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National Vocabulary Championship
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:36 pm
by MarleysGh0st
BBs with high schoolers might be interested in this article from tvgameshows.net:
High school students, put your word hats on. Qualifying is underway through Nov. 30 for GSN's second annual National Vocabulary Championship.
First step: go to winwithwords.com. Take the online national qualifying exam.
Top scorers advance to a regional in-person exam. The top 42 finishers from the regional will compete in the NVC finals and battle for a chance at a $40,000 college scholarship.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:06 pm
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
Kids who do well in bees are usually home-schooled and can spend all of their time studying lists.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:31 pm
by Shade
My brother took the online test, he is still in High School. He is really good with vocabulary so maybe he'll make it.
Re: National Vocabulary Challenge
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:53 pm
by Kazoo65
This sounds like the sort of thing I would have enjoyed, had it been around when I was in school. My 9th grade English teacher did a vocabulary bee at the end of the year-guess who was the last kid standing????
We were given a new list of words every week, and we had to be able to spell and define them. We were tested every Friday on that week's words.
To this day, when "Vocabulary" comes up as a category on J!, I will usually recognize many of the words.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:20 pm
by Shade
I'm good with vocabulary too, I wish college students were elligeable. I would love to win 40,000 dollars toward my college tuition
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:23 am
by peacock2121
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Kids who do well in bees are usually home-schooled and can spend all of their time studying lists.
Can you say more about this?
I am interested in what you see as the difference between the two kinds of students and the time spent on various things.
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:46 am
by TheCalvinator24
Shade wrote:I'm good with vocabulary too, I wish college students were elligeable. I would love to win 40,000 dollars toward my college tuition
Vocabulary? Maybe
Spelling? Not so much.
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:10 am
by Shade
TheCalvinator24 wrote:Shade wrote:I'm good with vocabulary too, I wish college students were elligeable. I would love to win 40,000 dollars toward my college tuition
Vocabulary? Maybe
Spelling? Not so much.
So true, I am great at remember what words mean but not how they are spelled. I don't know why
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:58 am
by peacock2121
Shade wrote:TheCalvinator24 wrote:Shade wrote:I'm good with vocabulary too, I wish college students were elligeable. I would love to win 40,000 dollars toward my college tuition
Vocabulary? Maybe
Spelling? Not so much.
So true, I am great at remember what words mean but not how they are spelled. I don't know why
Proper verb tenses need work as well.