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CLASS
SAMPLE PAPER
CREST Spell Bee (CSB)
Syllabus for CSB is available at https://www.crestolympiads.com/csb-syllabus
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Pattern and Marking Scheme
Section Name Section Details Number of
Questions
Spell-o-Spell Test your spelling skills 8
Word Connection Find antonyms, synonyms, masculine, feminine 8
and other alternative words
Mingle-Mangle Form meaningful words from jumbled letters 4
PictureSpeak Answer image-based questions 4
Word Cookie Catch single letter spelling errors 12
Word Chain Link words based on a certain sequence 4
Grand total 40
Each question carries 1 mark (Total duration: 60 min.)
Spell-o-Spell
1. From the given alternatives, choose the correct spelling:
(a) frieten (b) frigten
(c) frighten (d) fryten
Spell-o-Spell
2. From the given alternatives, choose the correct spelling:
(a) soldeir (b) soldier
(c) soljer (d) soldair
Spell-o-Spell
3. From the given alternatives, choose the correct spelling:
(a) sqweek (b) squeek
(c) squaek (d) squeak
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Spell-o-Spell
4. From the given alternatives, choose the correct spelling:
(a) starve (b) sterve
(c) staurve (d) sturve
Spell-o-Spell
5. From the given alternatives, choose the incorrect spelling:
(a) subtraction (b) surprise
(c) devide (d) smile
Spell-o-Spell
6. From the given alternatives, choose the incorrect spelling:
(a) strange (b) quiet
(c) sprain (d) gaint
Spell-o-Spell
7. From the given alternatives, choose the incorrect spelling:
(a) stout (b) speek
(c) shout (d) grain
Spell-o-Spell
8. From the given alternatives, choose the incorrect spelling:
(a) grasshopper (b) monster
(c) thunder (d) caterpiller
Word Connection
9. Choose the correct antonym of the given word:
stale
(a) fresh (b) weak
(c) harsh (d) old
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Word Connection
10. Choose the correct antonym of the given word:
fortunate
(a) favourable (b) bright
(c) unlucky (d) hopeful
Word Connection
11. Choose the correct synonym of the given word:
gentle
(a) rude (b) pleasant
(c) strong (d) sharp
Word Connection
12. Choose the correct synonym of the given word:
wonder
(a) astonish (b) lucky
(c) confuse (d) horror
Word Connection
13. Select the masculine of the given word:
hen
(a) chicken (b) goose
(c) rooster (d) fowl
Word Connection
14. Select the masculine of the given word:
duck
(a) drake (b) duke
(c) duckling (d) doe
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Word Connection
15. Select the feminine form of the given word:
emperor
(a) queen (b) emperess
(c) monarch (d) empress
Word Connection
16. Select the feminine form of the given word:
bull
(a) buffalo (b) cow
(c) bullock (d) calf
Mingle-Mangle
17. Form the meaningful word from the given jumbled letters:
lyfttubre
(a) betturfly (b) batterfly
(c) buttertfly (d) butterfly
Mingle-Mangle
18. Form the meaningful word from the given jumbled letters:
twaeres
(a) sweater (b) swaeter
(c) sweter (d) swetar
Mingle-Mangle
19. Form the meaningful word from the given jumbled letters:
gwthie
(a) whight (b) weighte
(c) weight (d) wieght
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Mingle-Mangle
20. Form the meaningful word from the given jumbled letters:
pdrrigoe
(a) porirdeg (b) porridge
(c) porirdge (d) porrigde
PictureSpeak
21. Select the correct spelling for the given image:
(a) sqirrel (b) sqiurrel
(c) squirril (d) squirrel
PictureSpeak
22. Select the correct spelling for the given image:
(a) leopard (b) leapord
(c) lepord (d) leapard
PictureSpeak
23. Select the correct spelling for the given image:
(a) velture (b) valchure
(c) vulcher (d) vulture
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PictureSpeak
24. Select the correct spelling for the given image:
(a) telivition (b) telivison
(c) television (d) televison
Word Cookie
25. Insert the missing letter in the given word:
daught_r
(a) e (b) u
(c) a (d) h
Word Cookie
26. Insert the missing letter in the given word:
torto_se
(a) o (b) a
(c) e (d) i
Word Cookie
27. Insert the missing letter in the given word:
cott_ge
(a) e (b) a
(c) u (d) i
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Word Cookie
28. Insert the missing letter in the given word:
h_mmingbird
(a) i (b) a
(c) u (d) e
Word Cookie
29. Find the extra letter in the given word from the given alternatives:
pomoegranate
(a) o (b) e
(c) a (d) g
Word Cookie
30. Find the extra letter in the given word from the given alternatives:
jackket
(a) a (b) c
(c) e (d) k
Word Cookie
31. Find the extra letter in the given word from the given alternatives:
penguine
(a) i (b) u
(c) e (d) g
Word Cookie
32. Find the extra letter in the given word from the given alternatives:
nepheiw
(a) e (b) i
(c) h (d) p
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Word Cookie
33. Find the misspelt word in the given sentence:
Hippopotamus is a large semi-acquatic mammal.
(a) hippopotamus (b) acquatic
(c) mammal (d) large
Word Cookie
34. Find the misspelt word in the given sentence:
An idle brane is a devil's workshop
(a) workshop (b) idle
(c) brane (d) devil's
Word Cookie
35. Find the misspelt word in the given sentence:
Girafe is the tallest living terrestrial animal.
(a) tallest (b) girafe
(c) animal (d) terrestrial
Word Cookie
36. Find the misspelt word in the given sentence:
The king had a buetiful and brave daughter.
(a) brave (b) daughter
(c) king (d) buetiful
Word Chain
37. Complete the word sequence in the given question:
babysitting, nursery, school, _______________
(a) home (b) college
(c) park (d) playground
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Word Chain
38. Complete the word s equence in the given question:
village, city, state, ______________.
(a) town (b) capital
(c) country (d) world
Word Chain
39. Complete the word sequence in the given question:
seed, soil, plant, ______________.
(a) tree (b) fruit
(c) flower (d) shrub
Word Chain
40. Complete the word sequence in the given question:
root, stem, leaf, ______________.
(a) fruit (b) flower
(c) plant (d) tree
Answers
1. (c), 2. (b), 3. (d), 4. (a), 5. (c), 6. (d), 7. (b), 8. (d), 9. (a), 10. (c), 11. (b), 12. (a),
13. (c), 14. (a), 15. (d), 16. (b), 17. (d), 18. (a), 19. (c), 20. (b), 21. (d), 22. (a), 23. (d),
24. (c), 25. (a), 26. (d), 27. (b), 28. (c), 29. (a), 30. (d), 31. (c), 32. (b), 33. (b), 34. (c),
35. (b), 36. (c), 37. (b), 38. (c), 39. (a), 40. (b)
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