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The CREST International Spell Bee 2022-23 is India’s first online spelling evaluation for kids in grades 1 to 8, and it evaluates pupils based on their understanding of the English language, meaning, spelling and pronunciation. It will assist pupils in expanding their vocabulary, which is the foundation of English. We will discuss the CSB exam 2022 details in this article.
Exam Highlights and Important Dates
The participants in the CREST International Spell Bee are asked to spell a wide range of words with varying degrees of difficulty. Contestants in the Spell Bee must learn the spellings of words as they appear in dictionaries.
The contest began in the United States and is now practised in a number of other nations across the world. Only English-speaking nations have Spell Bee competitions.
- The assessments were methodically created by a group of English-speaking professionals.
- The rapid-fire round takes place via the internet.
- The CSB consists of two stages of testing.
- The CSB objective-type test has a time limit of 60 minutes.
Summer Exam Dates
| Conducting Body | CREST Olympiads |
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| Exam Name | CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) |
| CSB (Summer) Practice Test Dates |
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| CSB (Summer) Practice Test 2 Answer Key Release Dates | 16 June 2022 till 17 June 2022 |
| CSB (Summer) Level 1 Exam Dates |
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| CSB (Summer) Level 2 Exam Date | 17 August 2022 |
| CSB (Summer) Level 1 Answer Key Release Date | 21 July 2022 till 22 July 2022 |
| CSB (Summer) Level 2 Answer Key Release Date | 19 August 2022 till 20 August 2022 |
| CSB (Summer) Result Dates | TBA |
CSB Registration
The CREST International Spell Bee is open to students in grades 1 to 8. Students can enrol through their school or independently. A prospectus comprising school registration forms will be sent to all schools that have registered for the CREST Olympiad. Students that are interested should contact their school’s coordinator.
Individual registration is also available for students. On the official CREST Olympiads website, students can apply for individual registration.
CSB Exam Pattern
| Section Name | Section Details | No. of Questions per Class | |||
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| 1 & 2 | 3 & 4 | 5 & 6 | 7 & 8 | ||
| Spell-o-Spell | Test your spelling skills | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Word Connection | Find antonyms, synonyms, masculine, feminine, and other alternative words | 8 | 12 | 8 | 8 |
| Word Makeup | Identify the right suffix, prefix, and compound words | – | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Mingle-Mangle | Form meaningful words from jumbled letters | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Picture Speak | Answer image-based questions | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Word Cookie | Catch single letter spelling errors | 12 | 7 | 10 | 10 |
| Word Melody | Write correct words based on phonetics | – | – | 4 | 4 |
| Word Ensemble | Check your knowledge of idioms, proverbs, etc. | – | – | 8 | 8 |
| Mathlish | Identify incorrect words while having fun with Maths | – | – | 8 | 8 |
| Word Chain | Link words based on a certain sequence | 4 | – | – | – |
| Rapid Fire | Hear and write the spelling of words quickly | – | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| Grand Total | – | 40 | 60 | 80 | 8 |
CSB Syllabus
The degree of difficulty varies depending on the class. The syllabus for primary schools includes themes such as animal and bird spellings, colours, STEM concepts, antonyms, and so on. The CSB syllabus incorporates subjects from Wren and Martin’s book as well as the High School English Grammar and Composition book for higher grades. Here are the class-wise syllabus details for the CSB Exam 2022
