For purposes of preparation, contestants need the following study materials:
1) Bee-liever's Handbook (see options below under Bee-liever's Handbook)
2) Bible Bee Quiz Cards
3) Corrections/Adjustments to Contest Material
Access Options:You may purchase the Bee-liever's Handbook and Bible Bee Quiz Cards from the Bible Bee Print Shop. Alternatively, you may select to download these materials for free and print them at home or at a local copy store.
What to Study
The Bee-liever’s Handbook lists a total of 350 Bible Memory Questions (Categories One through Three contain 100 Bible Memory Questions each; Category Four contains 50 Bible Memory Questions) and 200 Bible Knowledge Questions (100 each for Categories One and Two). Guidance as to what should be studied in preparation for the Bible Knowledge Questions from Categories Three and Four is included as well.
Contestants in the Primary Age Group (ages 7–10) will only be asked questions from Categories One through Three; Junior and Senior Age contestants should prepare to answer questions from all four difficulty categories. Each test/round will consist of approximately 50% Bible Memory Questions and 50% Bible Knowledge Questions.
What to Study
The Bee-liever’s Handbook lists a total of 350 Bible Memory Questions (Categories One through Three contain 100 Bible Memory Questions each; Category Four contains 50 Bible Memory Questions) and 200 Bible Knowledge Questions (100 each for Categories One and Two). Guidance as to what should be studied in preparation for the Bible Knowledge Questions from Categories Three and Four is included as well.
Contestants in the Primary Age Group (ages 7–10) will only be asked questions from Categories One through Three; Junior and Senior Age contestants should prepare to answer questions from all four difficulty categories. Each test/round will consist of approximately 50% Bible Memory Questions and 50% Bible Knowledge Questions.
The Bible Bee Quiz Cards are the other important part of the contestant study materials. As mentioned before, the passages that make up every Bible Memory Question are printed on cards. In addition, all 200 Category 1-2 Bible Knowledge Questions will be published in card form as well. These questions are accompanied by the correct answers, but the cards do not provide the distracters that will be used with the questions as part of the competition.
Question Allocations for Age Groups and Contests
As we have heard from you and contestant families about the challenge of memorizing the large amount of information included in the National Bible Bee Competition, we decided to create a table that would clearly explain the content that will be used by different age groups as part of the Local and National Contests. Contestants who are not attempting to qualify for the National Contest may choose to focus solely on the categories listed under Local Contest; those who are hoping to be part of the National Contest are encouraged to first master the content required for the Local Contest and with the time left over to continue on to work on the content they can expect to see at the National Contest.
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Primary Mini-Bee |
Bible Knowledge Questions: Category One Bible Memory Questions (Passages): Fifty Category One passages |
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Primary Age |
Bible Knowledge Questions: Categories One - Three*, Bonus Bible Memory Questions (Passages): Categories One - Two |
Bible Knowledge Questions: Categories One - Three, Bonus Bible Memory Questions: Categories One - Three |
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Junior Age |
Bible Knowledge Questions: Categories One - Four, Bonus Bible Memory Questions (Passages): Categories One - Three |
Bible Knowledge Questions: Categories One - Four, Bonus Bible Memory Questions: Categories One - Four |
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Senior Age |
Bible Knowledge Questions: Categories One - Four, Bonus Bible Memory Questions (Passages): Categories One - Three |
Bible Knowledge Questions: Categories One - Four, Bonus Bible Memory Questions: Categories One - Four |
*Bible Knowledge Questions in Categories Three and Four are both derived from the six books of the Bible and their associated introductions (found in the Bee-liever’s Handbook) that contestants and their families are studying: Genesis, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Matthew, Acts, and Romans. They may also be drawn from “How to Study the Bible for Yourself,” (also located in the Bee-liever’s Handbook). Bible questions that are identified as being developmentally appropriate for younger contestants will be labeled Category Three and will be included on Primary Age tests (as well as appearing on the Junior and Senior level tests).
