on the list, and children can split them and build new ones.

Week five is for the class 2 Spell Bee sample papers. Finish one sample paper in a single sitting, with a clock, so your child gets used to 40 questions in 60 minutes, which is 90 seconds a question.

Class 2 also has its own Spell Bee (Winter) workbook on the Olympiad books page. Let your child try the free trial test too, since it copies the real exam screen. Book the slot at least two days in advance, and remind your child that a wrong answer loses nothing, so no question should be left blank.

CREST Olympiads will publish the CREST Spell Bee Winter cut-off marks for the class 2 students. The CREST International Spell Bee cut-off and rankings will be available online at the CREST Olympiads website. There will be a separate Spell Bee cut-off for each class.

The Spell Bee answer key contains correct answers to all of the exam questions. Students can estimate their scores in the CREST International Spell Bee Winter (CSBW) Olympiad exam. Students can access the CREST Spell Bee answer keys by logging in with the credentials & going to the dashboard section.

Class 2 Spell Bee results are released within a month of the last answer key date. Your registered username and password open the dashboard, where the result sits in the Performance section.

This is the first year of ranks. Children are ranked on marks. When two have equal marks, the quicker finisher goes first; if that is also equal, the one born later goes first, and anyone still level shares the rank. Ranks are normalised at the end because sessions on different days use different papers.

Medals go to the top 15% of students, Merit Certificates to the top 25% and Honourable Mention certificates to the top 60%, and the world's top 3 receive an Achiever's Trophy. See Awards & Recognition for the full criteria.

Next year the paper changes shape: Class 3 adds the listening section, Get, Set, Spell!, and goes up to 50 questions.

The students are recognized for their performance and it’s one of the great ways to encourage them to do such great things again and again. CREST Olympiads awards top performers of Classes 2 to 8 with trophies, medals and certificates based on their international, school and percentile ranks in the CREST Spelling Bee (Winter) competition exam. Senior KG and Class 1 students are not ranked; those scoring 60% or more receive a Star Medal and Merit Certificate, and every participant receives a digital participation certificate. Students can check the Olympiad awards & recognition in detail.

1. Where will the CREST Spell Bee exam be held?

To attempt the online CREST International Spell Bee exam the student should have a functional laptop, desktop, or tablet (with a screen larger than 11.5 inches) and a reliable Internet connection. The Internet connection should be stable, and the device should have the most recent version of Google Chrome (Edge or Firefox also work; the exam cannot be taken on Safari). Mobile devices are not permitted to be used to take the exam. Schools registered with CREST Olympiads can only conduct the CREST Spell Bee Winter exam.

2. What is the CSBW examination pattern for class 2?

The CSBW exam for Class 2 is a single round (there is no Get, Set, Spell! section for Senior KG to Class 2):

Total Questions: 40

Marks: 40 (each question carries 1 mark).

Exam Duration: 60 minutes