CSB Class 1 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
|---|---|
| Animals | Alligator, bear, bull, camel, cat, cow, crab, deer, donkey, elephant, fish, fox, frog, goat, horse, lion, monkey, mouse, ox, pig, rabbit, shark, sheep, snail, tiger, turtle, wolf, yak and zebra |
| Birds | Cock, crane, crow, dove, duck, eagle, goose, hen, owl, parrot, peacock, pigeon, sparrow, swan and turkey |
| Animals: homes, young ones, and sound | Bear-cub, bee-buzz, buffalo-grunt, camel-desert, cat-kitten, cat-meow, cow-calf, crow-caw, deer-fawn, frog-croak, horse-colt, lion-roar, mouse-burrow, parrot-cage, pigeon-coo and sheep-baa |
| Colours | Black, blue, brown, green, khaki, orange, pink, purple, red, violet, white and yellow |
| Body parts | Arm, cheek, chest, chin, ear, eye, finger, hair, hand, knee, leg, lip, mouth, nail, neck, nose, teeth and tongue |
| Food items | Biscuit, bread, butter, carrot, cheese, chilli, chocolate, corn, egg, maize, milk, pasta, potato, rice, salad, salt, sandwich, sauce, soup, sugar, tea and tomato |
| Household items | Bowl, chair, cooker, cooler, flask, glass, hanger, heater, jug, kitchen, lamp, mirror, mug, napkin, needle, plate, spoon, table and towel |
| Occupation | Actor, artist, cook, dancer, dentist, doctor, driver, farmer, nurse, painter, pilot, policeman, postman, sailor, singer, soldier, tailor, teacher, waiter and writer |
| Relationships | Aunt, brother, child, children, daddy, father, mother, parent, sister, son, uncle and wife |
| Trees, plants, flowers, or fruits | Apple, bamboo, banana, banyan, berry, coconut, cotton, grain, grape, lemon, lily, lotus, mango, marigold, oak, olive, orange, palm, papaya, pine, rose and watermelon |
| Clothing | Belt, boot, boots, cap, coat, frock, gown, hat, jeans, pants, sandals, shirt, shoes, shorts, slippers, socks, suit and tie |
| Science | Aeroplane, air, animal, branch, climate, cloth, cloud, drain, flower, gas, heat, hygiene, jungle, leaf, liquid, matter, mountain, natural, nature, nest, pencil, people, plant, rainbow, root, school, season, solid, stem and volcano |
| Adjectives | Active, afraid, beautiful, better, big, bitter, brave, bright, calm, careless, different, dull, empty, favourite, flat, giant, huge, hungry, joyful, little, loud, naughty, nervous, pretty, proud, quick, quiet, ripe, sharp, tall, tasty, tired, warm and young |
| Verbs | Aim, bake, bathe, bleed, bring, check, climb, continue, crawl, create, cross, cry, dance, decorate, describe, destroy, dream, drink, enjoy, float, guess, imagine, jump, laugh, learn, listen, play, pretend, prick, read, recite, scream, shout, sing, sleep, stick, study, swing, talk, throw, trick, trouble, wake, wipe, wish, write and yawn |
| Synonyms | Afraid-scared, big-large, blank-empty, calm-silent, crawl-move, create-build, evil-bad, giant-huge-large, hide-cover, learn-study, merry-happy, pretty-beautiful and wash-clean |
| Antonyms | Above-below, bad-good, big-small, brave-fearful, clean-dirty, clever-stupid, continue-stop, dark-bright, empty-full, fat-thin, happy-sad, in-out, joy-sorrow, late-early, laugh-cry, listen-ignore, poor-rich, quiet-noisy, slow-fast, up-down and warm-cold |
| Double letter words | Balloon, beep, bell, breeze, cell, coffee, door, egg, feel, food, kitten, letter, marry, merry, pattern, puzzle, ribbon, riddle, ripple, scissors, speech, summer, toffee, tool, tree, umbrella and wheel |
CSB Class 2 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
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| Animals | Buffalo, cheetah, chimpanzee, giraffe, gorilla, hare, hippopotamus, jaguar, kangaroo, leopard, pony and squirrel |
| Birds | Canary, hornbill, hummingbird, kingfisher, kiwi, magpie, ostrich, robin, vulture and woodpecker |
| Insects | Ant, beetle, butterfly, caterpillar, cockroach, grasshopper, honeybee, housefly, spider and worm |
