"Power Round" (Participants in the Elementary Division don’t take this round) The Power Round will be administered with no prior indication of its nature. The test will be very difficult and should be taken by well-prepared students. It will be CLOSED-BIBLE. There is no special registration; just be present ten minutes early.
Possible Score: 50 Round Time: 25 minutes
Round 1 "Find the Verse" (For all participants) Using OPEN BIBLES, participants will locate, by giving chapter and verse numbers, forty (40) quotations drawn from the assigned text of the Bible. (Quotation marks are not required. ANY reference from the text may be used. We consider these to be quotations or references since we are quoting the text itself.) Single words will not be cited.
Possible Score: 40 Round Time: 25 minutes
Round 2 "Fact Finder" (For all participants) Using OPEN BIBLES, participants will answer forty (40) multiple-choice questions by marking one of three multiple-choice answers.
Possible Score: 40 Round Time: 20 minutes
Round 3 "Identification" (For all participants) Using OPEN BIBLES, participants will, by marking one of five multiple-choice answers, identify forty (40) items (persons, places, things, times, numbers, etc.)
Possible Score: 40 Round Time: 20 minutes
Round 4 "Know the Chapter - Quotations" (For all participants) WITHOUT USING BIBLES, participants will locate, by chapter number only, forty (40) quotations from the assigned text of the Bible. (Quotations may be drawn from narrative or discourse. Quotation marks are not required. ANY reference from the text may be used. We consider these to be quotations or references since we are quoting the text itself.) Single words will not be cited.
Possible Score: 40 Round Time: 15 minutes
Round 5 "Know the Chapter - Headings and Events" (For all participants) WITHOUT USING BIBLES, participants will locate, by chapter number only, forty (40) general descriptions or subject headings of particular sections of Scripture.