A fun and challenging experience for participants to showcase their knowledge and skills in English.
English Competition
Aims, Scope and Content
The Young Master Challenge’s English Competition offers international students a unique opportunity for holistic growth, encompassing cultural, emotional, academic, social, and spiritual dimensions. This growth is fostered within a stimulating and challenging learning environment that promotes structured and purposeful English language practice at an appropriate level.
Emphasising the value of spoken language, the competition focuses on enhancing students’ cognitive, social, and linguistic development. Through reading, writing, and confident speaking, students learn to articulate their understanding of texts and visual literature while developing solid foundations in communication.
Comprehension skills, rooted in vocabulary, grammar, and global awareness, are nurtured through engaging conversations, real-world scenarios, and discussions on diverse topics and resources. Encouraging wide-ranging reading, the competition aims to instil a love for literature, expand knowledge, and cultivate curiosity in students.
Additionally, the Young Master Challenge provides natural opportunities for vocabulary expansion, promoting clarity, audience awareness, purposeful communication, and proficiency in figurative language usage from the target vocabulary list.
Effective composition, encompassing idea formation, expression, and logical organisation, is also a vital aspect of the competition, ensuring students can effectively communicate their thoughts to diverse audiences.
Age Categories
Resources, tests and challenges are designed to be suitable for the age categories.
Online Knowledge Test
10 Questions (2 Marks each)
10 Questions (3 Marks each)
10 Questions (5 Marks each)
The Knowledge Test will consist of a set of multiple-choice, single and multiple-entry questions on a range of vocabulary, verbal reasoning, comprehension, character and scene analysis based on topics and resources shared with the participants before the test. The depth of knowledge, vocabulary and comprehension will be convenient for the age categories.
Participants will have 60 mins to complete 30 questions, which will have three levels of difficulty and each level will have different weighing to contribute to the final score of 100.
2025-2026 Resources for Little Bees
Frindle
Shiloh
Focus Value: Honesty
2025-2026 Resources for Honeybees
The Wednesday Wars
Akeelah and the Bee
Focus Value: Honesty
2025-2026 Resources for Bumblebees
Movies, Books and Focus Value Resources
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gifted Hands
Focus Value: Honesty
Global Final - Paper Based Challenges
These challenges will be done individually on paper and the team score will be calculated collaboratively. They may include multiple-choice or single-entry questions.
Reading Bee
Writing Bee
Global Final - Live Challenges
These challenges will be done as a team in front of the judges/audience either against time or a challenging team.