| Animals: Homes, young ones, and sound | Bear-growl, cow-moo, dog-bark, donkey-bray, duck-quack, elephant-trumpet, fox-cub, goat-bleat, horse-neigh, horse-stable, lion-cave, monkey-infant, mouse-squeak, owl-owlet, pig-grunt, sheep-lamb and sheep-shed |
| Body parts | Calf, claw, elbow, eyebrow, eyelash, foot, forehead, heel, jaw, nostril, ribs, shoulder, stomach, toe and wings |
| Relationships | Classmate, cousin, daughter, family, grandchild, grandfather, grandmother, grandparent, grandson and husband |
| Food items | Burger, cabbage, cereal, cookie, cupcake, honey, pumpkin, spice and wheat |
| Trees, plants, flowers, or fruits | Blueberry, cauliflower, daisy, grapes, jasmine, peach, pear, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberry, sunflower and tulip |
| Clothing | Gloves, jacket, scarf, skirt, stockings, sweater, trousers and uniform |
| Everyday items | Basket, bench, bicycle, box, breakfast, brick, brush, bucket, building, carpet, carriage, chain, eraser, loaf, packet, picture, plank, prize, quilt, skate, spade, stack, stamp, tram and water |
| Our environment | Church, circus, clown, court, crew, field, frost, game, garden, ground, lawn, magic, market, morning, park, place, prisoner, river, scrap, sea, shade, shadow, shape, shell, shower, smoke, space, splash, stone, string, thorn, track, window and yard |
| Adjectives | Another, awake, bare, blind, blunt, bulky, careful, caring, clean, dark, dirty, eager, early, fair, firm, gentle, grey, happy, jolly, keen, kind, large, lazy, mad, plump, queer, sad and second |
| Preposition/Adverbs | Always, behind, below, everywhere, from, inside, into, outside, quite, soon, then, there, through, until, upstairs, with and yesterday |
| Verbs | Arrive, blow, bounce, burst, carry, chew, chirp, count, crash, decide, dive, draw, drive, enter, exit, finish, freeze, grunt, hear, help, hide, invite, join, leave, live, mend, pass, please and push |
| Synonyms | Crash-smash, gentle-pleasant, giant-large, grow-cultivate, ill-sick, jog-run, listen-hear, little-small, lucky- fortunate, neat-tidy, puzzle-riddle, sack-bag, stout-fat, true-right, wise-clever and wonder-amaze |
| Antonyms | Angry-rage, begin-finish, care-ignore, create-destroy, dream-reality, last-first, lazy-lively, noise-quiet, remember- forget, right-wrong, sell-buy, separate-combine, short-long, sour-sweet, start-stop and thick-thin |
| Double letter words | Across, between, book, bottle, broom, bubble, cheer, cottage, creek, dinner, floor, fuss, kennel, nineteen, queen, success, village and weed |
CSB Class 3 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
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| Environment | Creature, forest, habitat, herd, insect, plateau, pollution, radish, region, stream, structure, thunder, turnip and vegetable |
| Transport and communication | Adapter, cruise, desktop, dumper, ferry, helicopter, journey, keyboard, laptop, mobile, monitor, railway, ship, steamer and vehicle |
| Body | Activity, muscle and waist |
| Sports | Badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, cricket, hockey, karate and tennis |
| Emotions, requests, apology or greetings | Angry, contempt, contentment, crying, disgust, excitement, fear, happiness, joy, sadness, surprise and trust |
| Quantity | Fortnight, hundred, plenty, thousand, twelve and various |
| Masculine and feminine | Actor-actress, author-authoress, brother-sister, bull-cow, father-mother, gander-goose, gentleman-lady, god-goddess, grandfather-grandmother, hunter-huntress, husband-wife, king-queen, landlord-landlady, lion-lioness, peacock-peahen, prince-princess, son-daughter, tiger-tigress, uncle-aunt and waiter-waitress |
| Prefix | Co(exist, pilot, etc.), dis(honest, like, etc), en(large, case, etc.), in(ability, active, etc.), non(sense, etc.), pre(paid, view, etc.), re(discover, do, etc.), sub(title, etc.), tele(vision, etc.), tri(angle, etc.) and un(friendly, happy, etc.) |
