Guidelines to gurus in organizing an interactive Quiz:
The Gurus can organise Quiz, after completing a topic (eg. Life of Young Sai), in order to test their understanding. Children may be intimated well in advance, to ensure good preparation on their part.
- Monthly or Quarterly, including all the topics covered during that period.
- Prior to Balvikas Examinations, by way of revising the entire syllabus, thereby boosting their confidence.
- District level Summer Camps where good exposure can be given to them.
Preparatory work:
- The guru must have a Question Bank ready with several types of interesting Questions falling under different categories. For eg.
- One-word Answers
- MCQs
- Yes/No
- Rapid fire
- Dumb Charade
- Audio Clippings
- Visuals etc.
- Next, a time keeper and a score recorder must be there.
- Materials like sheets, pens, white board to display the scores, stopwatch, bell etc must be kept ready.
- Audio visual aids.
- Seating arrangements for the different teams (4 or 5 teams) and those conducting the Quiz.
Balvikas guru must decide:
- The duration of the Quiz (30 to 40 min).
- Total number of rounds (say, 10: Five clockwise and five anti clockwise rounds is the common practice.)
- Category for each round (eg. Audio round/ visual round).
- The number of questions. Suppose, if there are 5 teams, each round must consist of 5 questions. It is advisable to keep one or two extra questions!.