DAILY BUZZ: Some bullets:
"The Semifinals Test has 26 multiple choice items divided in four sections, with spellers identifying their responses on Scantron test forms. A speller receives one point for each of the 12 items identified correctly in the Round Four Spelling section, one point for each of the 12 items identified correctly in the Round Four Vocabulary section, three points for a correct answer to the single item in the Round Five Vocabulary section, and three points for a correct answer to the single item in the Round Six Vocabulary section.
"During the morning of Thursday, May 28 the Bee will email Semifinals Test score reports to Semifinalist spellers and their parents."
added: Vox talks to Nupur Lala, Uncle Spike, and three former winners who don't sometimes show up here to talk about the Bee.
I know it would take forever to do the Bee the old-fashioned way, where kids spell on stage till there's one left, but the multiple written tests and points system seems very complicated. When I was in the 1986 Bee, all I had to worry about was spelling--all the other stuff would have made me far more anxious than I already was!
ReplyDeleteThere are other possibilities. Divide them into groups at the start, spelling in parallel. I've seen that in regional bees.
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