| Suffix (age, ed, ied, ful, ly) | Break(age), cover(age), marr(iage), percent(age), post(age), laugh(ed), talk(ed), walk(ed), carr(ied), hurr(ied), stud(ied), worr(ied), cheer(ful), harm(ful), thank(ful), play(ful), brave(ly), kind(ly), lone(ly), love(ly) and slow(ly) |
| Adjectives | Childish, creeping, curly, destructive, difficult, domestic, enormous, entire, foolish, funny, heavy, interesting, lovely, magnificent, married, mighty, mischievous, playful, plump, precious, separate, silent, silly, slippery, sorry, square, suitable, thick, thirsty, whole and worried |
| Adverbs | Angrily, beautifully, carefully, cheerfully, completely, correctly, definitely, entirely, extremely, fearfully, happily, heavily, lazily, lifelessly, opposite, perhaps, proudly, silently, smoothly, suddenly, surely and totally |
| Verbs | Ache, admire, admit, amuse, annoy, arrange, believe, bore, bother, bounce, burrow, calculate, carve, chase, confuse, congratulate, consist, decide, discuss, disdain, divide, escape, excite, frighten, frown, frustrate, happen, haul, hurt, identify, improve, plunder, pounce, quarrel, receive, require, scold, shake, spoil, squeeze, struggle, suppose, twist, wonder and wriggle |
| Synonyms | Accuse-blame, advantage-benefit, alike-same, ancient-old, annoy-irritate, ask-enquire, buy-purchase, childish-silly, garbage-trash, glitter-shiny, harsh-cruel, precious-valuable, quarrel-fight and rich-wealthy |
| Antonyms | Accuse-defend, artificial – natural, attractive – repulsive, bother-calm, broad – narrow, confess-deny, delicate-hard, flutter-steady, foolish-wise, funny-boring, mighty-delicate, misery-happiness, prevent-allow, scold-praise, spend-save, tiny-big and upset-joyful |
| Compound words | Aeroplane, afternoon, airport, bookshelf, bookstore, bookworm, campfire, candlestick, caveman, downward, haircut, handmade, headache, mailbox, newspaper, suitcase, sunglasses, supermarket, underground, upstream and weekend |
| Words with silent letters | Acquit, autumn, breathe, business, column, communication, debt, doubt, freight, high, honest, hour, knead, knife, knock, know, patient, sigh, sign, stretch, wednesday and whistle |
| Double letter words | Beer, beetle, between, cabbage, cobbler, cooking, crook, cucumber, difference, expression, feed, fellow, freeze, hobby, hood, hooked, indeed, jeep, looked, loose, passenger, pebble, puppet, room, rooster, shallow, sleeve, smooth, street, sweep, tooth, valley, volunteer, wedding, wood and woollen |
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| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Adventure, brownie, building, costume, diagram, dramatist, envelope, feather, feature, gardener, gesture, graduate, librarian, magazine, manual, nursery, phrase, rhythm, scout, shepherd, straight, treasure and triumph |
CSB Class 4 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
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| Education | Academic, alphabet, competition, curriculum, dialogue, discipline, experience, information, instruction, internship, jingle, knowledge, literature, recipient, scholar, scholarship, training and tuition |
| Science and technology | Amphibian, animation, attraction, axis, biodiversity, biosphere, bookmark, compression, creature, cyberspace, deforestation, eclipse, ecology, ecosystem, environment, epicentre, equator, evolution, firewall, genetics, geology, gravity, interface, laboratory, malware, measure, ocean, planet, processor, radiation, renewable, resistor, resource, robotics, rotation, router, satellite, scientific, server and transpiration |
| Clothing | Blanket, slacks and sweatshirt |
| Aquatic life | Dugong, grouper, haddock, halibut, herring, prawn, puffin, seagull, seal and waterweed |