Bonus Questions
Bonus questions will be asked on both written and oral tests and will not be included in the Bee-liever’s Handbook. They will be comprised only of Bible Knowledge Questions. These questions will tend to be much harder to answer than the regular questions in each category and may come from any book of the Bible. The purpose of having Bonus Questions is to increase the likelihood of a wider spread of scores, thus minimizing the potential of a large group of contestants receiving the exact same scores.
1) Bee-liever's Handbook
The Bible Bee study guide is called the Bee-liever's Handbook. You may use the same guide for all three age groups. It contains four difficulty categories for Bible Memory Questions and Bible Knowledge Questions.These four categories will be the source for all contest questions and the number of questions from each category will be proportioned according to the age group of the contestant.
To Purchase Pre-Assembled Materials
To Download and Assemble
Printing Suggestions:
Consider printing one copy of the entire handbook for adult use. If you have more than one contestant enrolled in the Bible Bee and want all of them to have their own copies of the study materials, we recommend that you make one copy of the Full Version and duplicate multiple copies of the Study Materials Only Version.
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Despite our best efforts, it has been necessary to make some corrections to the Bible Bee study materials that you have received. Please note: In the event that we discover errors on quiz cards that could mislead or cause a contestant to answer incorrectly, we will eliminate those questions from our pool of test questions.
Reading Acrobat PDFs: All of the downloads are formatted as PDFs. If you do not have the ability to read and print PDFs, we recommend that you download Acrobat Reader, a free program that will enable you to read many of the electronic files that we will be sending your way, including the Bee-liever’s Handbook. You may download Acrobat Reader from the following link: http://get.adobe.com/reader/.
Study materials are formatted so they may be printed in black and white. To conserve on paper, you may consider printing the Bee-liever's Handbook as a double-sided document. If you desire, you may save the downloadable files on a flash drive and take them to a local copy shop for printing.
Got your Bee-liever's Handbook? Now let's move on to access your Bible Bee Quiz Cards…
2) Bible Bee Quiz Cards
These cards contain all of the Bible memory passages (Categories One through Four) that are part of this year’s competition and all of the Bible Knowledge questions and answers in Categories One and Two. (Please note: Bible Knowledge Questions in Categories Three and Four and Bonus Questions are not published). Quiz cards covering Bible Knowledge questions are universal, but Bible Memory Quiz Cards are availablein five versions.While enrolling online, contestantsidentifiedoneof five Bible versions to use when memorizing Scripture (King James Version, New King James Version, New American Standard Version, the New International Version, and the English Standard Version). It is very important that the correct version of the quiz cardsis downloaded.
Please Note: Because of the slight variations within different copyrights of the selected Bible versions, Bible Bee Headquarters will exclusively refer to the Bible text provided on these free downloadable quiz cards as the basis for judging memorization questions in all of its contests, both Local and National. Therefore it is critically important that contestants always memorize from these quiz cards while preparing for the competition.
To Purchase Pre-Assembled Materials
Bible Bee Quiz Cards may be ordered from the Bible Bee Print Shop.
To Download and Assemble
Printing Suggestions:
For each Bible version, the download includes both Bible Memory and Bible Knowledge Quiz Cards. The final sheets in each file contain optional card backs that we recommend you print on the different Categories of cards to keep them from being mixed up. You may, of course,choose to print only the content side and leave the backsides blank.
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Cards may be printed on copy paper or on cardstock to enhance durability.
Select the appropriate version to download from the choices below.
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Corrections/Adjustments to Contest Material Separating the Cards:
Cutting the cards apart can be time-consuming. Consider cutting one sheet of verses apart and having your contestants learn a sheet of cards at a time. Once a sheet of cards has been mastered, a second sheetcanbe cut apart. This technique can yield a double benefit of accelerating the contestant’s learning while spreading out the work load. And of course, older contestants should be quite able to cut apart their own cards!
Storing and Carrying the Cards:
Bible Memory passages grow in length by Category, which means that the cards must grow in size as well. You will find that the Bible Knowledge Cards and the Category One Bible Memory cards are the same size; Category Two Bible Memory cards are twice as long as Category One cards, so when they are folded in half, they are the same size and can be easily carried around together. Category Four cards are twice the size of Category Three cards; when folded in half, they are the same size as Category Three cards and can be carried around together.
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