MaRRS Spelling Bee
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MaRRS Spelling Bee is a Spelling Bee
competition held in Asia for school children. It is conducted by MaRRS Intellectual Services and uses Pearson Longman Dictionaries as their reference material. The objective of the competition is to enhance the spelling and literary skills of children by encouraging them to explore the English language, expand their vocabulary and improve their communication and comprehension skills.
on April 17th2007.
Arjun B Nair from Infant Jesus School, Kerala
, was the first overall champion.
and Dubai
. Twenty students from the Dubai Center and sixty students from the Indian Center qualified for the final round. Shivani Nirgudkar of Thakur Public School, Mumbai was adjudged as the best performer of the competition.
, Jumbled Letters, Word Application, Crossword
, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs. The oral rounds involve Spell It(students spell the words until they make mistakes), pronunciation
, and finally Antonyms and Synonyms round.
Spelling bee
A spelling bee is a competition where contestants, usually children, are asked to spell English words. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States....
competition held in Asia for school children. It is conducted by MaRRS Intellectual Services and uses Pearson Longman Dictionaries as their reference material. The objective of the competition is to enhance the spelling and literary skills of children by encouraging them to explore the English language, expand their vocabulary and improve their communication and comprehension skills.
Competition
The competition was started in 2003, and now over 300000 students from more than 1000 schools participate in the competition annually.First International Championship
The First International Championship was conducted in MumbaiMumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
on April 17th2007.
Arjun B Nair from Infant Jesus School, Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
, was the first overall champion.
Second International Championship
The Second International Championship was conducted on 8 November 2009 at two venues, DelhiDelhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
and Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
. Twenty students from the Dubai Center and sixty students from the Indian Center qualified for the final round. Shivani Nirgudkar of Thakur Public School, Mumbai was adjudged as the best performer of the competition.
Third International Championship
The Third International Championship was held at Nexus International School, Malaysia. Aditi.D.Joshi of Manovikas School, Goa (India), was the best performer of the year.The Fourth International Championship
The Fourth International Championship will be held at Abudhabi.Rounds and Levels
The competition begins from the school level and moves on to the Inter School, State, National and finally to the International Level. The students are divided into six categories based on their grades at school. They face written and oral rounds. The written rounds are rounds such as DictationDictation
Dictation can refer to:*Dictation , when one person speaks while another person transcribes what is spoken.*A dictation machine, a device used to record speech for transcription....
, Jumbled Letters, Word Application, Crossword
Crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer...
, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs. The oral rounds involve Spell It(students spell the words until they make mistakes), pronunciation
Pronunciation
Pronunciation refers to the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
, and finally Antonyms and Synonyms round.