| Occupation | Actress, author, blacksmith, businessman, carpenter, coach, electrician, engineer, fisherman, goldsmith, hairdresser, judge, lawyer, mason, mechanic, narrator, peon, plumber, politician, reporter, scientist, sportsman, surgeon, trainer and wrestler |
| Sports | Archery, baseball, challenge, gymnastics, rugby, skateboarding, swimming, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling |
| Transport and communication | Conveyance, helicopter, motorcycle, roadway, tablet and telephone |
| Abstract nouns | Courage, creativity, curiosity, delight, fearlessness, guilt, innocent, pleasure, pride, quietness, shame and sorrow |
| Prefix | Auto(close, pilot, etc.), dis(obey, respect, etc.), fore(cast, head, etc.), im(port, possible, etc.), in(ability, definite, etc.), mid(life, way, etc.), mis(behave, fortune, understand, etc.), pre(cast, determine, etc.), re(build, call, discover, etc.), semi(automatic, circle, final, etc.), sub(marine, merge, etc.), un(aware, close, conscious, etc.) and uni(directional, lateral, etc.) |
| Suffix (able, al, ance, ant, ence, est, ful, ial, ion, ish, ize, less, ly, st) | Agree(able), accident(al), origin(al), politic(al), accept(ance), perform(ance), account(ant), contest(ant), differ(ence), exist(ence), refer(ence), infer(ence), fast(est), high(est), low(est), delight(ful), financ(ial), part(ial), president(ial), prevent(ion), child(ish), general(ize), modern(ize), hope(less), hopeful(ly), natural(ly), pleasant(ly), adamant(ly), bad(ly) and simple(st) |
| Adjectives | Appropriate, attentive, awake, blind, brief, creative, cruel, delicious, efficient, entire, essential, extraordinary, fluent, greedy, handsome, harsh, heroic, horrible, intelligent, invisible, peculiar, polite, queer, shabby, strange and timid |
| Adverbs | Absolutely, accurately, adoringly, awkwardly, beneath, brutally, certainly, frequently, never, positively, previously, quickly, rapidly, urgently, warmly and wishfully |
| Verbs | Accept, accuse, agree, argue, believe, blame, breathe, buckle, chatter, chirp, communicate, congratulate, consider, debate, discuss, elope, exclaim, gasp, gather, gaze, gleam, graze, hail, irritate, obey, observe, quarrel, rescue, search, shatter, tickle, twirl, understand, verify and whisper |
| Synonyms | Ability-capacity, cease-stop, firm-strong, gather-collect, giggle-laugh, honest-faithful, horrible-terrible, interesting-exciting, mistake-error, opportunity-chance, plenty-abundance, reject-deny, reward-prize, round-circular, sincere-honest, stable-fixed, unfortunate-unlucky, wonderful-amazing and wrong-incorrect |
| Antonyms | Bitter-sweet, decline-accept, defend-harm, definite-indefinite, exterior-interior, fail-succeed, forever-never, fortunate-unfortunate, gloomy-cheerful, greedy-charitable, healthy-diseased, intentional-accidental, merry-serious, patient-agitated, polite-rude, relax-stress, strange-familiar, triumph-fail and ugly-beautiful |
| Compound words | Beehive, blackmail, brainstorm, briefcase, copyright, crossword, earthquake, farmhouse, farmyard, father-in-law, fingerprint, french fry, full moon, hillside, ice cream, moonlight, notebook, raincoat, real estate, thunderstorm, toothpaste, video game, waistcoat and wonderland |
| Words with silent letters | Ballet, bridge, champagne, colleague, column, edge, foreign, grudge, guard, heir, island, knit, knot, length, neighbour, often, receipt, strength, though, tongue and wrist |
| Double letter words | Across, button, clatter, gossip, hurry, illicit, lagoon, loot, mammal, messy, offend, possible, programme, saddle, seepage, spree, summary, syllabus and tariff |
| Masculine and feminine | Bachelor-maid, bridegroom-bride, dog-bitch, drake-duck, drone-bee, duke-duchess, emperor-empress, heir-heiress, hero-heroine, horse-mare, host-hostess, master-mistress, nephew-niece, poet-poetess, policeman-policewoman, priest-priestess, widower-widow and wizard-witch |
| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Accommodation, address, admittance, ancestor, anxiety, aquarium, bachelor, beginning, committee, computer, disappoint, necessary, plentiful, safety and trespass |
CSB Class 5 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
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| STEM words | Appliance, astronomy, atmosphere, broadcasting, canyon, celestial, communication, cosmic, cosmogony, cosmography, crust, degradation, density, electricity, equipment, erosion, extinct, gadget, galaxy, glacier, gravitation, joystick, landmass, livelihood, loam, magma, membrane, microscope, organism, oxygen, revolution, species, toxic, visual and wildlife |
| Household items | Bedding, blanket, blender, blower, bookcase, ceiling, conditioner, dryer, geyser, mattress, microwave, refrigerator and utensil |
| Agriculture | Agronomy, biofuel, breeding, cereal, decomposition, domestication, drought, fertilizer, gardening, harvest, insecticide, peasant, plantation, poultry and textile |
| Government affairs | Account, allegiance, article, balance, ballot, budget, cabinet, census, chronicle, chronology, constitution, coordination, court, executive, freedom, judiciary, legislative, liberty, parliament, president, procedure, resemble and strategy |
| Occupation | Accountant, architect, assistant astronomer, beautician, carpenter, chauffeur, engineer firefighter, hairdresser, historian, journalist, magician and musician |
| Words from Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Appetite, bouquet, brace, catalogue, complicate, considerate, disappoint, dismantle, embarrass, extinguisher, journal, popularity, ridiculous, scramble, scratch and worthless |
| Prefix | Anti(biotic, dote, etc.), de(escalate, frost, value, etc.), il(legal, logical, etc.), im(possible, etc.), ir(responsible, etc.), mono(chrome, tone, etc.), pre(determine, fix, etc.), re(affirm, discover, turn, etc.), semi(circle, final, etc.), super(star, etc.), trans(port, etc.) and tri(cycle, etc.) |
| Suffix (able, age, al, ant, ate, cy, en, ful, ian, ic, ion) | Prevent(able), pilgrim(age), wreck(age), nature(al), vigil(ant), affection(ate), accurate(cy), candidate(cy), strength(en), wonder(ful), library(ian), magic(ian), alcohol(ic), workahol(ic), create(ion) and narrate(ion) |
| Adjectives | Abandoned, absolute, adjacent, aggressive, aggressive, ancient, apparent, approximate, approximate, ashamed, attractive, available, baggy, bare, biodegradable, boisterous, bountiful, brilliant, caring, challenging, comfortable, continent, convenient, cosmic, courageous, courteous, devastated, disposable, disposable, equivalent, excellent, excited, extinct, faithful, feeble, frigid, generous, gigantic, gigantic, grateful, hilarious, impatient, imperative, impressive, inappropriate, incredible, industrious, loyal, medicinal, miniature, noble, primitive, realistic, return, savage, shrewd, slender, solitary, stern, sustainable, thrifty, transparent, unique and wealthy |
| Adverbs | Adoringly, awkwardly, clumsily, competitively, decisively, easily, everywhere, normally, really, regularly, repeatedly, sometimes, terribly, timidly and usually |
| Abstract nouns | Amusement, anger, contentment, courage, embarrassment, excitement, guilt, laughter, relief and sentiment |
| Verbs | Abdicate, accelerate, accustom, acknowledge, acquit, affirm, amend, astound, behold, besiege, blaze, bother, contaminate, emerge, encourage, ensure, escalate, evade, exasperate, exhibit glitter, grizzle, hinder, illuminate, intrigue, prohibit, recognize, repudiate, revive, sparkle, stare, sympathize and wander |
| Synonyms | Admit-confess, alike-same, artisan-craftsman, barren-infertile, blunder-mistake, bruise-injury, coarse-rough, continue-progress, create-invent, crumble-collapse, delicious-tasty, depart-leave, elegant-graceful, fascinate-attract, fierce-violent, grumpy-irritable, humble-respectful, insight-perception, mirth-happiness, obedient-respectful, plunder-protect, religious-spiritual, significance-importance and thrill-excitement |
