Guidelines and Mechanics for

Spelling Bee Competition Spelling Bee Mechanics

Call time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: CSJS Gymnasium

All contestants have to be in the designated venue on and before 1:00p.m.

Attendance checking of the participants will start at 1:00 p.m.

Conduct Code
 The participants and spectators are expected to display politeness,
courteousness, patience, respect towards others, honesty and
good sportsmanship during the Spelling Bee Competition.

SPELLING COMPETITION
There are two (2) phases of the Spelling Competition: Elimination Round and
Final round.

I. ELIMINATION ROUND
1. Participants must provide pen and writing
sheets during this phase. The monitor will
collect the writing sheets after the Arbitrator
checks the spelling of every contestant.
2. There will be three rounds: easy, average, and
difficult.
3. There will be 10 words to be given for each
round by the Bee Master.
4. The Bee Master will pronounce each word
twice and give an aid to word identification.
Countdown will start after the word has been
pronounced the second time by the Bee
Master.
5. Contestants will be given a maximum of 20
seconds to simultaneously write the word on
the writing sheet provided.
6. Those who spelled seven (7) to ten (10) words
correctly will continue in the Bee, while those
who correctly spelled only six (6) words
correctly will be eliminated from the round

II. FINAL ROUND

 1. When the participants are reduced to ten (10), participants will not be
allowed to write the word upon spelling it but he/she has to spell it
orally. Every round, each contestant will pick up his/her own word to be
spelled among the rolled papers provided and give it to the Bee Master.
2. The Bee Master will pronounced the word, identify the part of speech and
use it in a sentence or use it in the sentence.
3. The contestant, in 30 seconds, will then pronounces the word, spell the
word, and pronounce the word again.
4. The Head Judge will have the responsibility for stopping the student if
she fails to pronounce the word.
5. The participants must:
 Pronounce the word before the spelling
 Look at the Bee Master when spelling the word.
 Speak clearly and loudly.
6. If the students still begins to spell without pronouncing the word, he/she
will be disqualified from the contest.
7. The participants shall have 10 seconds from the time he/she pronounces
the word until he/she must begin spelling the word.
8. Once the participant begins spelling the word, he/she will have now the
30 seconds time to complete the spelling the word.
9.
10.
11. Having started to spell a word, a student may stop and start over,
retracing the spelling from the beginning. However, in retracing there can
be no change of letters and their sequence from those first pronounced. If
any letter and/or their sequence are changed in the spelling, the speller
will be disqualified.
12. When the participant misspells a word, he/she immediately drops
out of the contest. The pattern will continue until one of the contestants
is declared as champion.

CAUTION
 No talking will be allowed among participants
or between participants and the member of
the audience.
 If a participant receives assistance from
anyone in the audience, he/she will be
disqualified.

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