Spelling Guidelines

Each church / school is allowed to enter 3 students, male or female, per Division.

Each participant is given a sheet of paper and is assigned a desk. Pencils will be provided. The Judge will pronounce each word twice and give a definition for the word. Participants will then write the word. Each participant will write all the words. Following the final word, the Judge will collect all the papers.

Each word must be spelled exactly as it appears on the official Student Convention Spelling List assigned for that year. Each list will be regularly rotated.

Those participants with a score of 95 - 100 will receive a gold. Participants with a final score of 90 - 94 will receive a silver and those with a final score of 85 – 89 will receive a bronze. All those with a score below 85 will receive the score they earned but will not receive a ribbon.

Those scoring below 78 will receive an automatic 77 participation mark.