| Antonyms | Artificial-natural, ascend-descend, attractive-repulsive, beautiful-ugly, bitter-sweet, bravery-cowardice, brighten-fade, broad-narrow, bully-boost, clumsy-graceful, command-assist, cruel-compassionate, frighten-comfort, hinder-allow, protest-agree, regard-ignore, studious-lethargic, plump-skinny, tempt-discourage and tremble-calm |
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| Compound words | Babysitter, backstage, backtrack, barefoot, basketball brainstorm, campfire, candlestick, chairperson, championship, cornmeal, countdown, counterpart, courtyard, crossover, daredevil, dashboard, dishwasher, eardrum, fingernail, flowerpot, guard rail, lighthouse, meanwhile, pancake, popcorn, roommate, skateboard, somewhere, spokesperson, therefore and underdog |
| Homonyms & homophones | Accept-except, addition-edition, allowed-aloud, ate-eight, bale-bail, band-bend, break-brake, ceiling-sealing, cellar-seller, cell-sell, cite-site, dear-deer, die-dye, dual-duel, fair-fare and new-knew |
| Words with silent letters | Align, ascend, assign, autumn, badge, campaign, Christmas, crescent, cupboard, design, edge, foreign, hustle, kneel, knob, psychology, resign, wreck and wrinkle |
| Double letter words | Annual, append, baggage, broom, deed, errand, esteem, heed, hull, immune, juggle, luggage, rugged and savvy |
| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Achievement, catastrophe, compassion, description, etiquette, guardian, isthmus, mischief, mosquito, orchestra, repetition, restaurant, sanctuary, trumpet and variety |
CSB Class 6 Syllabus
| Topic | Words |
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| STEM words | Agrarian, apiculture, artery, bone, cartilage, conservation, conversation, cowshed, cultivation, cultivator, deforestation, equipment, exploitation, farmland, femur, ferry, fishery, freight, funnel, galaxy, gland, haulage, horticulture, husbandry, immunology, intestine, irrigation, kidney, ligament, liver, livestock, logistics, malnutrition, manure, measure, meteorology, nerve, observatory, pancreas, pasture, peninsula, pesticide, petroleum, pipette, plateau, plough, pollution, portable, preservation, printer, sandpaper, scanner, seismology, shipment, shuttle, skeleton, skull, spleen, stylus, telecommunication, tissue and vertebrate |
| Professionals/Doctors | Anaesthesiologist, cardiologist, collector, dermatologist, gynaecologist, mathematician, nephrologist, neurologist, obstetrician, ocularist, oncologist, ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, pastor, paediatrician, pharmacist, professor, psychiatrist, radiologist, receptionist, veterinarian and waitress |
| Government and economy | Amendment, census, citizenship, debt, defence, demonstration, document, election, electorate, executive, government, representative and troupe |
| Education | Guidance, literacy, pedagogy, progress, schooling, vocabulary and vocation |
| Words from Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Blubber, campaign, demonstrate, extinguisher, gimmick, Halloween, intelligence, legitimate, neighbourhood, pretzel, sarcastic, treasurer and underneath |
| Prefix | Ante(date, etc.), de(motivate, etc.), dis(integrate, etc.), epi(dermis, etc.), fore(word, etc.), hyper(active, etc.), im(patient, etc.), main(land, etc.), mis(interpret, etc.), omni(potent, etc.), para(dox, etc.), re(unite, etc.), semi(conscious, etc.), sub(merge, etc.), thermo(meter, etc.), under(graduate, etc.) and up(bringing, etc.) |
| Suffix (acy, al, ary, gamy, hood, ial, ist, ment, and ship) | Fall(acy), accident(al), fiction(al), region(al), second(ary), poly(gamy), child(hood), mother(hood), editor(ial), hero(ism), art(ist), accomplish(ment), refine(ment) and scholar(ship) |
