HOUSE RULES
1. Participants are expected to attend the contest orientation and dry – run on September 4, 2021.
2. All participants are expected to go online an hour before the quiz bee, and are already in the zoom 30 room 30 minutes before.
3. The rules and mechanics must BE STRICTLY OBSERVED on the day of the quiz bee.
4. Use of and electronic gadgets or anything that can cause cheating during the quiz bee is prohibited.
5. For the duration of the quiz bee, each participant should stay in a private (quite and undisturbed) room. Only the participant can stay in the said room and should not be accompanied by anyone.
6. Participants should be always facing their cameras throughout the contest, capturing and showing the upper half of their body.
7. Under no circumstances should the participants turn off or set their microphone on mute.( to make sure that no one will coach the participants)
8. No one is allowed to go outside of their private rooms once the quiz bee has started, unless official breaks are called by the Quiz assigned personnel.
9. Non-compliance to the rules would result to automatic disqualification from the quiz bee.
MECHANICS
1. The quiz bee has three rounds: EASY, AVERAGE, and DIFFICULT.
2. Questions of Quiz bee will come from the following areas:
a. Biology
b. Computer Science
c. Chemistry
d. Physics
e.Environmental Science
3. The online quiz bee will be held on September 6, 2021 via Google Meet at 9:30 AM. Participants must enter Google classroom 30 minutes before the scheduled time.
4. Participants will have to use either one of the following: desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. Participants must have their own internet or data connection and must have their camera and microphone open throughout the quiz bee.
5. Each participant must have a white board/illustration board/bond papers, markers/chalks, and paper and pens.
6. Each participant will start zero score at the start of easy round. The accumulation of points all throughout the quiz bee will be cumulative.
7. The quiz bee Personnel will read each of the questions twice. The questions will be also presented via power point presentation and shall be pinned by all participants in the google classroom.
8. All participants will have to wait for the signal from the Quiz Personnel before answering the questions.
9. When time is up, the participants will be asked to raise their boards or paper to show their answers to their cameras. Participants can only show up and bring down their boards or papers upon instruction of the Quiz Personnel.
10. Questions and protest from participants regarding the answer to the items will be entertained. If a protest shall arise, the participants may raise their complaints to the quiz personnel, and will be forwarded to the Board of Judges. Questions and Protests must be forwarded before the next question is read; otherwise they will be considered invalid. The decision of the board of Judges are always final.
11. At the end of the EASY ROUND, the Top 50% (rounded to the nearest whole number) of the participants will be qualified for the Average Round. After the Average Round, only the TOP 3 participants will proceed to the Difficult and Final Round. Tabulation of scores will be given after every question.
12. In a case of tie, a clincher round will be given. Participants are allowed to write down their answers immediately while the question is being read. Each question in the clincher round is good for one minute only. Once a participant answers correctly, the other participant will automatically be eliminated. Clincher Round will however continue if none of the participants correctly answered the question.
13. The organizers reserve the right to change all rules and guideline for this event without prior notice.
Here's the link for registration.