| Adjectives | Burning, cautious, challenging, clumsy, comfortable, crowded, cunning, curious, dangerous, distinguished, fabulous, faithful, federal, fundamental, gaseous, generous, handsome, hilarious, numerous, obstinate, onward, popular, powerful, precious, proclaim, professional, splendid, squeaky, unitary and unsustainable |
| Adverbs | Abruptly, absolutely, almost, anxiously, deliberately, diligently, financially, horribly, lifelessly, occasionally, patiently, randomly, savagely, seldom, sometime, upwards and willingly |
| Abstract nouns | Disgust and gratitude |
| Verbs | Accommodate, anticipate, appoint, conquer, crackle, crouch, evaporate, exaggerate, falter, guarantee, hammer, harness, immigrate, interrupt, license, mesmerise, mumble, quiver, respite, snore, sprinkle, sprout, straggle, vanquish and wreathe |
| Synonyms | Bewilder-perplex, conscious-aware, disciple-follower, embellish-decorate, fatigue-tiredness, gratitude-thankful, humility-humble, persuade-convince, scatter-disperse and unlucky-unfortunate |
| Antonyms | Afflict-please, applaud-blame, compulsory-voluntary, courage-cowardice, courteous-discourteous, embarrass-delight, generous-stingy, important-trivial and servile-dominant |
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| Compound words | Backspace, farmhouse, farmyard, framework, full moon, gallstone, gearshift, headquarters, honeycomb, moreover, superego, undercharge, undercover and widespread |
| Homonyms & homophones | Alter-altar, compliment- complement, course-coarse, elicit-illicit, eminent-imminent, flower-flour, grown-groan, hoarse-horse, loan-lone, match-match, meddle-medal, meet-meat, pale-pail, peace-piece, principle-principal and weak-week |
| Words with silent letters | Apostle, circuit, colonel, consign, diaphragm, feign, gnaw, hedge, hymn, knuckle, pneumonia, raspberry, wrestle and yolk |
| Double letter words | Allegiance, applaud, battalion, battalion, brilliant, dissolve, illusion, illustration, obsession, occasion, occult, seer, skiing, strolling, summit, unforgettable, upkeep and webbed |
| Evil words (words likely to be spelt incorrectly) | Gaggle, obstacle, optimism, precipitation, renaissance, scrubber and shoal |
CSB Class 7 Syllabus
- Section 1
All the words for Level 1 and Level 2 will be from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin book.
- Section 2
It’s a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words.
This section will be based on the words from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin.
Class 8 Syllabus
- Section 1
All the words for Level 1 and Level 2 will be from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin’s book.
- Section 2
It’s a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words.
This section will be based on the words from High School English Grammar and Composition from Wren and Martin.
Other CREST Olympiad Exams
| CREST Mathematics Olympiad (CMO) |
| CREST English Olympiad (CEO) |
| CREST Reasoning Olympiad (CRO) |
| CREST Cyber Olympiad (CCO) |
| CREST Science Olympiad (CSB) |
| CREST International Spell Bee (CSBW) |
Frequently Asked Questions on CSB 2022
Q1
Who is eligible to compete in the CREST Olympiads?
Students in grades 1 to 10 are able to apply for Level 1. Students in grades 3 to 10 who pass the level 1 English, Maths, and Science olympiads are eligible to take the Level 2 test.
Q2
What is the location of the CREST Olympiad exams?
The CREST Olympiads are online tests that students may take from the comfort of their own homes using a functional laptop, desktop, or tablet with an adequate internet connection.
Q3
What is the fee of each subject in the Olympiad?
For students studying and enrolling from India, the test fee for each subject is Rs. 225 for grades Prep/KG and 1 to 10. The fee is (US Dollars) for students studying and staying outside of India. Two (2) online practice exams are included in the charge (not mandatory).
